Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” has claimed the No. 1 position on Billboard’s Songs of the Summer chart for 2026.
Country music also dominates the top three spots on the season-ending Songs of the Summer ranking for the first time. “Choosin’ Texas” leads the list, followed by Taylor Swift’s “I Knew It, I Knew You” at No. 2 and Langley’s “Be Her” at No. 3.
The 20-song Songs of the Summer ranking measures the most popular tracks through their combined performance on Billboard’s weekly streaming-, airplay- and sales-based Hot 100 chart from Memorial Day through Labor Day. This year’s tracking period covers charts dated June 6 through Sept. 12. Songs that appeared on the 2025 Songs of the Summer chart or reached the Hot 100 during or before summer 2025 were not eligible for this year’s ranking.
As previously reported, “Choosin Texas” has remained at No. 1 on the Hot 100 for 21 weeks and counting, including 11 consecutive weeks since July 4. During its run at the top, country songs — defined as tracks that have appeared on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart — occupied all five positions at the top of the Hot 100 for one week in August for the first time.
Country music has continued its rise on the Songs of the Summer chart throughout this decade. Songs from the genre finished at Nos. 1 and 2 in both 2023 and 2024. Last year, Morgan Wallen placed at Nos. 2, 3 and 4, with all three songs coming from his album I’m the Problem.
Notably, “Choosin’ Texas” is also among the uncommon Songs of the Summer winners that originally arrived in an earlier year, having been released in October 2025. The most recent No. 1 winner to achieve that distinction was OMI’s “Cheerleader,” which followed its May 2014 release by becoming the 2015 champion. However, that song first appeared on the Hot 100 in 2015. “Choosin’ Texas,” meanwhile, entered the Hot 100 in 2025, making it the first season-ending Songs of the Summer No. 1 in 30 years to have debuted on the chart during a previous year. Los Del Rio’s “Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix)” last accomplished the feat when it won the 1996 Songs of the Summer ranking after spending 14 weeks at No. 1 on the Hot 100, where it had debuted in September 1995.
Swift’s “I Knew It, I Knew You” topped the Hot 100 during its first two weeks on the chart in June. Its No. 2 placement on Songs of the Summer represents Swift’s best-ever season-ending position, moving ahead of “Bad Blood,” featuring Kendrick Lamar, which finished at No. 3 in 2015.
Langley’s “Be Her” reached No. 2 on the Hot 100 and, much like “Choosin’ Texas,” remained within the chart’s top 10 throughout every week from Memorial Day through Labor Day.
Ariana Grande’s “Hate That I Made You Love Me” takes No. 4 on the 2026 Songs of the Summer chart after opening at No. 1 on the Hot 100 in June. It gives Grande her strongest Songs of the Summer finish since 2014, when “Problem,” featuring Iggy Azalea, ranked No. 3.
Drake’s “Janice STFU” closes out the season at No. 5 on Songs of the Summer. Aside from “Choosin’ Texas,” it is the only song to reach No. 1 on the weekly ranking during the season, leading the list during its first week of the year after debuting atop the Hot 100 and spending two weeks at No. 1 overall.
Looking at the individual metrics, “Choosin’ Texas” generated the highest number of official U.S. streams during the 2026 summer tracking period, reaching 407 million, according to Luminate. The song also recorded the period’s highest download sales, with 124,000.
Olivia Dean’s “So Easy (To Fall in Love)” was the summer’s biggest radio performer, accumulating an airplay audience of 1 billion. The song finishes at No. 8 on Songs of the Summer.
The remaining songs in this year’s top 10 are Stella Lefty’s “Boston” at No. 6, Langley and Wallen’s “I Can’t Love You Anymore” at No. 7, Dean’s “Man I Need” at No. 9 and Tame Impala and JENNIE’s “Dracula” at No. 10.