At 23 weeks, country singer Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” has dethroned Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” as the longest-running No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Host Indira Lakshmanan talks with Pitchfork writer Walden Green about how the country-pop single took over the charts.
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