newmusic.press · Weekly No. 1 Review · Tuesday — Hot Country Songs · Chart dated 2026-10-10
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- Chart(s): Billboard Hot Country Songs (the song also held No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for 24 weeks before this chart week — cited in the verification log)
- Chart date: 2026-10-10
- Date checked: 2026-10-12
- Position: No. 1
- Weeks at No. 1 (this song, this chart): 43rd week on Hot Country Songs
- Chart source: billboard.com chart page [needs confirmation — direct fetch blocked at this level; see verification log]
- Cross-check sources: Billboard number-one country songs list for 2026; AZ Timez chart summary; Billboard Chart Beat
Quick answer
“Choosin’ Texas” by Ella Langley is No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs for the chart dated October 10, 2026 — its 43rd week at the top of that chart, in the same week it gives up the Hot 100 summit after a 24-week run reported as the longest in that chart’s history. The headline metadata finding: this record was made by a named band in a named room — and its own title cannot decide how to spell itself, with a straight apostrophe on the platforms and a curly one almost everywhere else.
The record (verified facts only)
- Title: “Choosin’ Texas” — straight apostrophe on Apple Music, Spotify, and YouTube; curly apostrophe (“Choosin’ Texas”) in most press and reference pages
- Artist(s): Ella Langley — solo billing, no featured artist on the single or album listings
- Album / release: single released October 17, 2025; lead single from the album Dandelion (2026), where it also appears as an album track
- Release date: October 17, 2025
- Duration: 3:52
- Explicit: [needs confirmation] — no listing checked showed an explicit marker, and no source states the flag either way
- Genre as listed: Country (Apple Music lists “COUNTRY”)
- ISRC: USSM12504190 — reported only by a secondary aggregator (TheAudioDB); not confirmed from an official source — treated as [needs confirmation]
- ISWC: [needs confirmation]
- Official video: two official videos — a lyric video (Oct. 17, 2025) and a narrative video (premiered April 1, 2026)
- Where it was released (audio): streaming services as a single (2025), then on Dandelion (2026); note there are two separate Spotify track entries, single and album
- Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choosin’_Texas · https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/inside-track-ella-langley-dandelion · https://stereogum.com/2488632/ella-langley-scores-first-1-hit-with-choosin-texas/news
Vertical Integration — Who Owns the Chain
The headline angle of this review, from verified lines only.
The recording line on this record reads “℗ SAWGOD Records/Columbia” — an imprint’s name stands first on the record’s own line, ahead of the major’s, on both the single (℗ 2025) and the album version (℗ 2026). The writing and the making also sit close to the artist: Langley is a co-writer and a co-producer of her own No. 1, and the sessions were played by her working band in a Nashville room, documented session by session. What she rents is reach: country-radio promotion is handled by an outside specialist, Triple Tigers, and the record rides a major label’s system.
Where the public record stops, this review stops: no source checked states in so many words who owns the SAWGOD imprint, and no repertoire entry for the song is public anywhere found — so imprint ownership and the whole publishing/collection side are [needs confirmation], and no reader should take the ℗ line alone as proof of either.
- Sources: Spotify single and album listings · https://hypebeast.com/2026/9/ella-langley-choosin-texas-breaks-all-time-billboard-hot-100-record-23rd-week-no-1-news · https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choosin’_Texas
Pass A — Metadata audit
| Engine | Score | Finding |
|---|---|---|
| SEO — search | fix | The song’s own title splits on punctuation — straight apostrophe on the platforms, curly in press and reference pages — and Spotify carries two separate track entries (single vs. album), so the record’s plays and pages split too. |
| AEO — answer engines | ready | The song, the artist, and the record run are answered in one step from clean coverage. |
| GEO — generative engines | fix | Writing, production, and session facts sit on citable pages (reference credits, Sound On Sound’s session account), but the label line reads three different ways and no repertoire entry exists for a machine to cite the publishing facts from. |
| VSO — voice search | ready | The plain questions — who sings it, how long has it been No. 1 — are answered in plain sentences in the coverage. |
| LOC — local search | ready | The place ties are stated and specific: recorded at Sound Emporium in Nashville; the narrative video filmed at the Stagecoach Ballroom in Fort Worth, Texas. |
| VID — video search | fix | Two official videos exist and the lyric video’s description carries a full crew block — but that description calls the lyric video the “Official Video,” the narrative video’s own description carries no crew list in any copy found, and caption status is unconfirmed for both. |
| ASO — app stores | n/a | The release carries no app of its own. |
| SOC — social search | fix | The artist’s handles are published in the official video description — but the X handle as printed there (“ellalangleymsic”) reads as a misspelling and cannot be confirmed, and no label handle is stated anywhere for this release. |
Press-kit check (required): none found. No label-issued press kit / EPK for this release exists in the sources checked; the release-day announcement is a press release, not a kit.
