USA
Billboard Report (excerpt)
'Choosin' Texas' adds landmark 15th week at No. 1
Tuesday, July 28, 2026
by Keith Caulfield & Gary Trust, Los Angeles

Ella Langley's “Choosin’ Texas” collects a 15th week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 — surpassing two classic songs for yet more chart history. The single, which first hit No. 1 on the Hot

100 in February, surpasses 14-week leaders “We Belong Together” by Mariah Carey, from 2005, and “I Will Always Love You” by Whitney Houston, in 1992-93, for the most weeks at No. 1 ever among non-holiday titles by women with no co-billed acts. Removing the seasonal qualifier, “Choosin’ Texas” trails only Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” for the longest Hot 100 command among songs by only women. “Choosin’ Texas,” on Sawgod / Columbia Records, with Triple Tigers having promoted it to country radio, totaled 25.2 million official streams (up 5% week over week), 51.9 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 2%) and 7,000 sold (down 6%) in the United States July 17-23. Langley’s first Hot 100 leader holds for a 16th week at No. 1 on Streaming Songs; repeats at No. 6, after reaching No. 4, on Radio Songs; and slips to No. 3 on Digital Song Sales following 13 weeks on top. Country hits claim the top four for a second time in

the Hot 100’s history, two weeks after the genre first achieved the feat. Below “Choosin’ Texas,” Taylor Swift’s “I Knew It, I Knew You” is No. 2 for a fifth consecutive week, after it spent its first two weeks on the Hot 100 at No. 1 in June; Stella Lefty’s first top 10, “Boston,” surges 6-3 for a new high; and Langley and Morgan Wallen’s “I Can’t Love You Anymore” rebounds three spots to its No. 4 best. Two weeks earlier, “Choosin’ Texas,” “I Knew It, I Knew You” and “I Can’t Love You Anymore” were in the same spots, joined by Langley’s “Be Her” at No. 3. In eight other weeks — all in the past three years — country titles took the top three, starting on the Aug. 5, 2023-dated Hot 100, via Jason Aldean’s “Try That in a Small Town,” Wallen’s “Last Night” and Luke Combs’ “Fast Car.” Elsewhere in the Hot 100’s top 10, Ariana Grande’s “Hate That I Made You Love Me” falls 4-5, after it led in its debut week in May. Parent album Petal arrives  arrives Friday (July 31). “Dracula” by Tame Impala, fronted by Kevin Parker, and JennieE, dips to No. 6 from its No. 5 Hot 100 high. Olivia Dean’s “So Easy (To Fall in Love)” rises 9-7 on the Hot 100, after reaching No. 5. It leads Radio Songs for a second week (64.8 million, up 3%). Plus, her “Man I Need” descends 8-9, after hitting No. 2. Langley’s “Be Her” drops 3-8 on the Hot 100 after peaking at No. 2. Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, Bruno Mars’ “I Just Might,” which debuted at No. 1 in January and led for three weeks through March, holds at No. 10. Gracie Abrams scores her first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart as her third full-length studio effort, Daughter From Hell, debuts atop the Aug. 1-dated ranking. It starts with 124,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States in the week ending July 23, according to Luminate — the singer-songwriter’s best week ever by units. Abrams previously hit the top 10 with her last album, The Secret of Us, debuting and peaking at No. 2 in July 2024. Of Daughter From Hell’s 124,000 equivalent album units earned in the tracking week, album sales comprise 77,000 (her best sales week, it debuts at No. 1 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 46,500 (equaling 47.27 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs, it debuts at No. 6 on Top Streaming Albums) and about 500 TEA units. The rest of the top 10 on the latest Billboard 200 are populated by former No. 1s, and the Nos. 2-6 titles are all non-movers as compared to a week ago: Olivia Rodrigo’s you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love is No. 2 (86,000 equivalent album units, down 11%); Morgan Wallen’s I’m the Problem is No. 3 (75,000, up 2%); Ella Langley’s Dandelion is No. 4 (72,000, down 1%); Noah Kahan’s The Great Divide is No. 5 (63,000, down 7%); and Drake’s Iceman is No. 6 (56,000, down 8%). Future’s The Real Me falls to No. 7 with 46,000 equivalent album units earned (down 65%) after debuting at No. 1 a week ago. Michael Jackson’s Thriller rises 9-8 with 40,000 (down 3%). BTS’ Arirang climbs 26-9 with 40,000 equivalent album units earned (up 62%), following the release of a new vinyl picture disc variant of the album with two bonus tracks. Also helping the album was promotion surrounding its new single “Normal,” and BTS’ co-headlining turn during the FIFA World Cup final halftime show on July 19, where the group performed its 2020 No. 1 Hot 100 hit “Dynamite.” Closing out the new top 10 is Morgan Wallen’s One Thing at a Time, holding steady at No. 10 with 38,000 equivalent album units earned (up 3%).

