USA
Billboard Report (excerpt)
'Choosin' Texas' rebounds for 25th week at no.1
Tuesday, October 27, 2026
by Keith Caulfield & Gary Trust, Los Angeles

Ella Langley's “Choosin’ Texas” rises a spot to notch a record-extending 25th week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song initially ruled the Top 100 in February, on its way to setting

“Choosin’ Texas,” on Sawgod/Columbia Records, with Triple Tigers having promoted it to country radio, totaled 20 million official streams (up 1% week over week), 58.6 million radio airplay audience impressions (essentially even) and 4,000 sold (down 17%) in the United States Oct. 16-22. The single drops to No. 4 from No. 1 following a record-tying 26 weeks atop the Streaming Songs chart; holds at its No. 2 high on Radio Songs; and falls 2-5 after a record 19 weeks atop Digital Song Sales. “Choosin’ Texas” logs its seventh distinct stay at No. 1 on the Hot 100, previously leading on charts dated Feb. 14; March 7 and 21-28; April 11-25; May 9-23; and July 4-Oct. 3. It extends its mark for the most separate No. 1 runs over a single release cycle. (Overall, Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” leads with eight ascents to No. 1 over 2019-25.) Tate McRae’s “Housewife” launches at No. 2 on the Hot 100 with 22.9 million streams, 12.7 million

in airplay audience and 4,000 sold in its first full tracking week, after the song, and its official video, arrived Oct. 15. Plus, she performed it Oct. 18 at the 2026 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show. Having described the song as about “a woman who can’t be contained,” McRae adds her fourth Hot 100 top 10, and her highest-charting as a lead artist. “Greedy” rose to No. 3 in January 2024; Morgan Wallen’s “What I Want,” on which she’s featured, led in its debut week in May 2025; and “Tit for Tat” entered at its No. 3 peak last October. “Housewife” debuts atop Streaming Songs, as McRae’s second No. 1 and first in a lead role, after “What I Want” led for six weeks. Olivia Rodrigo and Chappell Roan’s “Expectations” soars 63-3 on the Hot 100, following the Oct. 15 release of its remix, and video, adding Roan. The song was originally released in June by Rodrigo solo on her album you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love. The track (all versions combined) totaled 18.2 million streams (up 302%), 2.6 million in radio reach (up from a negligible amount), 4,000 downloads sold (up 465%) and 15,000 in first-week physical sales (on cassette, CD and 7-inch vinyl). Also new in the Hot 100’s top five, Zach Bryan’s “Lies,” featuring Lana Del Rey, enters at No. 4 with 19.6 million streams and 5,000 sold. It was released Oct. 16 on Bryan’s new eight-song set, Young Manhood and Other Donatable Organs. “Lies” also opens at No. 1 on Digital Song Sales, where Bryan and Del Rey each lead for the first time. Taylor Swift’s “Patient Zero” falls four spots to No. 5 after it reigned in its first three weeks on the Hot 100. With 26,000 in physical sales and 4,000 in downloads, it’s the top-selling song of the week overall. Stella Lefty’s “Boston” descends three places (3-6) on the Hot 100, as does Morgan Wallen’s “Been by Now” (4-7), with both having hit No. 2. Tame Impala and Jennie’s “Dracula” drops to No. 8 from its No. 5 Hot 100 high. Adéla’s “Nicole Kidman” dips to No. 9 from its No. 6 Hot 100 best and, rounding out the top 10, Olivia Rodrigo’s “Stupid Song” slips 8-10. Her You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl so in Love returns to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated Oct. 31) for a third nonconsecutive week on top. The set surges from the runner-up slot with a 15% gain in equivalent album units earned (75,000) in the United States in the week ending Oct. 22. The increase was largely spurred by the release of a new remix of the album’s latest single, “Expectations,” with Chappell Roan, on Oct. 15, alongside its official music video. Rodrigo’s album spent its first two weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 (dated June 27 and July 4) and has yet to leave the weekly top five in its 19 weeks on the list. Of the albums’s 75,000 equivalent album units earned in the latest tracking week, SEA units comprise 63,000 (up 19%, equaling 67.14 million on-demand official streams of the set’s tracks; it moves 2-1 on Top Streaming Albums for a fifth total week in the lead), album sales comprise 11,000 (down 7%; it climbs 6-3 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise 1,000 (up 121%). Zach Bryan’s Young Manhood and Other Donatable Organs launches at No. 2 on the latest Billboard 200 with 65,500 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, SEA units comprise 59,500 (equaling 60.46 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs; it debuts at No. 2 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 5,000 (it was only available to purchase as a standard download album; it debuts at No. 15 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise 1,000. The CD and vinyl editions of the album are due out in December. The announcement of the new set on Oct. 12 came shortly after Bryan wrapped his With Heaven on Tour concert trek on Oct. 10. Bryan will hit the road again beginning on April 28, 2027, with the Young Manhood and Other Donatable Organs Tour. With the arrival of Bryan’s newest release, his tally of charted titles on the Billboard 200 rises to 10. Of those, six have reached the top 10: Young Manhood and Other Donatable Organs (No. 2 in 2026), With Heaven on Top (No. 1, 2026), The Great American Bar Scene (No. 2, 2024), Boys of Faith (No. 8, 2023), his self-titled album (No. 1 for two weeks in 2023) and American Heartbreak (No. 5, 2022). The next four titles on the latest Billboard 200 are former No. 1s: Morgan Wallen’s I’m the Problem is a non-mover at No. 3 (54,000 equivalent album units earned, down 2%), Ella Langley’s Dandelion is steady at No. 4 (49,000, down 7%), Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl falls 1-5 (42,000, down 52%) and Noah Kahan’s The Great Divide dips 5-6 (40,000, down 9%). Drake’s Habibti slips 6-7 (35,000 equivalent album units earned, down 20%), Noah Kahan’s Stick Season is stationary at No. 8 (33,000, down less than 1%), Olivia Dean’s The Art of Loving falls 7-9 (nearly 33,000, down 8%) and SZA’s chart-topping SOS steps 11-10 (30,000, down less than 1%).