Cross-check findings:
- Field: Title punctuation — reads as Choosin’ Texas (straight apostrophe; Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube) / reads as Choosin’ Texas (curly; Wikipedia and most press). Sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUsrYVxrDwI · https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choosin’_Texas
- Field: ℗ line — reads as ℗ 2025 SAWGOD Records/Columbia (single) / reads as ℗ 2026 SAWGOD Records/Columbia (album version). Source: Spotify listings.
- Field: Label wording — reads as SAWGOD Records/Columbia (platform ℗ line) / reads as Sawgod, Sony Nashville, Columbia (reference infobox) / reads as SAWGOD/Columbia Records (press-release wording).
- Field: Track identity — Spotify track ID 65DbTqJKhbwqYbZ1Okr0rc (single) vs. a different track ID on the Dandelion album listing: two entries for one song.
- Field: Video labelling — the lyric video (hLOheGDwD_0) is titled “(Official Lyric Video)” while its own description opens “Official Video for ‘Choosin’ Texas’…” Sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLOheGDwD_0 · https://www.metatube.com/videos/ella-langley-choosin-texas-official-lyric-video/
- Field: Producer wording in secondary press — one summary credits production to Langley and Ben West only, omitting Miranda Lambert, whom the credits name as a producer. Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choosin’_Texas · http://themusicuniverse.com/ella-langley-makes-billboard-history-as-choosin-texas-spends-15th-week-at-no-1/
- Warning on the record: at least one unrelated upload using this title and “official lyric video” labelling carries lyrics that do not match the published song; only the EllaLangleyVEVO uploads are cited here.
Behind-the-scenes visibility (required finding): partly credited. The making is unusually visible: the session band is named player by player in a trade account of the sessions, the studio and its city are public, and the lyric video’s description credits its full crew down to the dancers and the location. Against that: the narrative video’s crew beyond its three directors is credited nowhere public found, no mastering credit exists in any source checked, and the publishing side is credited nowhere.
Clean: artist spelling, solo billing, release date, and the 3:52 duration agree everywhere an exact figure is given; the sessions and the session band are documented in public by name.
To fix: (1) settle the title’s punctuation across platforms and press; (2) merge or link the duplicate Spotify track entries; (3) correct the X handle as printed in the official description, if it is wrong; (4) publish the narrative video’s crew credits and the mastering credit; (5) publish a repertoire entry — a record-setting song whose publishers cannot be looked up is a gap in the record itself.
Behind-the-Scenes Roll Call
- Dave Clauss — engineering and mixing (album sessions including this song, per the trade account of the sessions) — Engineers & Equipment — https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/inside-track-ella-langley-dandelion
- Ben West — producer — The Making — https://stereogum.com/2488632/ella-langley-scores-first-1-hit-with-choosin-texas/news
- Miranda Lambert — producer; background vocals — The Making — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choosin’_Texas
- Luke Dick — songwriter — The Writing Room — same source
- Joybeth Taylor — songwriter — The Writing Room — same source
- Tom Bukovac — guitar — The Making — same source
- Ben Flanders — guitar — The Making — same source
- Rachel Loy — bass (first Dandelion sessions, including this song) — The Making — Sound On Sound as above
- Spencer Cullum — pedal steel (same sessions) — The Making — same
- Charlie Worsham — acoustic guitar (same sessions) — The Making — same
- Dave Cohen — keyboards (same sessions) — The Making — same
- Aksel Coe — drums (same sessions) — The Making — same
- Wales Toney — director, lyric video; co-director, narrative video — Video Crew & Production — https://www.metatube.com/videos/ella-langley-choosin-texas-official-lyric-video/ · https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choosin’_Texas
- Bennett Self — director of photography, lyric video — Video Crew & Production — metatube as above
- Caylee Robillard — creative director, lyric video; co-director, narrative video — Video Crew & Production — same
- Stefani Colvin — stylist, lyric video — Video Crew & Production — same
- Chris Bear — glam, lyric video — Video Crew & Production — same
- Kelsey Granda — production coordinator (the sessions) — Studios — Sound On Sound as above
- Total behind the scenes, verified: 18 · still `[needs confirmation]`: mastering entire, the narrative video’s crew beyond its directors, publishing entire.