Record Of The Month
While on his international headline tour for his fourth album,
Oliver Tree and five other people died in a helicopter crash in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.
Now, some of his songs are experiencing a resurgence on the charts, most notably 'Life Goes On'.

United Kingdom
Music Week Report (excerpt)
'Rein Me In' sets a historic record
Monday, August 3, 2026
by Alan Jones, London
 
More than 35,000 records have made the singles chart since its 1952 inception, of which in excess of 1,400 have reached No.1 but none has managed to spend more than 18 weeks at the apex – until now. Sam Fender & Olivia Dean’s blockbusting duet Rein Me In is the one to break the mould, racking up an

incredible 19th week at the summit, to take the all-time record, toppling Frankie Laine’s I Believe, which has held it for nearly 73 years, after racking up 18 weeks at No.1 in 1953 before the chart was even a year old. Laine’s leviathan resisted previous challenges from the like of (Everything I Do) I Do It For You, No.1 for Bryan Adams for 16 weeks in 1991; and Love Is All Around by Wet Wet Wet, which endured for 15 weeks in 1994, but is finally relegated to second place by Rein Me In. Trailing the official World Cup anthem Dai Dai by Shakira and Burna Boy on sales flashes for much of the week, Rein Me In emerged triumphant after a short, sharp and successful social media campaign for fans to download the track on Thursday (30 July) boosted its digital sales from 562 to that point, to 3,865 just 24 hours later. The incentives to do so before the chart deadline, at a 59p price point, included prizes of Official Charts Fan Awards and T-Shirts with, appropriately,

