Ella Langley’s ‘Be Her’ Joins ‘Choosin’ Texas’ in Country Airplay Top 10

Ella Langley becomes the first woman to chart two solo songs in the top 10 of Billboard’s Country Airplay chart simultaneously, as “Be Her” rises two spots to No. 10 on the list dated April 25. The song drew 19.3 million audience impressions (up 20%) April 10-16, according to Luminate. The track is her fifth top 10 and joins “Choosin’ Texas,” which holds at No. 3 (27 million).

Both tracks are from Langley’s sophomore album, Dandelion, released April 10. Written by Langley, Smith Ahnquist, HARDY and Jordan Schmidt, “Be Her” builds on the historic run of “Choosin’ Texas,” which led the ranking for three weeks in March-April and has ruled the Hot Country Songs chart for 20 weeks and the Billboard Hot 100 for six weeks and counting.

Langley has placed two songs in the Country Airplay chart’s top 10 concurrently before, but this week marks the first time that she or any woman has done so without a co-billed artist. She last doubled up with “Choosin’ Texas” and as featured on Riley Green’s No. 1 “Don’t Mind If I Do”; the songs spent five weeks together in the top 10 beginning in late December.

Lainey Wilson is the only other woman to place two songs in the top 10 simultaneously, though not entirely on her own. She most recently logged two such weeks in late 2023 with her solo “Watermelon Moonshine” and “Save Me,” with Jelly Roll, both No. 1s. She did so earlier that year with “Heart Like a Truck” and her HARDY team-up “Wait in the Truck.”

Seventeen artists overall have logged at least two concurrent top 10s since Country Airplay began in 1990. Morgan Wallen holds the weekly record with three simultaneous placements — each without any other credited acts — when “Thought You Should Know,” “Last Night,” both of which hit No. 1, and “One Thing at a Time” ranked at Nos. 7, 8 and 9, respectively, for one week in April 2023.