Running out of records to achieve.
In what seems like one of the greatest success stories in country music history, Ella Langley’s rise to all-genre superstardom has been one to behold over the past two years. If you’ve been paying close attention within the genre over the years, it was more than apparent that the Alabama native was bound to be a star, catching early buzz with tracks like “Country Boy’s Dream Girl,” “paint the town blue” and “That’s Why We Fight” with Koe Wetzel. With that being said, however, I don’t think anyone could have predicted the world-dominating, record-smashing success she’s had recently.
Launching off the success of her Riley Green collaboration, “you look like you love me” throughout 2024 and 2025, as well as other hits such as “weren’t for the wind,” the Alabama native has become nothing short of a phenomenon thanks to the megahit that is “Choosin’ Texas,” And, in turn, she has captured the hearts of nearly everyone in the country and the world over the past year.
Since its release on October 17th, 2025, it is now the longest-running #1 hit by a female artist this century, the only country song by a woman to triple up and go #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100, Hot Country and Country Airplay charts simultaneously. In case that wasn’t enough, thanks to the success of her sophomore album, Dandelion, which debuted at #1 on the all-genre Billboard 200 and sold 169,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in its first week, Langley became just the second woman in history to hold the #1 album and song in the U.S. simultaneously with a country song/album.
Last month, she made U.S. history by officially capturing the longest-running #1 hit in U.S. history with 23 weeks (now 25), passing Mariah Carey’s long-standing record of 22 atop the all-genre Billboard Hot 100.
Last Friday, she made even more history — this time on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart.
After releasing “Loving Life Again” to radio back in July, the track officially rose to #1 on the chart, garnering 32.4 million audience impressions across the country from October 16th to October 22nd. In turn, it’s Langley’s sixth career chart-topper on country radio.
What makes “Loving Life Again’s” ascension to #1 particularly notable is the fact that Langley is now the second woman in country music history to score four or more #1 hits from a single album with Dandelion. With “Loving Life Again,” “Choosin’ Texas,” “Be Her” and “I Can’t Love You Anymore” all reaching #1, she joins Shania Twain, who scored a staggering six chart-toppers on 1995’s The Woman in Me with hits like “Any Man of Mine” and “Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under?”
In case that wasn’t enough, Langley is now just the fourth artist in country music history to score four or more #1 hits in a CALENDAR YEAR, becoming the first woman ever to do so.
Here, she joins the likes of Morgan Wallen, who has done it a staggering three times from 2023 to 2025 (grabbing a record-setting five #1s in 2024), Garth Brooks, who has done it twice in 1991 and 1993, and Luke Combs, who has done it once in 2021.
You can take a look at which songs allowed the artist to score these historic numbers below:
Ella Langley – 2026 (4)
- “Loving Life Again”
- “Choosin’ Texas”
- “Be Her”
- “I Can’t Love You Anymore” (with Morgan Wallen)
Morgan Wallen – 2025 (4)
- “Love Somebody”
- “I’m The Problem”
- “Just In Case”
- “I Got Better”
Morgan Wallen – 2024 (5)
- “Mamaw’s House” (Thomas Rhett)
- “Man Made a Bar” (feat. Eric Church)
- “I Had Some Help” (Post Malone)
- “Cowgirls” (feat. ERNEST)
- “Lies Lies Lies”
Morgan Wallen – 2023 (4)
- “You Proof”
- “Thought You Should Know”
- “Last Night”
- “Thinkin’ Bout Me”
Luke Combs – 2021 (4)
- “Better Together”
- “Forever After All”
- “Cold Beer Calling My Name” (Jameson Rogers)
- “Cold As You”
Garth Brooks – 1993 (4)
- “Somewhere Other Than The Night”
- “That Summer”
- “Ain’t Goin’ Down (‘Til the Sun Comes Up)”
- “American Honky-Tonk Bar Association”
Garth Brooks – 1991 (4)
- “Two of a Kind, Workin’ on a Full House”
- “The Thunder Rolls”
- “Shameless”
- “What She’s Doing Now”