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\n Ella Langley. Duh. Hey, here\u2019s a game for anybody who doesn\u2019t religiously monitor \u201cThe Billboard Hot 100\u201d charts<\/a>: Guess how many songs Ella Langley currently has in the top five. Did you guess one? Or two? If so, you\u2019re wrong. She in fact has three separate songs in the top five. Her duet with Morgan Wallen, \u201cI Can\u2019t Love You Anymore\u201d is at No. 4; her song \u201cBe Her\u201d is at No. 3; and her mega-smash \u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas\u201d is sitting comfy at No. 1. The only person stopping her from having the top three songs in America is Taylor Swift, whose Toy Story 5<\/em> soundtrack song \u201cI Knew It, I Knew You,\u201d<\/a> is at No. 2. Additionally, \u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas\u201d has been at the top of the charts for 13 weeks and will definitely score a 14th week<\/a>. Snagging that spot will put her alongside Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston as the only women to chart a song at No. 1 for 14 weeks. (The longest-running No. 1 song of all time is Carey\u2019s \u201cAll I Want for Christmas Is You,\u201d<\/a> which has spent a cumulative 22 weeks on top of the chart.)<\/p>\n It\u2019s almost unfathomable just how popular this country star has become. Erling Haaland, the Norwegian soccer player who became a sensation in the 2026 World Cup, was spotted<\/a> hitting golf balls into the ocean while listening to Langley. And this a man who famously doesn\u2019t even watch movies<\/a>. If you don\u2019t know her voice, then you know her face thanks to a few commercials. One from Chase Sapphire Reserve<\/a> sees her getting an upgrade on a flight. \u201cAn upgrade?\u201d she asks incredulously, which is a surprised posture she probably can\u2019t get away with for much longer. Meanwhile, her American Eagle collab<\/a> has been refreshingly controversy-free<\/a> and deems her a \u201cdenim darling.\u201d In all of these campaigns, and in her music, Langley presents as the sweet-voiced small-town girl. She\u2019s clean and she\u2019s accessible, but in a \u201cwink wink\u201d way.<\/a> Her catchy songs and breezy persona are the selling point: There\u2019s nothing too difficult<\/a> about Ella Langley.<\/p>\n Her success is the latest development in the continued mainstreaming of country after decades on the sidelines of American music. She, Morgan Wallen, and Zach Bryan are all modern streaming superstars who are dominating the charts across the whole nation. Prior to Wallen\u2019s \u201cLast Night\u201d going to No. 1 in 2023, the last country song to hit No. 1 had been Lonestar\u2019s \u201cAmazed\u201d in 2000. Langley\u2019s success is extra-sweet because of the history of misogyny in the country genre. In 2015, radio consultant Keith Hill said that women<\/a> were not as important to the \u201csalad\u201d of country radio as the men. \u201cThe lettuce is Luke Bryan and Blake Shelton, Keith Urban and artists like that,\u201d he added. \u201cThe tomatoes of our salad are the females.\u201d These days, Langley is the most popular artist in America and in line to win Best New Artist at the Grammy Awards. If she did that, she\u2019d be the first country woman to win the award since Carrie Underwood. Sounds pretty important to me.<\/p>\n
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