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' reaches no.1
Monday, October 26, 2026
by Alan Jones, London
 
Jamie Miller becomes , the first male solo artist to reach No.1 since Harry Styles in March, stepping up to the summit with his debut hit, Babydoll. Consumption surges 38.27% week-on-week to 47,548 units (5,906 digital downloads and 41,642 sales-equivalent streams) following the release of a duet

version or the track, teaturing American singer and actor Antonio ciprano First coming to notice as a finalist on The Voice UK in 2017, 29-year-old Miller, from Cardiff, released several singles without success before Babydoll, which he co-wrote with Australian singer/songwriter Hayley Warner and American songwriter Michael Blum, who also co-produced the track for him Moving 84-67-46-24-8-6-3-2-1, Babydoll reaches No.1 after climbing the Top 75 for seven weeks in a row (the Top 100 for eight weeks in a row), becoming the first song to have such a sustained rise without pausing or falling along the way since 2019/2020, when Tones And I's debut hit Dance Monkey rose 82-60-48-40-31-19-14-7-1. Dance Monkey went on to spend 11 weeks at No.1 and is the 27th biggest hit of the 21st century with to-date consumption of 4,521,183 units. Tate McRae's highest charting hits hitherto - You Broke Me First (2020), Greedy (2023) and Sports Car (2025) - all peaked at No.3.

