USA
Billboard Report (excerpt)
'Choosin' Texas' tops Hot 100 for a fourth week
Tuesday, March 24, 2026
by Keith Caulfield & Gary Trust, Los Angeles

Ella Langley's “Choosin’ Texas” holds for a historic fourth week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song first led in mid-February and added its second week on top at the beginning of

March. “Choosin’ Texas” solely claims the most weeks ever spent atop the Hot 100 for a song by a woman that also hit No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart, one-upping Taylor Swift’s three-week Hot 100 reign with “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” in 2012. “Choosin’ Texas,” on Sawgod/Columbia Records, with Triple Tigers promoting it to country radio, drew 21.8 million official streams (down 4% week over week) and 43.6 million radio airplay audience impressions (down 3%) and sold 6,000 (down 1%) in the United States March 13-19. The single rebounds a spot for a fourth week at No. 1 on the Streaming Songs chart; repeats at its No. 9 best on Radio Songs; and dips to No. 2 after five weeks atop Digital Song Sales. Olivia Dean earns her second Hot 100 top 10 as “So Easy (To Fall in Love)” rises 11-9. The song drew 11.6 million streams (down 11%) and 32.2 million in airplay audience (up 20%) and sold 2,000 (up 13%) in the tracking week.

Meanwhile, the London-born singer-songwriter’s “Man I Need” holds at its No. 2 Hot 100 high, as it logs its fifth nonconsecutive week as runner-up. With “Man I Need” having first hit the Hot 100’s top 10 in November, Dean has notched her first two top 10s in less than five months. That’s the fastest accumulation of two initial top 10s for a solo woman since her Island Records labelmate Sabrina Carpenter tallied her first two with “Espresso” in April 2024 and “Please Please Please” less than two months later (with, as with Dean this week, both songs in the top 10 together at the time). Bruno Mars’ “I Just Might” keeps at No. 3 after three nonconsecutive weeks atop the Hot 100 in January to mid-March. It leads Radio Songs for a fourth week with 81.5 million in audience (up 7%) — becoming the first song to surpass 80 million in weekly airplay reach since Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” (82 million, Sept. 7, 2024). Alex Warren’s “Ordinary” ascends 5-4 on the Hot 100 after 10 weeks at No. 1 last June-August. Huntr/x’s “Golden” climbs 7-5 on the Hot 100 following eight weeks at No. 1 last August-October. It sports an 11% gain to 12.3 million streams in the week ending March 19, after the trio performed it and it won the Academy Award March 15 for best original song, while parent movie KPop Demon Hunters took home the Oscar for best animated feature. It also soars 9-1 for a sixth week atop Digital Song Sales (6,000, up 185%). PinkPantheress’ “Stateside,” with Zara Larsson, is steady at its No. 6 Hot 100 high. Taylor Swift’s “Opalite” rises 10-7 on the Hot 100, a month after it led for one week, and “The Fate of Ophelia” holds at No. 8, after it began her career-best 10 weeks in charge of the chart upon its debut in October and led through January. Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, Harry Styles’ “American Girls” falls to No. 10 a week after it debuted at No. 4. Harry Styles’ Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally. spends a second week atop the Billboard 200 chart (dated March 28), following its debut at No. 1 a week ago. In the latest tracking week, ending March 19, the set earned 99,000 equivalent album units in the United States, according to Luminate. That’s down 77% compared to its opening sum of 430,000. Of Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally.’s 99,000 equivalent album units earned in the latest tracking week, SEA units comprise 74,000 (down 47%, equaling 75.10 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs; it’s No. 1 on Top Streaming Albums for a second week), album sales comprise 24,500 (down 92%, falling 1-3 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise 500 (down 33%). Back on the latest Billboard 200, Morgan Wallen's I’m the Problem rises 3-2 with 74,000 equivalent album units earned (down 3%). Johnny Blue Skies (formerly Sturgill Simpson) & the Dark Clouds' Mutiny After Midnight debuts at No. 3 with 59,000 equivalent album units earned — all from physical album sales. It’s the best week yet, by units earned or album sales, for the artist. It’s the second top 10-charting project for Simpson, following the No. 3-peaking A Sailor’s Guide to Earth in 2016. Mutiny After Midnight is currently only available on CD, vinyl and cassette. No release date has been announced for a streaming version or a digital download for purchase. Mutiny After Midnight marks the first album exclusively available on physical formats to reach the top 10 in nearly three years. The last to do so was Taylor Swift’s Record Store Day-exclusive vinyl release Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions on the May 6, 2023-dated chart. That set, sold only at independent record stores, debuted and peaked at No. 3 with 75,000 copies sold (the entirety of its production run) in its first week. P1Harmony earns its highest-charting album and second top 10 on the Billboard 200, as Unique debuts at No. 4. The set earned 58,000 equivalent album units in its first week, the group’s best week by units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 56,000 (the act’s best sales week; it debuts at No. 2 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 2,000 (equaling 2.22 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. The group previously visited the top 10 on the Billboard 200 with Ex in 2025, debuting and peaking at No. 9. A pair of former No. 1s follows P1Harmony, as: Bad Bunny’s DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS falls 4-5 (57,000, down 14%) and Don Toliver’s OCTANE descends 5-6 (56,000, down 7%). Olivia Dean’s The Art of Loving dips 6-7 (55,000, down 6%), and Bruno Mars’ chart-topping The Romantic drops 2-8 (54,000, down 32%). Tate McRae’s former leader So Close to What surges 20-9 with 43,000 equivalent album units earned (up 61%) after the release of its deluxe edition on vinyl and CD. Rounding out the top 10 is the chart-topping KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack, stepping 11-10 with 38,000 equivalent album units earned (up 9%). The set notches its first gain in six weeks, following the movie’s double-win at the Academy Awards on March 15, when it won best animated feature and best original song (“Golden”).

