USA
Billboard Report (excerpt)
'Choosin' Texas' tops Hot 100 for third week
Tuesday, March 17, 2026
by Keith Caulfield & Gary Trust, Los Angeles

Ella Langley's “Choosin’ Texas” rebounds a spot for a third week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song first led the chart in February and added its second frame on top two weeks ago.

“Choosin’ Texas,” on Sawgod / Columbia Records, with Triple Tigers promoting it to country radio, drew 22.7 million official streams (up 4% week over week) and 44.7 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 1%) and sold 6,000 (down 7%) in the United States March 6-12. The single holds at No. 2 on the Streaming Songs chart, after three weeks at No. 1; keeps at its No. 9 high on Radio Songs; and continues for a fifth week at No. 1 on Digital Song Sales. Harry Styles’ “American Girls” blasts in at No. 4 and his former leader “Aperture” vaults 29-9. Both are from his album Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally., which debuts as his fourth No. 1 on the Billboard 200. “American Girls” marks Styles’ ninth Hot 100 top 10 (further outpacing the six that One Direction, with him as a member, tallied in 2012-15, prior to their 2016 split). It also opens as his third No. 1 on Streaming Songs. “Aperture” debuted atop the Hot 100 in February, becoming his third leader.

Olivia Dean’s “Man I Need” rises a spot back to its No. 2 Hot 100 high. Bruno Mars’ “I Just Might” falls to No. 3 after three nonconsecutive weeks atop the Hot 100 beginning in January. It leads Radio Songs for a third week (76.5 million, up 5%). Alex Warren’s “Ordinary” is steady at No. 5 on the Hot 100 after 10 weeks at No. 1 last June-August. PinkPantheress’ “Stateside,” with Zara Larsson, ascends 7-6 for a new Hot 100 high. Huntr/x’s “Golden” lifts 8-7 on the Hot 100 following eight weeks at No. 1 last August-October. Taylor Swift’s “The Fate of Ophelia” climbs 9-8 on the Hot 100, after it began her career-best 10 weeks atop the chart upon its debut in October and led through January, and her “Opalite” falls 6-10, three weeks after it became her 14th leader. Harry Styles’ fourth solo studio album, Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally., debuts at No. 1 on th the Billboard 200 chart (dated March 21) with 430,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States in the week ending March 12, according to Luminate. The set logs the biggest week for any album by units in five months, and also marks Styles’ fourth leader. All four of his solo albums — which also represent his total number of charting titles — have debuted at No. 1: his self-titled debut (in 2017), Fine Line (2019), Harry’s House (2022) and now Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally. Styles is only the second solo male artist to see their first four chart entries debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. He follows DMX, who topped the list with his first five entries between 1998 and 2003 (It’s Dark and Hell Is Hot; Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood; …And Then There Was X; The Great Depression; Grand Champ). Styles is also the first solo artist to debut at No. 1 with their first four entries since Alicia Keys went four-for-four in 2001-07 (Songs in A Minor, The Diary of Alicia Keys, Unplugged and As I Am). Of Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally.’s 430,000 equivalent album units earned in the latest tracking week, pure album sales comprise 291,000 (it debuts as Styles’ fourth No. 1 