Teams & Companies ledger — all departments
1. The Writing Room
| Part | Name | In front / Behind the scenes | Company / house | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Songwriter | Ella Langley | in front | — | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choosin’_Texas |
| Songwriter | Luke Dick | behind the scenes | — | same |
| Songwriter | Miranda Lambert | behind the scenes (as writer) | — | same |
| Songwriter | Joybeth Taylor | behind the scenes | — | same; corroborated in Billboard reporting summarized by USA Today: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/state/texas/2026/09/23/choosin-texas-ella-langley-billboard-hot-100-record/91901834007/ |
| Sample writer | none credited in the sources checked | — | — | — |
Written October 2024 at a writing retreat (same source).
2. The Making
| Part | Name | In front / Behind the scenes | Company / house | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Producer | Ella Langley | in front | — | https://stereogum.com/2488632/ella-langley-scores-first-1-hit-with-choosin-texas/news |
| Producer | Ben West | behind the scenes | — | same |
| Producer | Miranda Lambert | behind the scenes | — | same |
| Background vocals | Miranda Lambert | behind the scenes | — | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choosin’_Texas |
| Guitar | Tom Bukovac; Ben Flanders | behind the scenes | — | same |
| Bass | Rachel Loy | behind the scenes | — | https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/inside-track-ella-langley-dandelion |
| Pedal steel | Spencer Cullum | behind the scenes | — | same |
| Acoustic guitar | Charlie Worsham | behind the scenes | — | same |
| Keyboards | Dave Cohen | behind the scenes | — | same |
| Drums | Aksel Coe | behind the scenes | — | same |
| Vocal production | [needs confirmation] — no separate credit; a trade note about vocal recording on “the rest of the album” is explicitly not this track and is not transferred | behind the scenes | — | Sound On Sound as above |
(Session players are credited at the level of the first Dandelion sessions, which the source states included this song.)
3. Engineers & Equipment
| Part | Name / item | In front / Behind the scenes | Company / house | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Engineer / mix engineer | Dave Clauss — the album was “largely engineered and wholly mixed” by him (album-level statement covering these sessions); a session video also shows him opening this song’s mix | behind the scenes | — | https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/inside-track-ella-langley-dandelion · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niCryP2DIWc |
| Recording engineer, this track alone | [needs confirmation] | behind the scenes | — | — |
| Mastering engineer | [needs confirmation] — no public source found | behind the scenes | — | — |
| Equipment | [needs confirmation] for this work — nothing is stated here from a photo or a sound | behind the scenes | — | — |
4. Studios
| Studio / house | City | What was done there | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sound Emporium | Nashville, Tennessee | Recording — the first Dandelion sessions (April 2025, three days, booked in 3-hour blocks), including this song | https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/inside-track-ella-langley-dandelion · https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choosin’_Texas |
| Mix studio; mastering house | [needs confirmation] | — | — |
| Stagecoach Ballroom | Fort Worth, Texas | Filming location, narrative video | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choosin’_Texas |
| Skinny Dennis | Nashville | Location, lyric video | https://www.metatube.com/videos/ella-langley-choosin-texas-official-lyric-video/ |
5. The Visuals (stills)
| Part | Name | In front / Behind the scenes | Company / house | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cover art / design; photography | [needs confirmation] | behind the scenes | — | — |
| Styling for stills | [needs confirmation] (the lyric video’s stylist is credited in §6, not here) | behind the scenes | — | — |
6. Video Crew & Production
Two official videos. Their credits are not interchangeable.