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United Kingdom
Music Week Report (excerpt)
'Rein Me In' turns back to the summit
Monday, March 23, 2026
by Alan Jones, London
 
Dethroned last week by Harry Styles’ American Girls, Rein Me In returns to No.1 for Sam Fender & Olivia Dean, increasing consumption 0.59% week-on-week to 61,422 units (21 7” singles, 979 digital downloads and 60,422 sales-equivalent streams). Previously No.1 for three weeks, Rein Me In is in its

39th consecutive week in the Top 40 – the deepest into its initial chart run that any song has ever been No.1 – and its 22nd week in the Top 10, the last 12 consecutively. In all its previous weeks at No.1, it actually had lower consumption than Dean’s solo cut, Man I Need, and won out only because the latter had its streaming points halved as it was on ACR. Rein Me In won fair and square this week, with Man I Need’s unadjusted consumption ebbing to 56,771 units. Man I Need’s adjusted consumption is down too, but the track holds at No.10 (28,725 units), as it extends its run in the Top 10 to 27 weeks. Dean’s So Easy (To Fall In Love) rebounds 7-5 on reduced consumption of 34,491 units, holding down a place in the Top 10 for the 12th time in a row and 22nd time in all. Courtesy of the three titles named, Dean is only the second act in chart history to have three songs spend a minimum of 20 weeks in the Top 10, emulating Ed Sheeran, who completed his hat trick

