Ella Langley is getting her flowers on Billboard’s charts (dated April 25), thanks to the debut of her album Dandelion.
Released April 10 via SAWGOD/Columbia Records, the singer-songwriter’s new album launches at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 169,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States in its opening week (April 10-16), according to Luminate. Langley earns her first leader on the chart, as it arrives with the top weekly total for an album by a woman this year and the biggest one-week sum among country albums by women since Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter in 2024.
Langley concurrently jump two spots to No. 1 on the Billboard Artist 100 chart, where she also leads for the first time. She becomes just the fourth woman to top the chart in its 12-year history on the heels of a country album, following Carrie Underwood, who spent a week at No. 1 in September 2018, Taylor Swift (multiple weeks on top via re-recordings of country projects Red and Fearless) and Megan Moroney, who ruled for the first time last month.
Langley also places 15 songs from Dandelion on the Billboard Hot 100, led by seven-week No. 1 “Choosin’ Texas.” Here’s a recap of her entries on the chart (all debuts except where noted).
Rank, Title:
No. 1, “Choosin’ Texas” (No. 1 for seventh week)
No. 4, “Be Her” (up from No. 8; new high)
No. 20, “Bottom of Your Boots”
No. 21, “Loving Life Again” (up from No. 38; new high)
No. 27, “Dandelion” (up from No. 46; new high)
No. 53, “Broken”
No. 54, “We Know Us”
No. 55, “You & Me Time”
No. 62, “Low Lights”
No. 63, “Speaking Terms”
No. 71, “Butterfly Season,” with Miranda Lambert
No. 75, “Somethin’ Simple”
No. 76, “Last Call for Us”
No. 80, “I Gotta Quit”
No. 83, “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels”
As Langley simultaneously rules the Artist 100, Hot 100 and Billboard 200, she becomes just the sixth woman to lead all three charts in the same week (dating to the Artist 100’s 2014 launch), joining Swift, Adele, Beyoncé, Ariana Grande and Olivia Rodrigo. The only other artists to lead all three in the same week this year are Swift (on the Jan. 10-dated chart) and Bruno Mars (March 14).
Langley also becomes just the 11th woman to top the Billboard 200 this century with a country album. Here’s a chronological rundown of every such set by a woman or all-woman act (based on titles that have hit Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart).
Title, Artist, Peak Date:
Home, The Chicks, Sept. 14, 2002
Cry, Faith Hill, Nov. 2, 2002
Up!, Shania Twain, Dec. 7, 2002
Fireflies, Faith Hill, Aug. 20, 2005
All Jacked Up, Gretchen Wilson, Oct. 15, 2005
Taking the Long Way, The Chicks, June 10, 2006
Reba Duets, Reba McEntire, Oct. 6, 2007
Carnival Ride, Carrie Underwood, Nov. 10, 2007
Fearless, Taylor Swift, Nov. 29, 2008
Keep on Loving You, Reba, Sept. 5, 2009
Play On, Carrie Underwood, Nov. 21, 2009
Speak Now, Taylor Swift, Nov. 13, 2010
Blown Away, Carrie Underwood, May 19, 2012
Red, Taylor Swift, Nov. 10, 2012
Platinum, Miranda Lambert, June 21, 2014
Now, Shania Twain, Oct. 21, 2017
Cry Pretty, Carrie Underwood, Sept. 29, 2018
Fearless (Taylor’s Version), Taylor Swift, April 24, 2021
Red (Taylor’s Version), Taylor Swift, Nov. 27, 2021
Speak Now (Taylor’s Version), Taylor Swift, July 22, 2023
Cowboy Carter, Beyoncé, April 13, 2024
Cloud 9, Megan Moroney, March 7, 2026
Dandelion, Ella Langley, April 25, 2026
The Artist 100 measures acts’ activity across key metrics of music consumption: album sales, track sales, radio airplay and streaming. Using a methodology comprising those metrics, the chart provides a weekly multi-dimensional ranking of artist popularity.
