Ella Langley’s ‘Choosin’ Texas’ Holds Off Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ for 27th Week Atop Hot 100

Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” continues at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for a record-extending 27th week atop the chart.

The smash fends off a Halloween-sparked surge for Michael Jackson’s 1980s classic “Thriller,” which pounces to a new No. 2 Hot 100 peak.

As “Choosin’ Texas” furthers its reign, here’s an updated look at the longest-leading hits, ranked by most weeks spent at No. 1, since the Hot 100 began in August 1958:

• 27 weeks (to date), “Choosin’ Texas,” Ella Langley, 2026
• 22, “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” Mariah Carey, 2019-26
• 19, “A Bar Song (Tipsy),” Shaboozey, 2024
• 19, “Old Town Road,” Lil Nas X feat. Billy Ray Cyrus, 2019
• 16, “Last Night,” Morgan Wallen, 2023
• 16, “Despacito,” Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee feat. Justin Bieber, 2017
• 16, “One Sweet Day,” Mariah Carey & Boyz II Men, 1995-96

“Choosin’ Texas” first led the Hot 100 in February, on its way to setting multiple chart records.

Read on for details of the entire top 10 on this week’s Hot 100, including more about Jackson’s climb and a new No. 3 high for Tame Impala and JENNIE’s fellow Halloween-friendly hit, “Dracula.”

Notably, the three metrics that power the Hot 100 are paced by spook-tacular titles: “Thriller” tops the Streaming Songs and Digital Song Sales charts, each for the first time, and “Dracula” holds at No. 1 on Radio Songs.

The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data, the lattermost metric reflecting purchases of physical singles and digital tracks from full-service digital music retailers; digital singles sales from direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites are excluded from chart calculations. All charts dated Nov. 14, 2026, will update on Billboard.com tomorrow, Nov. 10. For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram. Plus, for all chart rules and explanations, click here.

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• ‘Choosin’ Texas’ Streams, Airplay & Sales

  “Choosin’ Texas,” on SAWGOD/Columbia Records, with Triple Tigers having promoted it to country radio, totaled 18.8 million official streams (down 2% week over week), 53 million radio airplay audience impressions (down 8%) and 4,000 sold (up 5%) in the United States Oct. 30-Nov. 5.

  The single holds at No. 2 following a record-tying 26 weeks atop Streaming Songs; likewise keeps at No. 2, its high, on Radio Songs; and drops to No. 2 after a record 20 weeks atop Digital Song Sales.

  “Choosin’ Texas” also leads the multimetric Hot Country Songs chart for a 48th week.

• Jackson Thrills at No. 2

  

  Jackson’s “Thriller” vaults from No. 20 to No. 2 for a new Hot 100 best, more than four decades after it first appeared on the chart. The song soared to 17.4 million streams (up 87%), 11.3 million in radio reach (up 172%) and 4,000 sold (up 48%) in the tracking week that included Halloween.

  The track leaps 10-1 on Streaming Songs and 4-1 on Digital Song Sales for its first week atop each list. The late King of Pop, who died in 2009, achieves his first leader on both charts. (While the song’s sum of raw streams is the week’s second-highest, after “Choosin’ Texas,” “Thriller” leads Streaming Songs due to the application of weighting to all titles’ paid/subscription and ad-supported on-demand streams and programmed/radio streams.)

  “Thriller” hits a new Hot 100 high 42 years and nine months after it first made the chart; it previously peaked at No. 4 for two weeks in March 1984. It was released as the seventh and final top 10 from Jackson’s album of the same name that ruled the Billboard 200 for 37 weeks — the most for a set by a single artist. It also made the album the first with as many as seven top 10 Hot 100 hits.

  Here’s an updated look at the peaks for Thriller’s Hot 100 top 10s:

  • No. 1, seven weeks, “Billie Jean,” beginning March 5, 1983
  • No. 1, three weeks, “Beat It,” April 30, 1983
  • No. 2, “Thriller,” Nov. 14, 2026
  • No. 2, “The Girl Is Mine,” with Paul McCartney, Jan. 8, 1983
  • No. 5, “Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’,” July 16, 1983
  • No. 7, “Human Nature,” Sept. 17, 1983
  • No. 10, “P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing),” Nov. 26, 1983

  While Jackson last ranked in the Hot 100’s top 10 a year ago this week, when “Thriller” lunged to No. 10, he has his highest placement in 31 years, one month and three weeks, since “You Are Not Alone” was No. 2, after it became his 13th leader as a soloist (to go along with four by the Jackson 5 with him as a member).

  Plus, with Jackson at No. 2 on both the Hot 100 and Billboard 200, where Thriller roars 13-2, he appears in the charts’ top two simultaneously for the first time since the lists dated Jan. 18, 1992, when “Black or White” was in its seventh and last week atop the Hot 100 and parent album Dangerous ranked at No. 2 following four weeks on top.

• ‘Dracula’ Levitates to No. 3

  Tame Impala and JENNIE’s “Dracula” ascends two spots to a new No. 3 Hot 100 high. In the tracking week that encompassed Halloween, it bounded by 31% to 9.4 million streams and 8% to 2,000 sold.

  The song reaches the top three in its 58th week on the Hot 100, completing the longest journey to the region by total chart weeks. It surpasses the 51 weeks that Glass Animals’ “Heat Waves” took in 2021-22.

  Also with the rise, JENNIE ties her BLACKPINK bandmate ROSÉ for the highest Hot 100 rank by a woman prominent in K-pop (Korean pop). Bruno Mars and ROSÉ’s “APT.” peaked at No. 3 in February 2025.

  “Dracula” concurrently leads the multimetric Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart for a 44th week and Hot Rock & Alternative Songs for a 25th, as it tops Radio Songs for an eighth week (62.6 million, down 1%).

• Rest of Top 10: ‘Housewife’ & More

  Tate McRae’s “Housewife” slips to No. 4 in its third week on the Hot 100, after spending its first two frames at No. 2.

  Stella Lefty’s “Boston” falls two places (3-5) on the Hot 100, as does Morgan Wallen’s “Been by Now” (4-6), with both having reached No. 2, while ADÉLA’s “Nicole Kidman” backtracks a spot from its No. 6 best.

  Karol G’s “BbY WOW,” with Judeline and rusowsky, rises 9-8 on the Hot 100, after hitting No. 6. It tops the multimetric Hot Latin Songs chart for a 12th week.

  Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, Ariana Grande’s “Hate That I Made You Love Me” lifts 10-9, after it led in its debut week in June, and Olivia Rodrigo’s “Stupid Song” returns to the tier (12-10), after hitting No. 3.