19 of each available. On the sixth week of its fourth run at No.1, its 31st consecutive week in the Top 10, and 58th straight week in the Top 40, Rein Me In achieved overall consumption of 44,474 units (one 7-inch sale and 40,608 sales-equivalent streams complete its profile) – an increase of 2.36%, week-on-week. Within that, digital downloads increased 535.69% week-on-week to their highest ever level, while sales-equivalent streams ebbed 5.21%. The campaign was crucial in fighting off Dai Dai, which ended up just 2,404 units in arrears, its consumption rising 10.20% week-on-week to 42,070 units on its second week as runner-up. Now in pursuit of a 20th week at No.1, Rein Me In actually saw its streaming decline for the second week in a row, and will fall into ACR if it returns negative streaming next week – an event which would surely end any chance of it adding further to its chart-topping exploits. Choosin’ Texas (5-3, 26,519 sales) climbs to a new peak for Ella Langley, while Movin’ To The Sun shines ever brighter for Hugel, Imael Angel & Ultra Naté. Surging 11-7 (23,284 sales) it is the third Top 10 entry for Ultra Naté, some 28 years after her second, and the first for the others. Hugel also has a fast-rising second hit in the form of Jamaican (Bam Bam), his collaboration with fellow French DJ Solto, which jumps 67-45 (8,971 sales). The rest of the Top 10: Stupid Song (4-4, 26,352 sales) by Olivia Rodrigo, Talk To You (3-5, 24,944 sales) by ANOTR & 54 Ultra, Free Your Mind (6-6, 23,325 sales) by Prospa & Cloonee, The Cure (9-8, 20,660 sales) by Olivia Rodrigo, Hate That I Made You Love Me (7-9, 20,353 sales) by Ariana Grande, and Man I Need (12-10, 19,434 sales) by Olivia Dean. Overall singles consumption is up 0.15% week-on-week to 30,860,674 units, 2.82% above same week 2025 sales of 30,013,503 units. Paid-for sales are up 7.20% week-on-week at 269,700, 7.88% below same week 2025 sales of 292,757. The Brat is back…again! A mere 23 weeks after her Wuthering Heights soundtrack debuted at No.1, Charli XCX returns to pole position, with her latest regular studio album, Music, Fashion, Film, becoming the first British woman ever to have two No.1 albums in the same calendar year. Securing first week consumption of 22,322 units (6,704 CD, 7,932 vinyl, 414 cassettes, 1,762 digital downloads and 5,510 sales-equivalent streams), her ninth charted album consists of 11 new songs (14 on The B-Sides Edition), all of which she co-wrote with producer Finn Keane, and most of which were also co-written by Keane’s co-producer A.G. Cook. Arriving at the summit two days before XCX’s XXXIVth (34th) birthday, it is her fourth No.1 album, following the aforementioned Wuthering Heights which opened atop the chart on consumption of 21,071 units in February; Crash, which debuted at No.1 in 2022 on consumption of 16,117 units; and Brat, which was No.2 on debut in 2024 on consumption of 27,234 units, and reached No.1 18 weeks later on consumption of 35,949 units, following the release of an expanded Brat And It’s Completely Different But Also Still Brat edition. XCX’s only albums to reach the Top 10 before this year, Crash and Brat are also her most-consumed titles by some distance, with Crash on 80,600 units and Brat, more than seven times as popular, on 608,992 units – the latter tally doesn’t include the standalone double vinyl editions of Brat And It’s Completely Different But Also Still Brat, which peaked at No.40, and have sold a combined 7,289 copies. Brat spent 103 consecutive weeks in the Top 75 from its debut until slipping below the mark in May, and spends its 112th consecutive week in the Top 100 this week, rallying 100-85 (2,110 sales) The time that elapsed between Wuthering Heights and Music, Fashion, Film debuting at No.1 is the shortest for consecutive No.1s by an artist since Taylor Swift’s 1989 (Taylor’s Version) debuted at No.1 in 2023, 16 weeks after Speak Now (Taylor’s Version). With 10 No.1 albums in the 2020s, Swift is one of only three artists to have had more No.1 albums than XCX this decade, the others being Ed Sheeran and Drake (five apiece). Liam Gallagher, Yungblud and Kylie Minogue have also had four. Ahead of Snow Patrol performing their signature album, Eyes Open, in its entirety for the first time ever at three sell-out concerts at The Royal Albert Hall in September, the album has been expanded from 11 to 36 tracks, in a 20th anniversary edition which, naturally, provides much of the thrust for the set to re-enter at No.4 (10,710 sales). The first of Snow Patrol’s two No.1 albums – they had to wait 18 years for their second, The Forest Is The Path in 2024 – Eyes Open was the fourth of the band’s eight studio albums, and is home to the hits Chasing Cars, You’re All I Have, Hands Open and Set The Fire To The Third Bar. Building on first week sales of 126,809 copies, it is the band’s most successful album with to-date consumption of 2,587,671 units, followed by Final Straw (1,849,296 units) and 2009 No.3 album compilation Up To Now (1,326,325 units). Before today, Eyes Open had spent 111 weeks in the Top 75, the last of which was in September 2009, 883 weeks ago. It is the 40th most-consumed album of the 21st century, although its sales-equivalent streams amount to just 175,634 units. Ranked on pure sales (physical formats and digital downloads), its tally of 2,412,037 units places it 29th. On physical sales only (2,257,730), it is higher still (No.27). Shania Twain lands the ninth Top 75 album and seventh Top 10 album of her career with eighth studio set, Little Miss Twain. Debuting at No.7 (7,933 sales), the album follows back-to-back No.1 studio albums by the 60-year-old Canadian country star - Now (2017) and Queen Of Me (2023). Their line-up unchanged since their 1998 formation, New York rock quintet The Strokes score their seventh consecutive Top 10 studio album – their entire output – with Reality Awaits (No.8, 7,621 sales). It is the follow-up to 2020 set, The New Abnormal, which debuted and peaked at No.3 on consumption of 7,983 units. The band’s only No.1 album, third studio set First Impressions Of Earth, is their third most-popular title (270,801 units) behind their 2001 debut Is This It (899,221 units) and 2003 follow-up, Room On Fire (474,593 units), both of which peaked at No.2. The rest of the Top 10: The Essential (2-2, 14,469 sales) by Michael Jackson, You Seem Pretty Sad For A Girl So In Love (3-3, 14,125 sales) by Olivia Rodrigo, The Art Of Loving (4-5, 8,538 sales) by Olivia Dean, Visitor (6-6, 8,208 sales) by Sienna Spiro, 50 Years: Don’t Stop (7-9, 7,315 sales) by Fleetwood Mac and The Highlights (10-10, 6,762 sales) by The Weeknd. Overall album sales are up 1.27% week-on-week to 2,427,838 units, 0.56% below same week 2025 sales of 2,441,542. Physical product accounts for 280,617 sales, 11.56% of the total.