in 2021. Logging increased consumption for the 7th week in a row, Bella Kay’s Iloveitiloveitiloveit returns to peak, climbing 3-2 (60,233 sales). Harry Styles had three songs in the Top 5 last week, and scored his fourth No.1 with American Girls. All suffer substantial dips in consumption week-on-week with American Girls retreating to No.3 (46,343 sales), Aperture ebbing 4-6 (31,673 sales) and Ready Steady Go, being the week’s only Top 10 departee, sliding 5-15 (22,898 sales). Rebounding below their peaks are Stateside (6-4, 37,826 sales) by PinkPantheress, Homewrecker (9-7, 30,941 sales) by Sombr and Lush Life (11-8, 29,212 sales) by Zara Larsson. Fever Dream (8-9, 29,183 sales) by Alex Warren completes the Top 10. Overall singles consumption is up 1.25% week-on-week to 32,166,470 units, 5.12% above same week 2025 sales of 30,598,496 units. Paid-for sales are down 3.20% week-on-week at 244,784, 0.62% above same week 2025 sales of 243,266. Harry Styles continues atop the chart, with fourth solo album Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally still well ahead of the field, despite its consumption dipping to 26,524 units. The first album by a British act to spend its first two weeks at No.1 since Lewis Capaldi’s Broken By Desire To Be Heavenly Sent in 2023, it is deeply indebted to streaming, which this week provides 83.56% (22,164 units) of its overall consumption, compared to just 23.15% last week. By the same token, pure sales’ share of the pie dips from 76.85% to 16.44% (2,179 CDs, 1,695 vinyl albums, 40 cassettes and 446 digital downloads). Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally’s overall consumption this week is 85.51% below its first week tally, surpassing the second week fall-offs of his previous solo albums Harry Styles (2017, 62.22%), Fine Line (2019, 61.44%) and Harry’s House (2022, 68.87%). Styles has now spent eight weeks at No.1 in the 2020s – 2022’s Harry’s House was No.1 for six weeks in four runs at the top) – moving ahead of Lewis Capaldi, Sabrina Carpenter and Olivia Dean in that metric to place third for the decade behind Taylor Swift (32 weeks) and Ed Sheeran (10 weeks). James Blake racked up four Top 10 and five Top 20 albums before sixth album, Playing Robots Into Heaven peaked at No.108 in 2023. Trying Times, his critically-lauded first album in partnership with Los Angeles label Good Boy, surpasses the peak positions of all its predecessors, debuting at No.3 (12,200 sales). The 37-year-old London singer/songwriter’s fifth album, Friends That Break Your Heart, was his highest-charting set hitherto, reaching No.4 in 2021, while his eponymous 2011 debut set, which peaked at No.9 is his most-consumed title with to-date consumption of 98,284 units, with Overgrown (No.8, 2013, 87,414 units) and Assume Form (No.6, 2019, 45,965 units), completing his personal top three. Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally moves to the top of the year-to-date rankings, with consumption of 209,572 units placing it ahead of Olivia Dean’s The Art Of Loving (208,793 units), the latter album being No.2 for the fifth week in a row, and, and 14th time in total, on consumption of 16,137 units. No.2 on debut 55 weeks ago, Canadian singer/songwriter Tate McRae’s third album, So Close To What, returns to the Top 10 after an absence of nine weeks, surging 22-5 (7,429 sales), following the release of a deluxe edition, adding five tracks, including most recent hits Tit For Tat, Anything But Love and Nobody’s Girl. It now hosts eight of her 19 hits. Released in 2022 and No.1 in 2024, Noah Kahan’s breakthrough third album, Stick Season, jumps 14-10 (5,651 sales) to return to the Top 10 after an absence of 36 weeks, with interest fuelled by the release of Porch Light, the new single from his upcoming fourth album, The Great Divide. The rest of the Top 10: 50 Years: Don’t Stop (4-4, 8,372 sales) by Fleetwood Mac, The Essential (7-6, 6,813 sales) by Michael Jackson, The Highlights (9-7, 6,694 sales) by The Weeknd, +-=÷× Tour Collection (8-8, 6,627 sales) by Ed Sheeran and You’ll Be Alright Kid (6-9, 6,422 sales) by Alex Warren. Overall album sales are down 4.43% week-on-week at 2,553,326 units, 2.04% above same week 2025 sales of 2,502,387. Physical product accounts for 272,433 sales, 10.67% of the total.