June 14, 2026
What is the song of the summer 2026?- Ella Langley - "Choosin' Texas"
Ella Langley's "Choosin' Texas" has spent ten non-consecutive weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100—more than any song in 2026. The Alabama-born singer's country ballad about choosing career over love keeps getting knocked off by Taylor Swift, Bad Bunny, Bruno Mars, BTS, Olivia Rodrigo—then climbing back. Made history when she and Megan Moroney simultaneously topped song and album charts (first time two female country artists did this). Her duet partner Morgan Wallen won 2023 Song of Summer with "Last Night" (which also peaked early in March). Can a ballad about Texas landscapes and regret win Song of Summer? Does it have the staying power to hold off Harry Styles, Bruno Mars, and everyone else making a run? Garrett Fisher explores the frontrunner.
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Kalaroga Shark Media. I'm Garrett Fisher and this is the
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Hit Maker Chronicles. Welcome to a new series we're launching
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here at Calaroga Shark Media. Over the next six weeks.
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We're gonna look at the biggest question in music right now,
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what will be the song of the summer twenty twenty six.
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We're not talking about what should win, We're not talking
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about personal favorites. We're talking about what actually has the
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best shot at becoming the song that defines this summer,
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the song you'll hear everywhere, the song that will bring
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you back to June and July and August twenty twenty
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six for the rest of your life. And we're starting
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with the obvious front runner, the song that is dominated
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twenty twenty six more than any other choos in Texas
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by Ella Langley. If you've been paying any attention to
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the charts this year, you know this song that opening
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Ella's voice and a guitar singing about wide open spaces
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and a love that didn't work out the way it
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builds slowly, adding pedal steel and drums until you're right
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there with her, standing in the middle of Texas, trying
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to figure out what went wrong. Choosing Texas has spent
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ten non consecutive weeks at number one on the Billboard
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Hot one hundred this year. Ten weeks. That's more than
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any other song in twenty twenty six. And here's what
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makes that remarkable. It keeps getting knocked off the top
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spot by Taylor Swift, by Bad Bunny, by Bruno Mars
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by Bts, by Olivia Rodrigo, and then it climbs right
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back up. That's not just a hit, that's staying power.
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That's a song people keep coming back to even when
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something shiny and new arrives. But here's the question we're
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asking today. Can Choose in Texas actually become the song
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of the summer or has it already peaked too early.
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Let's start with Ella Langley her because her story is
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part of why this song connects. Ella grew up in
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Hope Haul, Alabama, just south of Montgomery. She's twenty seven
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years old. She played college softball at the University of
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South Alabama before deciding music was what she really wanted
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to do. She moved to Nashville in twenty twenty, right
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as the pandemic hit, and spent the next few years
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grinding writing songs, playing writers' rounds, trying to get noticed
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in a city full of people trying to get noticed.
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Her breakthrough came in twenty twenty three when she released
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You Look Like You Love Me, a duet with Chase
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Matthew that became a country radio hit, but it was
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her collaboration with Morgan Wallen in late twenty twenty four
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a song called Lie to Me that really put her
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on the map. That song went to number twelve on
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the Hot one hundred, introduced her to a mainstream audience
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beyond country radio, and proved she could hold her own
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next to one of the biggest stars in music. And
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then in late twenty twenty five, she released Choosing Texas.
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The song is about a relationship that ended because she
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chose her career over staying put. The Texas in the
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title is both literal and metaphorical. It's about choosing the
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wide open possibility of chasing your dreams over the comfort
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of staying in one place with one person. It's about
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regret and ambition existing in the same space. It's about
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looking back and wondering if you made the right call.
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Ella Coo wrote it with Cameron Jamies and Joy Beth Taylor.
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The production is restrained. This isn't a big, bombastic country
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pop crossover. It's a ballad, a real one, the kind
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where the vocal and the lyric do most of the
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work and the production just supports them. And that restraint
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is part of why it works in a pop landscape
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that's increasingly maximalist, layers of production, constant hooks, everything fighting
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for your attention. Choosing Texas asks you to slow down
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and listen. It trusts that you'll pay attention if the
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song is good enough. The song was released in November
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twenty twenty five. It entered the Hot one hundred in December,
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and on February fourteenth, twenty twenty six, Valentine's Day, it
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hit number one for the first time. That first run
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at number one lasted one week before Taylor Swift knocked
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it off, then it came back, then Bad Bunny knocked
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it off, then it came back again, then Bruno Mars
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took the top spot, then it came back, then Bts,
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then back, then Olivia Rodrigo with Drop Dead, and as
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of last week, it's back at number one again. Ten
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non consecutive weeks. That pattern losing the top spot and
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then reclaiming it tells you something important about how people
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are consuming this song. It's not just initial excitement. It's
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not just a viral moment that fades. People keep returning
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to it, They keep streaming it, requesting it on radio,
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adding it to playlists, making it part of their lives.
