USA
Billboard Report (excerpt)
'Choosin' Texas' adds a second week at No.1
Tuesday, March 3, 2026
by Keith Caulfield & Gary Trust, Los Angeles

Ella Langley's “Choosin’ Texas” twirls back to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, adding a second week atop the chart. Up from the runner-up spot, it first led the list three weeks earlier.

“Choosin’ Texas,” on Sawgod / Columbia Records, with Triple Tigers handling country radio promotion, drew 20.4 million official streams (down 4% week over week) and 41.8 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 5%) and sold 6,000 (down 19%) in the United States Feb. 20-26. The single rebounds 2-1 for a third week atop both the Streaming Songs and Digital Song Sales charts and holds at its No. 9 high on Radio Songs. Alex Warren’s “Ordinary” ascends 5-3 on the Hot 100 after 10 weeks at No. 1 last June-August. It claims a 33rd week in the Hot 100’s top three, rewriting the record for the most time logged in the medal region, breaking out of a tie with Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You.” (The carol is set to continue challenging for the feat, given its annual resurgence, along with Brenda Lee’s holiday classic, below.) Olivia Dean’s “Man I Need” climbs a spot back to its No. 2 Hot 100 high. Taylor Swift’s “Opalite” falls to No. 4 on

the Hot 100, a week after it became her 14th leader. Bruno Mars’ “I Just Might” rises 6-5 after it spent its first two weeks on the Hot 100 at No. 1 in January. It leads Radio Songs for a second week (68.3 million, up 5%). Huntr/x’s “Golden” glows 7-6 on the Hot 100 following eight weeks at No. 1 last August-October and Swift’s “The Fate of Ophelia” lifts 8-7, after it began her career-best 10 weeks atop the chart upon its debut in October and led through January. Bad Bunny’s “DtMF” drops 4-8 on the Hot 100, two weeks after it hit No. 1. Sombr’s “Back to Friends” bumps 11-9 on the Hot 100, after reaching No. 7. Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, Kehlani’s “Folded” rises 13-10, after hitting No. 6. Megan Moroney earns her first No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, as Cloud 9 debuts atop the list dated March 7. The set is the singer-songwriter’s third studio effort and starts with 147,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States in the week ending Feb. 26, according to Luminate. That marks the biggest week for a country album by a woman in nearly two years. Of Cloud 9’s 147,000 equivalent album units earned in the latest tracking week, album sales comprise 78,000 (Moroney’s best sales week; it debuts as her first No. 1 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 69,000 (equaling 71.54 million on-demand official streams of the set’s tracks, her best streaming week; it debuts at No. 2 on Top Streaming Albums) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. Cloud 9 is the second top 10, and third chart entry, for Moroney. She previously hit the chart with Am I Okay? (No. 9 in 2024) and Lucky (No. 38 in 2023). Cloud 9 also marks the first country album by a woman to be No. 1 on the Billboard 200 since Beyoncé spent two weeks atop the list with her first country effort, Cowboy Carter, on the charts dated April 13 and 20, 2024. The album was preceded by four charting tracks on Billboard’s charts, all of which reached the top 40 on the Hot Country Songs chart (“6 Months Later,” “Beautiful Things,” “Wish I Didn’t” and the title track). “6 Months Later” also scored Moroney her highest-charting hit on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100 when it reached No. 29 in January. Bad Bunny’s DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS falls to No. 2 on the Billboard 200, with 85,000 equivalent album units earned (down 37%). After more than a decade, Hilary Duff returns to the Billboard 200 chart with luck… or something debuting at No. 3. The set, her first studio album since 2015’s Breathe In. Breathe Out., arrives with 84,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 73,000 (her best sales week since 2007; it debuts at No. 2 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 11,000 (equaling 11.51 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. In total, luck… or something gives the singer-actor her fifth top 10, following Breathe In. Breathe Out. (No. 5 peak in 2015), Dignity (No. 3, 2007), Most Wanted (No. 1, 2005), her self-titled effort (No. 2, 2004) and Metamorphosis (No. 1, 2003). Baby Keem clocks his second top 10 — and highest-charting album yet — as Ca$ino cashes in with a No. 4 debut. The set earned 72,000 equivalent album units in its first week. Of that sum, SEA units comprise 55,500 (equaling 56.67 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs; it debuts at No. 5 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 16,500 (his best sales week, it debuts at No. 4 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. Morgan Wallen’s chart-topping I’m the Problem moves 4-5 on the latest Billboard 200 (nearly 71,000 equivalent album units earned, down 8%) and Don Toliver’s former No. 1 OCTANE falls 3-6 (68,000 units, down 13%). Olivia Dean’s The Art of Loving dips 5-7 (61,000 units, down 15%) while two former No. 1s follow, as J. Cole’s The Fall-Off slides 2-8 (53,000 units, down 34%) and Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl is a non-mover at No. 9 (44,000 units, down 13%). Rounding out the top 10 is Mumford & Sons’ Prizefighter, punching in at No. 10 with nearly 44,000 equivalent album units earned. It’s the sixth top 10-charted effort for the band, and comes less than a year after its previous studio release, Rushmere. Of the new album’s first-week units, album sales comprise 25,000 (it debuts at No. 3 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 18,500 (equaling 18.69 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs, it debuts at No. 32 on Top Streaming Albums) and TEA units comprise 500.

Record Of The Month
'I Just Might' by Bruno Mars is the first big global release of 2026
and also the first sign of his new album 'The Romantic', available February 27.