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 138,500 (equaling 140.31 million on-demand official streams of the set’s 12 songs, it debuts at No. 1 on Top Streaming Albums) and TEA units comprise about 500. Styles notches the biggest week for any album by units earned since Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl debuted at No. 1 with a record-shattering 4.002 million units on the Oct. 18, 2025-dated chart. Styles has the biggest week for any album by a solo male artist since Morgan Wallen’s I’m the Problem launched at No. 1 with 493,000 on the May 31, 2025 chart. Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally’s first-week sales number was bolstered by its availability across multiple physical editions, including seven vinyl variants (inclusive of a deluxe boxed set containing an LP and branded merch), six CD variants (inclusive of four deluxe boxed sets containing a CD and branded merch) and a cassette. It was also available as a standard digital download. All versions of the album contain the same 12 songs. Styles’ sales week is the biggest for any album since Showgirl started with 3.48 million, and the biggest for a male solo artist since The Weeknd’s Hurry Up Tomorrow debuted at No. 1 with 359,000 on the Feb. 15, 2025 chart. Notably, vinyl purchases accounted for 186,000 of Styles’ first week — the biggest week for an album on vinyl by a male artist in the modern era (since Luminate began electronically tracking sales in 1991). He beats his own record among male acts, set with his last album, 2022’s Harry’s House, when it bowed with 182,000 vinyl sales. Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally. has the overall seventh-largest sales week for a vinyl album in the modern era — the six larger weeks were all logged by Swift titles. The biggest week for a vinyl set in the modern era was registered by the opening week of Showgirl, with 1.334 million. Of Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally.’s 430,000 equivalent album units earned in the latest tracking week, pure album sales comprise 291,000 (it debuts as Styles’ fourth No. 1 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 138,500 (equaling 140.31 million on-demand official streams of the set’s 12 songs, it debuts at No. 1 on Top Streaming Albums) and TEA units comprise about 500. Styles notches the biggest week for any album by units earned since Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl debuted at No. 1 with a record-shattering 4.002 million units on the Oct. 18, 2025-dated chart. Styles has the biggest week for any album by a solo male artist since Morgan Wallen’s I’m the Problem  launched at No. 1 with 493,000 on the May 31, 2025 chart. In its second week on the Billboard 200, Bruno Mars’ The Romantic falls a spot to No. 2 with 80,000 equivalent album units earned (down 57%). Three more chart-toppers round out the top five, as Wallen’s I’m the Problem is steady at No. 3 (76,000, up 1%), Bad Bunny’s DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS dips 2-4 (67,000, down 13%) and Don Toliver’s OCTANE slips 4-5 (60,000, down 9%). Oliver Dean’s The Art of Loving falls a spot to No. 6 with 58,000 equivalent album units earned (down 2%). Four former No. 1s close out the top 10, as Megan Moroney’s Cloud 9 drops 6-7 (40,000 equivalent album units earned, down 27%), Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl is up a spot to No. 8 (39,000, down 8%), Wallen’s One Thing at a Time jumps 14-9 (37,000, up 3%), and SZA’s SOS climbs 12-10 (36,000, down 2%).

