USA
Billboard Report (excerpt)
'Choosin' Texas' No.1 for record-extending 26th week
Tuesday, November 3, 2026
by Keith Caulfield & Gary Trust, Los Angeles

Ella Langley's “Choosin’ Texas” continues for a record-extending 26th week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Released on Sawgood / Columbia Records, totaled 19.2 million official

streams (down 4% week over week), 57.8 million radio airplay audience impressions (down 1%) and 3,000 sold (down 5%) in the United States Oct. 23-29. The single rebounds 4-2 following a record-tying 26 weeks atop the Streaming Songs chart; holds at its No. 2 high on Radio Songs; and jumps 5-1 for a record-padding 20th week atop Digital Song Sales. “Choosin’ Texas” was first No. 1 on the Hot 100 on Valentine’s Day, on the chart dated Feb. 14, and is now No. 1 just past Halloween, on the list dated Nov. 7. As it’s led from holidays spanning candy hearts to candy corn, it adds another month, per chart dates, in which it has been the No. 1 song, likewise extending a record. Tate McRae’s “Housewife” holds at No. 2 in its second week on the Hot 100. It posts a second week at No. 1 on Streaming Songs (20.8 million streams, down 9%). Stella Lefty’s “Boston” rebounds three spots (6-3) on the Hot 100, as does Morgan Wallen’s “Been by Now” (7-4),

with both having hit No. 2. Tame Impala and Jennie’s “Dracula” also jumps three places, back to its No. 5 Hot 100 high. Adéla’s “Nicole Kidman” returns to its No. 6 Hot 100 best, from No. 9, and Olivia Rodrigo and Chappell Roan’s “Expectations” falls to No. 7 from its No. 3 peak. Taylor Swift’s “Patient Zero” drops 5-8 after it reigned in its first three weeks on the Hot 100 in October. Karol G’s “Bby Wow,” with Judeline and rusowsky, rises 12-9 on the Hot 100, after reaching No. 6. Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, Ariana Grande’s “Hate That I Made You Love Me” lifts 11-10, after it led in its debut week in June. My Chemical Romance triumphs on the Billboard 200 chart, scoring its first No. 1 album, as The Black Parade jumps from No. 139 to No. 1 on the Nov. 7-dated chart, following the 20th anniversary deluxe reissue of the 2006 album. The set originally debuted and peaked at No. 2 upon its release and remained the band’s highest-charting album until this week. The album was reissued in an array of configurations, and was available across more than 20 physical variants, with the expanded editions including bonus tracks. All versions of the album are combined for tracking and charting purposes. In the week ending Oct. 29, it earned 78,000 equivalent album units in the United States (up 653%) according to Luminate — largely driven by pure album sales (68,000, up 2,082%). The group has celebrated the album on tour since July 2025, with a trek that is slated to wrap on Nov. 22 in Indonesia. Among the stops was a five-night stand at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles this October. The Black Parade’s 20-year-wait to reach No. 1 is the longest ever for an album, surpassing the 15-year and nine-month wait for Toby Keith’s 35 Biggest Hits, following his death in 2024. Of The Black Parade’s 78,000 equivalent album units earned in the latest tracking week, album sales comprise 68,000 (up 2,082%, it surges 29-1 on Top Album Sales for the group’s first week at No. 1), SEA units comprise 10,000 (up 34%, equaling 10.14 million on-demand official streams of the set’s tracks) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. Vinyl purchases accounted for 42,000 of the album’s sales for the week — the band’s best week ever on vinyl. The album benefits from its availability across more than 20 physical variants on vinyl, CD and cassette, including signed editions. The Nos. 2-6 titles on the latest Billboard 200 are all former No. 1s: Olivia Rodrigo’s you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love falls a rung to No. 2 (64,000 equivalent album units earned, down 15%); Morgan Wallen’s I’m the Problem is steady at No. 3 (53,000, down 3%); Ella Langley’s Dandelion is stationary at No. 4 (47,000, down 4%); Noah Kahan’s The Great Divide rises 6-5 (39,000, down 3%); and Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl dips 5-6 (35,000, down 18%). Zach Bryan’s Young Manhood and Other Donatable Organs falls 2-7 in its second week (33,000 equivalent album units, down 49%), Noah Kahan’s Stick Season is a non-mover at No. 8 (32,000, down 3%), Drake’s Habibti descends 7-9 (31,000, down 10%) and Olivia Dean’s The Art of Loving falls 9-10 (30,000, down 7%).

Record Of The Month: "Stop The Wedding!" by Ashe
Shortly after marrying her second husband in 2025, Ashe reflected on her first marriage and how her ex-husband's behavior during their wedding had foreshadowed their divorce. This realization inspired her to write the song, in which she pleads to her younger self to leave her prior marriage before the problems could begin.

