USA
Billboard Report (excerpt)
'Choosin' Texas' rules Billboard Hot 100 for 6th week
Tuesday, April 14, 2026
by Keith Caulfield & Gary Trust, Los Angeles

Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” continues for a sixth week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, dating to its first week atop the chart, when it became her first leader in mid-February. Concurrently,

Langley claims her second Hot 100 top 10 as “Be Her” bounds four places to No. 8. Both songs are from her sophomore LP, Dandelion, released Friday (April 10). “Choosin’ Texas” concurrently tops the multimetric Hot Country Songs chart for a milestone 20th week, while “Be Her” holds at its No. 2 high on the survey. Notably, Langley becomes the second woman to chart two titles in the top 10 of the Hot 100 and Hot Country Songs simultaneously — Taylor Swift first did so with “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” and “Red” for a week in October 2012. “Choosin’ Texas,” on Sawgod / Columbia Records, with Triple Tigers working promotion to country radio, drew 26.6 million official streams (up 11% week over week) and 42.4 million radio airplay audience impressions (down 2%) and sold 9,000 (up 14%) in the United States April 3-9. The single holds for a seventh week at No. 1 on the Streaming Songs chart; dips to No. 9 from its No. 8 best on

Radio Songs; and repeats at No. 2 after five weeks atop Digital Song Sales. Langley’s “Be Her” hits the Hot 100’s top 10 with 14.8 million streams (up 13%), 17.3 million in airplay audience (up 27%), as it’s being promoted as her newest single to country radio, and 2,000 sold (up 12%). Plus, Langley controls the top two spots on Streaming Songs with “Choosin’ Texas” and “Be Her.” She’s the first woman who primarily records country music to score such a twofer; among all core country acts, she joins only Morgan Wallen (three weeks, 2025) in ranking at Nos. 1 and 2 simultaneously. Olivia Dean again boasts her first two Hot 100 top 10s in the bracket as “Man I Need” adds a sixth nonconsecutive week at its No. 2 high and “So Easy (To Fall in Love)” is steady at No. 6. Meanwhile, with both Langley and Dean charting their first two Hot 100 top 10s each, via “Choosin’ Texas,” “Be Her,” “Man I Need” and “So Easy (To Fall in Love),” they’re the first acts to have their first two top 10s apiece in the region together since … just last August-October, when Huntr/x and Saja Boys — both of Kpop Demons Hunters — put aside their rivalry to share space in that part of the chart. Among solo women, however, thanks to Langley and Dean’s hits, this week marks the first time since the Hot 100 began in 1958 that two women have aligned to have their first two top 10s each in the tier together. Bruno Mars’ “I Just Might” rises 4-3 after three weeks atop the Hot 100 in January to mid-March. It’s No. 1 on Radio Songs for a seventh week, with 80.7 million in audience (largely even). Alex Warren’s “Ordinary” ascends 5-4 on the Hot 100 after 10 weeks at No. 1 last June-August. BTS’ “Swim” falls 2-5 on the Hot 100, two weeks after it premiered at No. 1. It leads Digital Song Sales for a third week (24,000 downloads sold, down 65%). Huntr/x’s “Golden” holds at No. 7 on the Hot 100 following eight weeks at No. 1 last August-October. PinkPantheress’ “Stateside,” with Zara Larsson, slips 8-9 on the Hot 100, after hitting No. 6. Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, Kehlani’s “Folded” stays in place at No. 10 after reaching No. 6. BTS’ Arirang captures a third consecutive, and total, week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 (dated April 18), as the set earned 124,000 equivalent album units in the United States in the week ending April 9 (down 34%), according to Luminate. The album debuted atop the chart dated April 4. The last album by a group to spend at least three weeks at No. 1 was Mumford & Sons’ Babel, which had five nonconsecutive weeks atop the list in 2012-13. It spent its first three weeks on the chart at No. 1 (charts dated Oct. 13-27, 2012) and then returned to the top for two more weeks (March 2 and 9, 2013) following its win for album of the year at the Grammy Awards. Babel was also the last album by a group to spend its first three weeks at No. 1. Arirang is the first album to spend its first three weeks at No. 1 since Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl racked up its first seven weeks atop the list (Oct. 18-Nov. 29, 2025), of its 12 total weeks at No. 1. It’s a quiet week in the top 10 on the latest Billboard 200, as there are no debuts in the region. It’s the first time there are no debuts in the top 10 in three months, since the Jan. 17-dated list. Of Arirang’s 124,000 equivalent album units earned in the latest tracking week, album sales comprise 71,000 (down 34%; it’s No. 1 on Top Album Sales for a third week), SEA units comprise 50,000 (down 24%, equaling 52.44 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs; it moves 3-4 on Top Streaming Albums) and TEA units comprise 3,000 (down 65%). Morgan Wallen’s chart-topping I’m the Problem pushes 4-2 on the Billboard 200 (80,000 equivalent album units earned, up 5%); Bully by Ye (formerly Kanye West) falls one spot to No. 3 (69,000, down 54% in its second week); Don Toliver’s former leader OCTANE climbs 8-4 (57,000, up 7% after new physical editions of the album dropped); and Olivia Dea’s The Art of Loving lifts 7-5 (50,000, down 7%). Luke Combs’ The Way I Am is a non-mover at No. 6 (46,000, down 16%). Four former No. 1s fill out the rest of the top 10: Bad Buny’s DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS ascends 9-7 (45,000 equivalent album units earned, down 9%), Morgan Wallen’s One Thing at a Time drives 14-8 (39,000, up 1%), Harry Styles’ Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally. steps 10-9 (37,000, down 22%) and Bruno Mars’ The Romantic rises 12-10 (nearly 37,000, down 7%).