| Part | Name | In front / Behind the scenes | Company / house | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lyric video — director | Wales Toney | behind the scenes | — | https://www.metatube.com/videos/ella-langley-choosin-texas-official-lyric-video/ |
| Lyric video — DP | Bennett Self | behind the scenes | — | same |
| Lyric video — creative director | Caylee Robillard | behind the scenes | — | same |
| Lyric video — stylist | Stefani Colvin | behind the scenes | — | same |
| Lyric video — glam | Chris Bear | behind the scenes | — | same |
| Lyric video — production company | Whale Tale Music | behind the scenes | Whale Tale Music | same |
| Lyric video — dancers | Chris Farrell; Kylie Kay | in front | — | same |
| Narrative video — directors | Ella Langley; Wales Toney; Caylee Robillard | behind the scenes (as directors) | — | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choosin’_Texas |
| Narrative video — cast as reported | Luke Grimes; Ava Phillippe; Miranda Lambert; Kaitlin Butts; with Wade Bowen, Mike Ryan, Casey Donahew, Tanner Usrey, and rodeo figures J.B. Mauney, Dale Brisby, Shad Mayfield, Tyson Durfey, Leighton Berry | in front | — | same |
| Narrative video — DP, editor, color, VFX, production company | [needs confirmation] — credited nowhere public found | behind the scenes | — | — |
7. Rights & Publishing
| Part | Name | In front / Behind the scenes | Company / house | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Publisher(s) | [needs confirmation] — no public ASCAP/BMI repertoire entry for this title was returned | behind the scenes | — | — |
| Writers’ performing-rights homes, for this work | [needs confirmation] per writer | behind the scenes | — | — |
| Publishing administrator | [needs confirmation] | behind the scenes | — | — |
| Note, not a credit | A BMI-hosted No. 1 party for this song (March 17, 2026) and a co-writer’s publishing-deal extension (Sony Music Publishing Nashville / Verse 2 Music, Sept. 2026) are public events; neither is a work-level publisher credit, and neither is entered as one | — | — | https://musicrow.com/2026/03/ella-langley-celebrates-werent-for-the-wind-choosin-texas-at-double-no-1-party/ · https://musicrow.com/2026/09/joybeth-taylor-extends-deal-with-sony-music-publishing-verse-2-music-adds-taycan-as-creative-partner/ |
8. The Label
| Part | Name | In front / Behind the scenes | Company / house | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Label (as listed) | SAWGOD Records/Columbia (platform ℗ line); infobox form: Sawgod, Sony Nashville, Columbia | — | SAWGOD Records · Columbia | Spotify listings · https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choosin’_Texas |
| A&R; product / release management; label services | [needs confirmation] | behind the scenes | — | — |
9. The Delivery (audio)
| Part | Name | In front / Behind the scenes | Company / house | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Distributor; metadata desk; streaming pitching | [needs confirmation] | behind the scenes | — | — |
| Where released | Single on streaming (Oct. 17, 2025); album Dandelion (2026); two separate Spotify track entries (see Pass A) | — | — | Spotify listings |
10. Video Distribution
| Part | Name / place | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Channels it lives on | EllaLangleyVEVO (both videos, per the VEVO channel listing; channel name to be re-confirmed on YouTube itself) | lyric video Oct. 17, 2025; narrative video premiered April 1, 2026 | https://us.youtubers.me/ellalangleyvevo/youtube-videos-stats · https://wamz.iheart.com/content/2026-04-01-watch-ella-langleys-sneak-peek-of-star-studded-choosin-texas-video/ |
| Video distributor | [needs confirmation] — Vevo channel listing implies the Vevo route; no distributor is stated in the descriptions checked | — | — |
| Date variance on the record | the VEVO statistics listing dates the narrative video 02.04.2026 (reads as April 2) against the announced April 1 premiere — unresolved in public sources | — | VEVO listing as above |
| Territories | [needs confirmation] | — | — |
11. Publicity & Press
| Part | Name | In front / Behind the scenes | Company / house | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Publicist / press firm | [needs confirmation] | behind the scenes | — | — |
| Press kit / EPK | none found (see Pass A) | behind the scenes | — | — |
| Press events | BMI-hosted double No. 1 party, BMI Nashville, March 17, 2026 | — | BMI (host) | https://musicrow.com/2026/03/ella-langley-celebrates-werent-for-the-wind-choosin-texas-at-double-no-1-party/ |
Press coverage of the release (outlet — date — link — one plain line):
- Stereogum — Feb. 2026 — https://stereogum.com/2488632/ella-langley-scores-first-1-hit-with-choosin-texas/news — the first No. 1 report, with writers, producers, and the background vocal named.