United Kingdom
Music Week Report (excerpt)
Jamie Miller's 'Babydoll' remains no.1
Monday, November 2, 2026
by Alan Jones, London
 
The top two consolidate their positions at the sharp end of the chart this week, with each securing the highest consumption for their respective positions for 19 weeks. Leading the way for the second time, Jamie Miller’s debut hit, Babydoll, continues to ignite, increasing consumption a further 46.88% week-on-

week to 69,840 units with digital downloads making a stellar contribution of 9,547 units (sales-equivalent streams: 60,293), as both the solo and Antonio Cipriano duet versions of the track were priced for purchase at 59p. After becoming Tate McRae’s highest-charting hit when it debuted at No.2 last week, Housewife ups consumption 7.93% to 50,720 units, but its 99p download makes a far lesser contribution of 339 units, only the 19th highest of any track. Climbing a notch to return to the No.3 peak it first scaled a fortnight ago, Stop The Wedding! increases consumption for the 11th week in a row for Ashe since its release, with a 3.78% hike to 34,288 units. Sombr’s latest hit, My Body Isn’t Ready has executed a perfectly palindromic 10-13-10-10-13-10 cycle, and its fourth week at its No.10 peak is accompanied by its highest yet consumption of 18,005 units. The rest of the Top 10: Expectations (3-4, 34,238 sales) by Olivia Rodrigo & Chappell Roan, Great

Expectations (5-5, 27,973 sales) by Sienna Spiro, Choosin’ Texas (6-6, 23,370 sales) by Ella Langley, Nicole Kidman (8-7, 23,242 sales) by Adéla, Rein Me In (11-8, 18,716 sales) by Sam Fender & Olivia Dean and The Cure (9-9, 18,585 sales) by Olivia Rodrigo. Overall singles consumption is up 1.56% week-on-week to 29,646,410 units, 4.32% below same week 2025 sales of 30,984,457 units. Paid-for sales are up 5.40% week-on-week at 263,181, 5.84% below same week 2025 sales of 279,507. Denied a No.1 debut in 2006 when its introductory sale of 85,805 units was inferior to the 147,236 opening made by Robbie Williams’ Rudebox, My Chemical Romance’s third and most celebrated album, The Black Parade, finally reaches the summit, after being released in a plethora of 20th anniversary editions. Catapulting 162-1 with consumption soaring 1353.31% week-on-week to 20,172 units (7,977 CDs, 9,257 vinyl albums, 978 cassettes, 346 digital downloads and 1,614 sales-equivalent streams), it is the first album by the New Jersey rock band to reach No.1. On its third week in the Top 10, 24th week in the Top 40, 56th week in the Top 75 and 171st week in the Top 200, it increases the album’s already substantial lead as the band’s most-consumed title, raising its cume to 1,256,082 units. That’s more than their three other studio sets together: their No.9 2004 second album, Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge, is on 662,536 units; most recent (2010) No.2 set Danger Days: The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys is on 312,470 units; and 2002 No.129 debut I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love is on 172,042 units. Although it is 16 years since their last new studio album, My Chemical Romance are still extant, and toured ahead of The Black Parade’s 20th birthday earlier this year, raising it as high as No.21 just 15 weeks ago. The week after The Black Parade debuted at No.2, Amy Winehouse’s second album, Back To Black, debuted at No.3. It reached No.1 10 weeks later, eventually spending seven weeks at the summit in original and deluxe editions, most recently topping the chart in 2011, shortly after her death. Newly expanded with previously unreleased demos, rare b-sides and live recordings, it surges 112-4 (11,318 sales), reaching the Top 10 for the first time since it got to No.7 on the 10th anniversary of Winehouse’s death in 2021. It too had a split chart career, with the original and deluxe versions charting separately before being united. The OCC website shows it as having spent 365 weeks in the Top 75, 571 weeks in the Top 100 and 913 weeks in the Top 200 – but these tallies don’t include the chart run of the deluxe edition, which spent 61 weeks in the Top 200, 56 of them, in the Top 100, and 53 of them in the Top 75. Across all versions, Back To Black’s cumulative consumption of 4,663,829 units is the 11th highest of any album, the eighth highest of a studio album, and the second highest of an album by a female soloist, trailing only Adele’s 21 (5,755,621 units). It is also second to 21 among all 21st century album releases. In addition to the total listed above, Back To Black was issued in a double pack with Frank, in which configuration it achieved a further 66,469 sales, peaking at No.10. No.1 on debut last week, Dopamine Chamber suffers an 80.54% dip in consumption to 13,639 units for Fontaines DC as it falls to No.2. In 2014 to mark the 20th anniversary of the release of their No.6 third album, The Holy Bible, Manic Street Preachers embarked on a sell-out tour performing the album in its entirety. The Holy Bible – Live, capturing their December 2014 performances over three nights at London’s Roundhouse, is the only bona fide new entry to the Top 10 (No.10, 6,548 sales), and becomes the veteran Welsh rockers’ 20th Top 20 album – their entire output. The rest of the Top 10: You Seem Pretty Sad For A Girl So In Love (2-3, 12,548 sales) by Olivia Rodrigo, The Essential (3-5, 10,128 sales) by Michael Jackson, The Art Of Loving (4-6, 8,432 sales) by Olivia Dean, Visitor (5-7, 7,876 sales) by Sienna Spiro, 50 Years: Don’t Stop (6-8, 7,037 sales) by Fleetwood Mac and The Highlights (7-9, 6,824 sales) by The Weeknd. Exiting the Top 10: The Ones That Got The Plays (10-12, 5,987 sales) by Katy Perry, Time Flies: 1994-2009 (8-14, 5,638 sales) by Oasis and – after debuting at No.9 last week – Rachel Chinouriri’s now uncharted second album, I Think I Spoke Too Soon (749 sales). Overall album sales are down 1.22% week-on-week to 2,403,179 units, 9.59% below same week 2025 sales of 2,658,170. Physical product accounts for 308,507 sales, 12.84% of the total..