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United Kingdom
Music Week Report (excerpt)
'Rein Me In' rules a seventh week
Monday, April 13, 2026
by Alan Jones, London
 
No.1 for the 3rd week in a row, and 6th time in total, still some distance ahead of the chasing pack, Rein Me In nevertheless sees consumption falling 2.99% week-on-week to a five-week low of 60,713 units (758 digital downloads and 59,955 sales-equivalent streams) for Sam Fender & Olivia Dean. In a Top 10

No.1 for the fourth week in a row, and seventh week in total, Rein Me In continues its slow fade for Sam Fender & Olivia Dean. On its 42nd consecutive week in the Top 40 – 12 fewer than the all-time record of 54 set by Ed Sheeran’s Thinking Out Loud in 2014/2015 – Rein Me In achieves consumption of 60,510 units (33 7-inch vinyl, 822 digital downloads and 59,655 sales-equivalent streams) to raise its career cume to 1,355,433 units. Its consumption is at its lowest level for six weeks, and dips for the second week in a row, but its streaming decline is smaller than the overall market, so it regains its SCR status, and cannot enter ACR for at least four weeks. That threat, however, is real and immediate for Bella Kay’s Iloveitiloveitiloveit, which remains at No.2 (50,225 sales) but enters ACR next week. Completing a static top triumvirate, Tame Impala’s Dracula increases consumption yet again, upping its tally 4.91% to 32,933 units on its second week at