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And that's exactly the kind of pattern you see with
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Songs of the Summer. Now, there's a legitimate concern about
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choosing Texas peaking too early. The song hit number one
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in February. We're now in mid June. That's four months
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of dominance. Can it sustain that energy through July and
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August when the official Songs of the Summer chart is
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being calculated? History suggests it can. Let's look at twenty
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twenty three. Morgan Wallen's Last Night first hit number one
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in mid March of that year. People worried it had
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peaked too early, but Last Night went on to become
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the song of the Summer twenty twenty three. It dominated
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the entire year, not just the spring. And Morgan Wallen
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happens to be Ella Langley's duet partner and mentor. She's
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seen this playbook before. The parallel is almost too perfect.
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Both songs are country ballads that crossed over to mainstream success.
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Both hit number one early in the year and maintained momentum.
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Both are about heartbreak and regret, and both were dismissed
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by some industry observers as too sad, too slow, too
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country to become summer anthems. But here's what those observers miss.
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Summer isn't just about party songs anymore. It hasn't been
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for years. Yes, you have your uptempo bangers, your songs
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that soundtrack pool parties and beach days. But you also
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have your emotional songs, your songs for late night drives
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with the windows down, your songs for sitting on a
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porch after everyone else has gone to bed and thinking
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about your life. Choose in Texas is that kind of song,
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And in a summer when people are still processing everything
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that's happened over the past few years politically, culturally, personally,
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a song about making hard choices and living with regret
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might be exactly what people need. Let's talk about the competition,
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because Choose in Texas isn't running unopposed. The song of
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the Summer race is crowded this year. Pink Pantherists and
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Zara Larson have Stateside, which got a huge boost from
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the Winter Olympics, and has that in Infectious Boots. That's
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my ego boost hook. That's all over TikTok. Harry Styles
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just released Aperture, and anything Harry does becomes a cultural moment.
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Noah Kahan has multiple tracks from The Great Divide that
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are building momentum. Bruno Mars has I Just Might, which
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is pure feel good summer energy, and Olivia Rodrigo's Drop
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Dead just knocked Ella off the top of the Hot
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one hundred. Any one of those songs could make a
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run at Song of the Summer. They're all strong, they
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all have passionate fan bases. They all have the kind
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of hooks and moments that make song stick. But Choosing
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Texas has something they don't. It's already proven. It can
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last ten weeks at number one, non consecutive means the
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song has survived multiple challenges. It's been tested every time
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a new hit comes along and knocks it off the
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top spot. Choose in Texas climbs back. That's resilience. That's
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the kind of staying power that wins Song of the Summer.
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There's also the Megan Moroni connection. When Choosing Texas was
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number one on the Hot one hundred in early March,
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Megan Morony's album Cloud nine was number one on the
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Billboard two hundred. That was the first time in history
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that two female country artists simultaneously top the song and
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album charts. We'll be right back. That moment mattered. It
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showed that country music, and specifically female country artists, we're
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having a genuine mainstream moment, not a crossover attempt, not
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trying to sound like pop. Just great country songs connecting
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with massive audiences, and Choosing Texas is at the center
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of that. Ella Langley isn't trying to be the next
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Taylor Swift or Casey Musgraves in terms of crossing over
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to pure pop. She's making country music that happens to
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be connecting with people people who don't necessarily listen to
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country radio. That's a different kind of crossover. That's the
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song finding the audience, not the artist chasing a different audience.
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Let's talk about the song itself in more detail, because
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if Choosing Texas is going to be Song of the Summer,
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we need to understand why it works. The opening is
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just Ella and a guitar. The first verse establishes the scene.