- USA Today — Sept. 23, 2026 — https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/state/texas/2026/09/23/choosin-texas-ella-langley-billboard-hot-100-record/91901834007/ — the 23rd week passes the all-time Hot 100 record, with the week’s figures.
- PEOPLE — Sept. 22, 2026 — https://people.com/ella-langley-dethrones-mariah-carey-to-become-longest-running-billboard-hot-100-hit-of-all-time-12134880 — the record run, the writing, and the album behind it.
- Sound On Sound — Aug. 2026 — https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/inside-track-ella-langley-dandelion — the session account: the room, the band, the engineer.
- Hypebeast — Sept. 2026 — https://hypebeast.com/2026/9/ella-langley-choosin-texas-breaks-all-time-billboard-hot-100-record-23rd-week-no-1-news — the 23rd-week report; names SAWGOD/Columbia and Triple Tigers’ radio role.
12. Socials
| Account | Platform | Handle, exactly as stated | Run by | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Artist — official | TikTok | @ellalangleymusic1 | [needs confirmation] | https://www.metatube.com/videos/ella-langley-choosin-texas-official-lyric-video/ · https://www.tiktok.com/@ellalangleymusic1 |
| Artist — official | ellalangleymusic | [needs confirmation] | metatube as above | |
| Artist — official | X | ellalangleymsic — as printed in the official description; reads as a misspelling, unverified on X itself | [needs confirmation] | metatube as above |
| Artist — official | ellalangleymusic | [needs confirmation] | metatube as above | |
| Artist — updates account | ellalangleyHQ | [needs confirmation] | metatube as above | |
| Artist — official | Web | ellalangley.com | — | metatube as above |
| Label accounts | — | [needs confirmation] — no label handle is stated for this release in any source checked | — | — |
| Campaign hashtag | — | [needs confirmation] — “#ChoosinTexas” appears in unofficial uploads and video keywords, which is not evidence of official use | — | — |
13. Sponsors & Ads
Sponsors & brand partners of the release / video: none public found. An artist-level brand campaign featuring Langley was reported in 2026 coverage, but no source ties it to this song — it is not counted as a sponsor of this release.
Advertising: ad agency / media house [needs confirmation]; the song placed in an ad: none public found.
14. The Word
| Part | Name | In front / Behind the scenes | Company / house | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Radio promotion | Triple Tigers — promotion to country radio; U.S. country radio release Nov. 10, 2025; U.S. CHR Feb. 3, 2026 (Columbia); Italy Mar. 27, 2026 (Sony) | behind the scenes | Triple Tigers | https://hypebeast.com/2026/9/ella-langley-choosin-texas-breaks-all-time-billboard-hot-100-record-23rd-week-no-1-news · https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choosin’_Texas |
| Marketing; playlist pitching | [needs confirmation] | behind the scenes | — | — |
15. The Business
| Part | Name | In front / Behind the scenes | Company / house | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Management; legal; business management; booking (for this release) | [needs confirmation] — general artist-management reporting exists but is not release-specific and is not entered as a credit | behind the scenes | — | — |
16. The Budget & Capitalization
| Line | Figure | Reported / [needs confirmation] | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Studio budget; video budget; advances | [needs confirmation] — no figure is public for this release | — | — |
| Capitalization | [needs confirmation] — the ℗ line (§8) is a fact about the recording line, not a figure | — | — |
17. Monetization & Collection
| Lane | How it is monetized, as publicly stated | Who collects it | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Streaming / sales / airplay | A reported estimate (Billboard, via Parade) puts the song’s generated revenue at nearly $13.9 million worldwide as of Sept. 14, 2026 — nearly $6M estimated global publishing royalties and nearly $8M estimated global label revenue. This is a reported estimate of money generated, not a budget and not a verified figure; the same report notes the contract terms are not known. | as estimated in the report | https://parade.com/news/ella-langleys-choosin-texas-has-made-a-staggering-amount-of-money-in-less-than-a-year-ready-to-be-shocked |
| Collection — writing side; master side; royalty accounting; catalog holder now | [needs confirmation] — no repertoire entry or collection party is public for this work | — | — |
| Sync / advertising; sponsorship money | none public found | — | — |
[needs confirmation] rows and departments: Publishing (entire), mastering, track-specific recording credit, Visuals, Delivery desks, Label A&R rows, Business (entire), Budget figures, Collection parties, ISRC (aggregator-only), ISWC, explicit flag, label handles, campaign hashtag, narrative-video crew beyond directors, both videos’ caption status.