No.3. Dominic Fike achieves a notable double this week, with his viral 2018 release Babydoll (8-7, 29,107 sales) being the only existing Top 10 hit to reach a new peak, and his current single White Keys (12-10, 23,786 sales) joining it in the top tier, to become his third Top 10 hit. Meanwhile, Zara Larsson’s viral 2015 hit Lush Life rebounds 7-4 (30,628 sales), seven weeks after peaking at No.3, while the title track of her current album, Midnight Sun, moves ever closer to joining it in the Top 10, rising 16-12 (18,356 sales) and becoming her highest-charting new hit since 2018. Fever Dream (6-5, 30,504 sales) by Alex Warren, Homewrecker (9-6, 29,552 sales) by Sombr and Man I Need (10-9, 26,615 sales) by Olivia Dean all rebound below their peaks. Harry Styles hangs on to a Top 10 place with American Girls (4-8, 26,817 sales) and treads water with Ready Steady Go (24-23, 14,426 sales) but loses chart status with Aperture. The introductory single from his current album Kiss All The Time…, Aperture debuted at No.1 10 weeks ago but is now ‘starred-out’ and on ACR (9,633 sales) as Styles’ very first solo hit, 2017 chart-topper Sign Of The Times replaces it under primary artist rules, re-entering at No.28 (11,971 sales) after escaping ACR, boosted by its use in the film Project Hail Mary, which is No.2 in the box office chart. Sign Of The Times remains third in Styles’ list of most-consumed tracks with a to-date tally of 2,305,009 units, behind Watermelon Sugar (3,013,820 units) and As It Was (3,469,190 units). Overall singles consumption is down 3.21% week-on-week to 31,279,298 units, 1.70% below same week 2025 sales of 31,820,374 units. Paid-for sales are down 10.20% week-on-week at 250,488, 1.62% above same week 2025 sales of 246,490. Hailing from the village of Rathcoole near Dublin, Irish singer/songwriter Dermot Kennedy maintains his impressive record of topping the chart with each of his regular studio albums, completing the hat trick with The Weight Of The Woods. Comprising 14 songs, all of which 34-year-old Kennedy co-wrote, the album debuts at No.1 on consumption of 22,155 units (13,665 CDs, 3,756 vinyl albums, 1,436 cassettes, 477 digital downloads and 2,821 sales-equivalent streams). That is 10.44% above the 20,061 sales that earned his debut studio album, Without Fear, pole position on debut in 2019, and 13.95% below the 25,748 units that follow-up Sonder secured as it topped the chart on debut in 2022. Kennedy is the only Irish solo artist to top the charts with his first three albums – though we should mention that even before his first regular studio album, he released an eponymous January 2019 compilation. Without Fear has to-date consumption of 452,233 units, with Sonder on 149,918 units, and the compilation – which reached No.76, and was a single sale away from making the Top 75 the week that Without Fear opened at No.1 - on 127,233 units. The Weight Of The Woods is the landmark 50th No.1 album by an act from the Republic Of Ireland, arriving more than 48 years after the first, an eponymous album by crooner Val Doonican, which toppled The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. A ‘carbonated pink champagne liquid edition’ vinyl variant of Man’s Best Friend helps to propel the Sabrina Carpenter 2025 chart-topper to a 23-9 jump, and accounts for 1,459 of its 6,689 sales as it returns to the Top 10 after a seven-week gap. The rest of the Top 10: This Music May Contain Hope (1-2, 15,571 sales) by Raye, The Art Of Loving (2-3, 13,922 sales) by Olivia Dean, Kiss All The Time: Disco, Occasionally (6-4, 10,079 sales) by Harry Styles, Arirang (4-5, 9,966 sales) by BTS, 50 Years: Don’t Stop (8-6, 8,879 sales) by Fleetwood Mac, The Essential (11-7, 7,336 sales) by Mchael Jackson, +-=÷× Tour Collection (12-8, 6,881 sales) by Ed Sheeran and The Highlights (13-10, 6,466 sales) by The Weeknd. Half of last week’s Top 10 are no longer there, namely Bully (3-11, 6,414 sales) by Ye, Hades (5-63, 2,409 sales) by Melanie Matrinez, Full Circle (9-172, 1,354 sales) by Tom Misch plus Top 100 departees Nightmare Tripping (867 sales) by Don Broco and Sexistential (909 sales) by Robyn, the latter pair ranking seventh and tenth a week ago. Overall album sales are down 6.66% week-on-week to 2,491,939 units, 2.88% below same week 2025 sales of 2,565,706. Physical product accounts for 276,604 sales, 11.10% of the total.