Housewife, the first new song from her upcoming fourth album, surpasses them all, making its debut at No.2 this week (46,992 sales). McRae's 20th Top 75 single and ninth Top 10 entry, it is the highest of 10 debuts on the Top 75, and also sparks a 39.84% week-on-week increase in consumption of her current album, So Close To What, which rebounds 54-29 (3,603 sales), achieving its highest position for 28 weeks. While Cipriano's assist on Jamie Miller's No.1 doesn't earn him a joint artist credit on the chart, Chappell Roan's name is added to the credits of Olivia Rodrigo's new hit, Expectations, which explodes 35-3 (45,822 sales) this week. Normal convention is that once a song reaches the Top 40 its artist credit is frozen. This rule hasn't been applied for Expectations, which becomes Rodrigo's 12th Top 10 single and Roan's sixth, and whose change of credit was approved eight days ago, before it made the Top 40, but too late to be processed for last week's chart. For the record, however, streaming and digital sales of Expectations are higher for the duet version, whilst on Babydoll the solo version remains more popular. The duet version of Expectations is also the lead track on 7-inch and CD versions of the single, which contribute 3,570 and 2,599 sales, respectively. Only 1,726 sales separate the top three - the lowest figure so far this year. Country star Zach Bryan scores his first Top 10 single with Lies (No.7, 22,362 sales), a song from his new EP, Young Manhood And Other Donatable Organs. It also features Lana Del Rey who thus marks the 15th anniversary of her chart debut by scoring her 31st Top 75 and seventh Top 10 entry. After three weeks at No.1, the last two of which were heavily reliant on CD sales, Patient Zero slides to No.10 (19,891 sales) for Taylor Swift. No CD sales were detected this week but it sold 194 copies of two 7-inch variants with, presumably, more to come. The rest of the Top 10: Stop The Wedding! (3-4, 33,040 sales) by Ashe, Great Expectation (4-5, 29,225 sales) by Sienna Spiro, Choosin' Texas (7-6, 23,072 sales) by Ella Langley, Nicole Kidman (5-8, 22,205 sales) by Adéla and The Cure (8-9, 19,999 sales) by Olivia Rodrigo. Overall singles consumption is up 0.11% week-on-week to 29,600,331 units, 2.84% below same week 2025 sales of 30,465,054 units. Paid-for sales are down 7.91% week-on-week at 249,697, 0.13% below same week 2025 sales of 250,017.Scorching to the highest sales of any album for 18 weeks - and the highest by a group since Coldplay's Moon Music in 2024 - Fontaines DC's fifth studio album, Dopamine Chamber, debuts at No.1 on consumption of 70,105 units (14,235 CDs, 37,501 vinyl albums, 1,796 cassettes, 1,479 digital downloads and 15,094 sales-equivalent streams). It is the second No.1 for the rock quintet formed in Dublin 12 years ago, who comprise 31-year-old lead singer Grian Chatten, 32-year-old guitarist Conor Curley, 33-year-old bass guitarist Conor Deegan, 32-year-old drummer Tom Coll and 32-year-old guitarist Carlos O'Connell. The first four are founder members of the group, with O'Connor joining in 2016. All are credited with co-writing every song on the album. Dopamine Chamber secures the highest weekly sale yet for an album by the band, surpassing the 43,034 units their last album, Romance sold when it debuted and peaked at No.2 in 2024 - more than doubling their previous best of 19,983 units their third album, Skinty Fia, achieved when it opened at No. 1 in 2022. The only albums to open bigger than Dopamine Chamber in 2026 are Kiss All The Time: Disco, Occasionally (183,045 units) by Harry Styles and You Seem Pretty Sad For A Girl So In Love (102,814 units) by Olivia Rodrigo Romance's failure to reach No.1, by the way, was because it was scheduled against Sabrina Carpenter's Short N' Sweet. It is exactly four years (208 weeks) since any other album - namely The Car by Arctic Monkeys - had a higher first week sale than Romance and didn't debut at No. 1. In a Top 10 where the remainder of the titles together achieved only 301 units more consumption than Dopamine Chamber managed on its own, Olivia Rodrigo's late t album, You Seem Pretty Sad For A Girl So In Love is its (distant) nearest challenger, rebounding 3-2, a 16-week high, with consumption climbing 19.66% w PK-OD-WPP٥ 3 ٦ Building on the success of her 2024 debut album, What A Devastating Turn Of Events, which peaked at No.17 and has sold 25,845 copies, 27-year-old London singer/songwriter Rachel Chinouriri's second album, I Think | Spoke Too Soon, opens at No.9 (5,934 sales) The rest of the Top 10: The Essential (4-3, 9,675 sales) by Michael Jackson, The Art Of Loving (5-4, 8,056 sales) by Olivia Dean, Visitor (6-5, 7,748 sales) by Sienna Spiro, 50 Years: Don't Stop (7-6, 7,073 sales) by Fleetwood Mac, The Highlights (10-7, 6,884 sales) by The Weeknd, Time Flies: 1994-2009 (8-8) 6,157 sales) by Oasis and The Ones That Got The Plays (15-10, 5,825 sales) by Katy Perry. Overall album sales are up 0.85% week-on-week to 2,432,888 units, 5.67% below same week 2025 sales of 2,579,239. Physical product accounts for 333,376 sales, 13.70% of the total.