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She's driving through Texas, remembering someone she left behind. The
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landscape is huge, the feeling is small and lonely. That
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contrast is the emotional core of the song. When the
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chorus hits I chose Texas, I chose me, I chose
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everything I thought I had to be, there's this weight
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to it. She's not celebrating her choice. She's not regretting
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it either. She's just sitting with the complexity of it.
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That nuance is what makes the song feel real. The
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second verse adds pedal steel. The drums come in. The
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production builds, but it never a whelms. You can still
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hear every word Ella's singing. You can still feel the
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space around the vocal. It's a big song that sounds intimate,
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and that's really hard to pull off. And then there's
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the bridge, which is where the song lands its emotional
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knockout punch. Ella's voice cracks just slightly when she sings
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about seeing his face in every sunset. It's a tiny
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imperfection that makes the whole performance feel honest. You believe
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she means every word because you can hear the vulnerability
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in her voice. That bridge is the moment people talk about.
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That's the moment that makes you rewind. That's the moment
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that turns a good song into a song that matters
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to people. Radio has embraced Choosing Texas in a way
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they don't always embrace ballads. Country radio made it a
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massive hit from the start, which isn't surprising, but pop
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radio picked it up too. Adult contemporary playlisted it. Even
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some alternative station started playing it. That's rare for a
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country song, and it's speaks to how widely the song
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is resonating. Streaming numbers back this up. Choosing Texas has
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accumulated over eight hundred million streams on Spotify. It's been
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used in over two million TikTok videos, not always as
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a dance track, but as a soundtrack for people sharing
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their own stories about choosing careers, over relationships, about leaving home,
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about making hard decisions. That's the kind of cultural penetration
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that wins Song of the Summer. It's not just about
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the numbers. It's about the song becoming part of how
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people express themselves. Now, let's address the elephant in the room.
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Can a ballad actually win Song of the Summer? The
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conventional wisdom says, no song of the summer is supposed
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to be up tempo. It's supposed to be fun. It's
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supposed to be the song you blast with the windows down,
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the song that plays at every party, the song that
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makes you want to dance. But that conventional wisdom is outdated.
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Look at the past few years of songs of the summer. Yes,
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you have Your Espresso by Sabrina Carpenter in twenty twenty four,
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up tempo, fun summary, but you also have songs like
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Billie Eilish's Birds of a Feather, which is mid tempo
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and melancholic. You have Morgan Wallen's Last Night in twenty
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twenty three, which is definitely not a party song. The
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definition of song of the summer has evolved. It's not
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just the song that soundtracks beach days anymore. It's the
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song that soundtracks the entire summer experience, the highs and
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the lows, the parties and the quiet moments, the joy
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and the heartbreak. And summer is when people have time
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to feel things. Schools out, work slows down for a
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lot of people. You have long evenings and lazy weekends.
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You have space to reflect and sometimes the song that
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captures that reflective mood is the one that sticks with you.
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Choos in Texas works as a summer song because summer
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is often when people make big life decisions. It's when
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you graduate and figure out what's next. It's when you
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take that job in a different city. It's when you
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break up with someone because you know you want different things.
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Summer is a season of change, and Choosing Texas is
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a song about change. So where does Choos in Texas
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stand right now in the Song of the Summer race?
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It's the front runner, not just because it's had the
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most weeks at number one, not just because it's been
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the most consistent performer, but because it has all the
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elements that make a song of the summer cultural impact, streaming, dominance,
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radio support across multiple formats, a story that resonates with
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people's lives and staying power. The song has survived every
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challenge thrown at it. Every time a new hit arrives
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and threatens to end its run, Choosing Texas proves it's
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not done yet. That's the sign of a true phenomenon.
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Can it hold on through July and August? Can it
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fend off the competition from Harry Styles, Bruno, mars Olivia, Rodrigo,
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and everyone else making a run at summer dominance. Based
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on what we've seen so far, I'd say yes, Choosing
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Texas has already proven it can last. It's already shown
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that people don't get tired of it. It's already demonstrated
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that it can coexist with other massive hits and still
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come out on top. But the race isn't over. The
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official Songs of the Summer chart doesn't debut until after
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Memorial Day, and the tracking period runs through Labor Day.
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We're only halfway through. A lot can happen. That's why
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we're doing this series. Over the next five weeks, we're
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going to profile the other major contenders, Pink Pantherists and
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Zara Larson, Harry Styles, Noah Kahan, Bruno, mars Olivia Rodrigo.
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We're going to look at what each of them brings
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