How Much Money Has Ella Langley’s ‘Choosin’ Texas’ Generated?

The long-running chart-topper, which is close to eclipsing Mariah Carey’s record on the Billboard Hot 100, has lassoed millions in revenue.

With more than 1. 5 billion streams worldwide, Ella Langley’s hit song “Choosin’ Texas” was anointed the song of the summer and now looks poised to match the record for most weeks at No.

At 21 weeks and counting, “Choosin’ Texas” is currently the second-longest chart-topping hit on the Hot 100, and the longest non-holiday hit of all time, having edged ahead of Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” and Lil Nas X‘s “Old Town Road” (which both spent 19 weeks at No.

1) e ficando apenas uma semana atrás do recorde de 22 semanas de Mariah Carey com “All I Want for Christmas Is You”.

These calculations are for label and publisher revenue. The artists and songwriters’ share of these figures depends on the terms of their contracts, which are not known.

Like “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” and other country hits that achieved mainstream popularity, old fashioned terrestrial radio, and to a lesser extent satellite and Internet radio, are driving a significant share of the revenue Langley, her label and her cowriters Dick Luke, Miranda Lambert and Joybeth Taylor, will collect.

BMI, Langley’s performance rights organization, collects licensing fees and pays royalties to Langley and the song’s other cowriters based on factors including airplay frequency and audience.

29, 2023 to Jan. 2, 2025. That song, which was released in April 2024, was also heavily played on mainstream radio. In the roughly nine months in 2024 after the song’s release, “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” had 1.

The revenue generated by Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” which was released in 1994 and first hit No. 1 on the Hot 100 in December 2019, dwarfs both these hits, in part because of the song’s decades-longer lifespan.

While the song was never a commercially released as a single, individual hits typically generated more revenue when music lovers bought CDs, compared to streaming the song digitally.

Additionally, since streaming became the dominant way to consume music, the popularity of holiday songs on DSPs has surged as the revenue model shifted from counting sales to measuring consumption, meaning Carey’s Christmas juggernaut continues to generate steady and significant revenue.

Billboard used Luminate data for on-demand and programmed audio and video streams and digital song downloads worldwide; and U. S. radio airplay spins, along with RIAA U.

S. data to determine wholesale rates and per-stream rates provided by financial sources at major and independent labels.

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