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United Kingdom
Music Week Report (excerpt)
'American Girls' catapults at number one
Monday, March 16, 2026
by Alan Jones, London
 
Six weeks after topping the chart with Aperture – the first hit from his new album Kiss All The Time: Disco, Occasionally (KATTDO) – Harry Styles returns to No.1 with American Girls. Debuting in pole position on consumption of 64,056 units (2,742 digital downloads and 61,314 sales-equivalent streams),

it also features on KATTDO, which simultaneously debuts atop the album chart. It is the second time that Styles has done the coveted double of having the No.1 single and album simultaneously, having previously done so in 2022 with As It Was and Harry’s House. KATTDO is the first album by Styles to spawn two No.1 singles, and is his fourth solo No.1 in all, in addition to the five he scored as a member of One Direction. In early sales flashes it looked as though KATTDO might supply all of this week’s Top 3 singles – something Harry’s House managed – but after initially looking set to be runner-up, the resurgent Aperture moves 10-4 (46,915 sales), while Ready, Steady, Go!, which was on course for No.3, debuts at No.5 (40,288 sales). Styles has now had 19 solo chart entries to go with the 29 he scored as a member of One Direction – but were it not for the primary artist rule that restricts him (and anyone else) to having only three simultaneous hits, each of the other nine

songs on KATTDO would be charting. For the record, they are ‘starred-out’ between No.6 and No.13, whilst on the Top 200 tracks chart, the lowest placed of the 12 KATTDO is No.27. Aside from those allocated Top 75 positions, the top tracks are: Taste Back (38,939 sales), Are You Listening Yet (36,946 sales) and Coming Up Roses (36,007 sales). Ousted by Styles after three weeks at No.1, Rein Me In slips to No.2 (61,059 sales) for Sam Fender & Olivia Dean, while the latter’s Top 10 solo hits are also buffeted: So Easy (To Fall In Love) recedes 5-7 (36,061 sales) while Man I Need dips 8-10. On ACR for the 20th time in its 30-week chart tenure, Man I Need by Olivia Dean has adjusted consumption of 29,448 units. On the unadjusted Top 200 Combined Tracks chart – where it doesn’t have its streaming points halved – the track has spent 11 weeks at No.1 but this week dips to No.3 (58,134 sales). Man I Need has now spent 26 weeks in the Top 10, more than all but 10 other songs in chart history, even though only the first 10 of those weeks were in its pre-ACR era. Bella Kay’s Iloveitiloveitilovet eases 2-3 but is really still growing, increasing consumption 24.84% week-on-week to 56,337 units. It continues to spearhead her triple chart assault, which also sees rises for The Sick (41-33, 11,913 sales) and Steady (63-49, 8,148 sales). The rest of the Top 10: Stateside (4-6, 40,214 sales) by PinkPantheress, Fever Dream (3-8, 32,516 sales) by Alex Warren and Homewrecker (7-9, 31,233 sales) by Sombr. Overall singles consumption is up 0.14% week-on-week to 31,767,785 units, 3.64% above same week 2025 sales of 30,652,612 units. Paid-for sales are down 6.21% week-on-week at 252,882, 0.41% below same week 2025 sales of 253,921. Wild about Harry: Scorching to No.1 for the week and No.2 for the year-to-date, Harry Styles’ fourth solo album, Kiss All The Time: Disco, Occasionally (KATTDO) racks up impressive first week consumption of 183,045 units. Outselling the rest of the Top 30 combined – with more than 10 times the 17,606 sales that earn Olivia Dean’s The Art Of Loving the runners-up spot for the fourth time in a row, and 13th time in total – KATTDO is the first album to exceed 100K units since Taylor Swift’s The Life Of A Showgirl opened with 423,444 units last October (22 weeks ago). It has the highest first week sale for a British act since Coldplay’s Moon Music debuted at No.1 with 236,796 units in October 2024 (74 weeks ago) and the highest for a male soloist – British or otherwise – since Ed Sheeran’s Divide set the all-time record for a solo male nine years ago today (471 weeks), when it racked up first week consumption of 671,542 units. Six vinyl editions of KATTDO contribute a massive 66,391 sales – 36.27% of its overall DUS – to the album’s tally, which also includes 67,499 CDs, 4,339 cassettes, 2,448 digital downloads and 42,368 sales-equivalent streams. It is the second highest weekly vinyl sale achieved by any album this century, trailing only the 125,592 copies that The Life Of A Showgirl racked up on its debut last year (and beating Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department by just three). Instantly becoming the 58th biggest-selling album on vinyl in the 21st century, KATTDO nevertheless trails Styles’ earlier albums Harry’s House (23rd with 110,513 units) and Fine Line (34th with 88.982 units) but leapfrogs his eponymous debut (72nd with 60,697 units). Thirty-eight years to the week since he released his chart-topping debut solo album Viva Hate, Smiths alumnus Morrissey scores his 14th consecutive Top 10 solo studio set with Make-Up Is A Lie, debuting at No.3 (8,593 sales). Including compilations and live sets, it is the 16th Top 10 and 22nd Top 75 album for the dour 66-year-old Mancunian, who also has nine Top 10 albums and 14 Top 75 albums with The Smiths. The rest of the Top 10: 50 Years: Don’t Stop (6-4, 8,158 sales) by Fleetwood Mac, The Romantic (3-5, 7,368 sales) by Bruno Mars, You’ll Be Alright Kid (7-6, 6,896 sales) by Alex Warren, The Essential (8-7, 6,761 sales) by Michael Jackson, +-=÷× Tour Collection (10-8, 6,473 sales) by Ed Sheeran, The Highlights (9-9, 6,433 sales) by The Weeknd and The Mountain (1-10, 5,622 sales) by Gorillaz. Overall album sales are up 3.25% week-on-week at 2,671,789 units, 4.23% above same week 2025 sales of 2,563,451. Physical product accounts for 420,774 sales, 15.75% of the total.