United Kingdom
Music Week Report (excerpt)
The collab 'Rein Me In' holds number one
Monday, March 2, 2026
by Alan Jones, London
 
The reign of ‘Rein’ continues, with Sam Fender & Olivia Dean’s Rein Me In at a standstill for the first time in its 36-week chart career, taking pole position for the second week in a row on consumption of 46,272 units (nine 7-inch vinyl, 851 digital downloads and 45,412 sales-equivalent streams). That’s a

6.56% increase week-on-week, to its highest level yet, and raises its cumulative consumption to 987,042 units, making the song, which is among the nominees for Song Of The Year at tomorrow’s BRIT Awards, Fender’s fourth most-consumed title, and Dean’s second. The Dean track ahead of it is, of course, Man I Need which, with its usual ACR handicap, dips 4-7 this week, with adjusted consumption of 27,906 units. It remains at No.1 on the Top 200 Combined Tracks chart – where ACR and primary artist rules don’t exist – topping the list for the 11th time, on unadjusted consumption of 55,235 units. This is its record 26th straight week above 50,000 units. Dean also continues at No.2 on the main chart, with So Easy (To Fall In Love) (34,116 sales). Previously moving 93-63-39-26, American singer/songwriter Bella Kay’s Iloveitiloveitiloveit makes another explosive jump, climbing 22 places to No.4 as it racks up a 114.55% increase in consumption

week-on-week to 29,595 units. Originally from Texas, the 20-year-old singer/songwriter finally makes her homeland Hot 100 debut this week, with Iloveitiloveitiloveit opening at No.66. Three years after she reached No.2 with Boy’s A Liar, PinkPantheress scores her second Top.3 hit with Stateside. Surging 9-3 (30,139 sales) 43 weeks after it debuted at No.66, the track has taken on a new lease of life since the release of the Zara Larsson duet version earlier this year. Larsson is not listed on the chart credits, as the track was a hit before the duet version emerged – and her own viral resurgence, 2016 hit Lush Life, is one of the tracks swatted aside by Stateside’s dash, falling 3-6 (28,496 sales). Homewrecker becomes the second Top 5 hit for Sombr, improving 7-5 (28,985 sales). Rounding out the Top 10: I Just Might (6-8, 27,476 sales) by Bruno Mars, Opalite (8-9, 24,859 sales) by Taylor Swift and DTMF (5-10, 22,453 sales) by Bad Bunny. Overall singles consumption is down 1.61% week-on-week to 31,032,753 units, 2.45% above same week 2025 sales of 30,292,048 units. Paid-for sales are down 0.03% week-on-week at 254,721, 4.75% below same week 2025 sales of 267,424. Changing up their style, and featuring collaborations with Hozier, Chris Stapleton, Gigi Perez and Gracie Abrams, Prizefighter is the sixth studio album by British folk/rock trio Mumford & Sons, and delivers a knock-out blow to the opposition. Prizefighter becomes the 1,400th No.1 in the 70-year history of the chart, debuting at the summit on first week consumption of 35,505 units (22,253 CDs, 5,627 vinyl albums, 2,379 cassettes, 1,036 digital downloads and 4,210 sales-equivalent streams). Released a mere 47 weeks after its predecessor, Rushmere, opened at No.1 on slightly larger consumption of 35,655 units, it is Mumford & Sons’ fourth chart-topper in all, the others being second album, Babel (2012) and third album, Wilder Mind (2015). Their debut release, Sigh No More, opened at No.11 with 15,728 sales in 2009, peaking 71 weeks later at No.2, and is the band’s most-consumed title with a to-date tally of 1,902,890 units. Little Mix racked up seven straight Top 5 albums – all six of their studio releases and compilation Between Us – between 2012 and 2021 but have been on hiatus since 2022. However, all three of the band’s theoretically current members have released and charted their introductory solo albums in the last six months… and each has reached No.3. The last to do so, Leigh-Anne (Pinnock) debuts at No.3 (10,545 sales) this week, with My Ego Told Me To, on which she co-wrote all the songs. The first of the group to deliver a solo album was Jade (Thirlwall), whose introductory release, That’s Showbiz Baby! debuted at No.3 (23,262 sales) last September, a fortnight before Perrie (Edwards) also opened at No.3, on consumption of 15,243 units with her eponymous introductory solo album. Jade’s album went silver earlier this month, and has to-date consumption of 62,110 units, while Perrie’s has a to-date tally of 24,499 units. Despite having no hit singles for 19 years, and no prior Top 20 album, actress and singer Hilary Duff makes a triumphant return with sixth studio album, Luck… Or Something storming to a No.5 debut (9,532 sales). It is her first album since Breathe In, Breathe Out peaked at a lowly No.91 in 2015, and it has already eclipsed that title’s cumulative sales of 8,206 units for the 38-year-old Texan. George Michael’s solo debut album Faith has been very scarce in physical formats for years but its simultaneous release in new CD, blu-ray and vinyl variants – some with the 13-minute I Want Your Sex (Monogamy Mix) as a bonus – propel the album to re-enter at No.4 (9,627 sales). That’s its first chart appearance since 2017, and its highest position since it debuted at No.1 in 1987. The rest of the Top 10: The Art Of Loving (2-2, 16,169 sales) by Olivia Dean, 50 Years: Don’t Stop (3-6, 8,376 sales) by Fleetwood Mac, The Essential (6-7, 7,195 sales) by Michael Jackson, Wuthering Heights (1-8, 7,020 sales) by Charli XCX, The Highlights (4-9, 6,698 sales) by The Weeknd and +-=÷× Tour Collection (7-10, 6,325 sales) by Ed Sheeran. Overall album sales are down 1.50% week-on-week at 2,511,818 units, 3.13% below same week 2025 sales of 2,592,963. Physical product accounts for 290,896 sales, 11.58% of the total.