Ella Langley earns her sixth No. 1 on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart as “Loving Life Again” rises a spot on the Oct. 31-dated list, delivering 32.4 million audience impressions Oct. 16-22 (up 7%), according to Luminate.
Among women, or acts with a woman vocalist, Langley has gone from one No. 1 to six the fastest in the chart’s 36-year history. She logged 99 weeks from her first trip to the top, with “You Look Like You Love Me” with Riley Green in December 2024, to her latest. The previous fastest was Lady A (125 weeks); the quickest solo woman, Carrie Underwood, did so more than 127. Among all acts, only Jelly Roll (96) and Alan Jackson (94) have raced to six more quickly than Langley.
The march up Country Airplay for “Loving Life Again” adds another chapter. Upon reaching No. 1, Langley’s Dandelion generates a fourth leader, joining “Choosin’ Texas,” “Be Her” and the Morgan Wallen duet “I Can’t Love You Anymore,” making it just the second album by a woman, or an act with a woman vocalist, to send four titles to the summit.
The only other, Shania Twain’s The Woman in Me, was alone in that elite club for three decades. Langley moves ahead of the three-apiece hauls from Underwood’s Some Hearts, Carnival Ride and Play On, Twain’s Come On Over and sets by Lady A, Sugarland, The Chicks, Jo Dee Messina, Deana Carter, Kelsea Ballerini and Wynonna.
Langley cowrote “Loving Life Again” with ERNEST and Devin Dawson after taking two weeks away from touring in 2025 to reconnect with family and regain her footing amid a whirlwind of career success. Its title grew out of her response when ERNEST asked how she was feeling.
Dandelion has spent 21 weeks atop Top Country Albums since its April debut, the most among women since the chart adopted a multimetric methodology nearly a decade ago on the Feb. 11, 2017, survey. It ranks sixth overall in that span, with Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album boasting an all-time record 97 weeks at No. 1.
