Ella Langley is hitting a new high note in 2026 with her RIAA platinum-certified, five-week Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hit “Choosin’ Texas,” which set a new record for 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.
The heartbreak song’s irresistible groove and all-too-relatable storyline have brought Langley’s career to new heights. She further elaborated on the song’s story arc with a star-studded music video, which featured Langley alongside Luke Grimes, Miranda Lambert, Kaitlin Butts and Ava Phillippe, as well as a host of other notables making cameos.
But with her new album Dandelion, out Friday (April 10), the Alabama native proves she’s got plenty more songs to resonate with fans. Throughout the album, she offers songs that center on love, heartbreak, faith and staying close to her roots while evolving, both creatively and personally.
Langley executive produced the album along with Miranda Lambert and Ben West, and worked with co-writers including Lambert, Joybeth Taylor, Luke Dick, Austin Goodloe, Laura Veltz, ERNEST and Devin Dawson to craft a collection of songs that convey ever-increasing depths of unfiltered honesty and keen, observational perspectives.
The album is bookended with snippets of her version of the traditional folk nursery rhyme “Froggy Went A-Courtin’.” Back in 2024 during an appearance on the God’s Country Podcast, Langley told Reid and Dan Isbell that the song was one of the first two songs she learned how to sing (the other being the hymn “Amazing Grace”). She said on the podcast, “I think I might start this next record off with this. The next record is gonna be a lot about Alabama and just kind of about my roots.”
Below, Billboard ranks each of the album’s 16 songs (not including the intro and outro).