Vertical Map — the whole chain, one line per department
- Writing Room: the artist with Dick, Lambert, and Taylor — partner (co-writers beside the artist; their houses [needs confirmation])
- The Making: the artist co-producing with West and Lambert, her working band playing — inside / partner, close to the artist’s own camp
- Engineers & Equipment: Clauss across the album sessions — outside / [needs confirmation] (no house stated)
- Studios: Sound Emporium, Nashville — outside house, publicly named
- The Visuals: [needs confirmation]
- Video Crew & Production: lyric video — Whale Tale Music, fully credited, outside; narrative video — crew [needs confirmation]
- Rights & Publishing: [needs confirmation] — nothing public
- The Label: SAWGOD Records/Columbia — imprint first on the ℗ line, major beside it — partner (imprint ownership [needs confirmation])
- The Delivery: [needs confirmation]
- Video Distribution: EllaLangleyVEVO — partner (Vevo route per channel listing)
- Publicity & Press: [needs confirmation] — coverage is national; no publicist is named
- Socials: the artist’s own accounts — inside; label accounts [needs confirmation]
- Sponsors & Ads: none public — n/a
- The Word: Triple Tigers on country radio — outside specialist, named
- The Business: [needs confirmation]
- Budget & Capitalization: [needs confirmation]
- Monetization & Collection: a reported revenue estimate exists (see §17); the collecting parties are [needs confirmation]
Chain in one sentence: Written by the artist with three partners, played by her own band in a named Nashville room, carried on an imprint-first recording line beside a major, promoted to country radio by a named outside specialist — with the publishing, mastering, and collection end of the chain published nowhere.
Q&A
Q: What is the No. 1 song on Hot Country Songs this week?
A: “Choosin’ Texas” by Ella Langley, No. 1 on the chart dated October 10, 2026, in its 43rd week at the top of that chart.
Q: Who wrote “Choosin’ Texas”?
A: Ella Langley, Luke Dick, Miranda Lambert, and Joybeth Taylor.
Q: What label released “Choosin’ Texas”?
A: The recording line reads SAWGOD Records/Columbia; reference listings also name Sony Nashville.
Q: Who worked on “Choosin’ Texas” behind the scenes?
A: Producers Ben West and Miranda Lambert, engineer/mixer Dave Clauss, a named session band (Tom Bukovac, Ben Flanders, Rachel Loy, Spencer Cullum, Charlie Worsham, Dave Cohen, Aksel Coe), and the lyric video’s fully credited crew — the roll call is above. The mastering engineer and the publishers are credited nowhere public found.
Q: Where can I watch the official video for “Choosin’ Texas”?
A: Two official videos live on the EllaLangleyVEVO channel: the lyric video from October 2025 and the narrative video premiered April 1, 2026.
Q: Where was “Choosin’ Texas” recorded?
A: At Sound Emporium in Nashville, Tennessee, during the April 2025 album sessions documented by Sound On Sound.
Q: Why does the title read two different ways?
A: The platforms list it with a straight apostrophe (“Choosin’ Texas”) while most press and reference pages use a curly one (“Choosin’ Texas”) — a small split in the song’s own public identity, flagged in Pass A.
Tags — all mentioned, cited above
- Ella Langley — Instagram @ellalangleymusic · TikTok @ellalangleymusic1 · Facebook ellalangleymusic · ellalangley.com (official lyric-video description)
- Ella Langley — X: “ellalangleymsic” as printed in the official description — [needs confirmation] (reads as a misspelling)
- EllaLangleyVEVO — YouTube channel (VEVO channel listing)
- Miranda Lambert — [needs confirmation]
- Luke Dick — [needs confirmation]
- Joybeth Taylor — [needs confirmation]
- Ben West — [needs confirmation]
- Dave Clauss — [needs confirmation]
- SAWGOD Records — [needs confirmation]
- Columbia Records — [needs confirmation]
- Triple Tigers — [needs confirmation]
- Sound Emporium — [needs confirmation]
- Whale Tale Music — [needs confirmation]
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