Choosin' Texas

Ella Langley's "Choosin' Texas" dropped on October 17, 2025, as the lead single from her sophomore album Dandelion, due in 2026. The song came together at Nashville's Sound Emporium Studios with a co-write that included Langley, Luke Dick, Miranda Lambert, and Joybeth Taylor. Lambert didn't just help write it, she sang background vocals and co-produced alongside Langley and Ben West. Guitarist Tom Bukovac laid down the track's warm, steady guitar lines, and the steel guitar gives it that classic country ache.

The lyrics flip a love triangle on its head: instead of two people fighting over one person, it's a rivalry between two states, Texas and Tennessee. Langley's narrator watches her man pine for a former flame from Texas, and she's not having it. The conversational, almost spoken-sung delivery makes the heartache feel real, like a friend telling you a story over drinks. It's modern country radio polish with Southern grit underneath.

Released on SAWGOD Records and Columbia Records, the song became Langley's first number one on the Billboard Hot 100, where it spent 11 non-consecutive weeks at the top. It also hit number one in Australia, Canada, Ireland, and New Zealand, and peaked at number nine in the UK. Langley made history as the first woman to simultaneously lead the Hot 100, Hot Country Songs, and Country Airplay charts. On Spotify, the track has racked up over 483 million streams as of mid-2026. [edit]