Doja Cat Says She Doesn't Know Who Ella Langley Is — the Country Singer Tying Chart Records
Doja Cat, appearing on Caleb Pressley's Sundae Conversation, said she did not know who Ella Langley is — and her response, "I don't know what that is," has drawn attention to the gap between the rapper's world and the country singer currently dominating the Billboard Hot 100. Pressley, an internet personality and comedian, hosts the interview-format show where the exchange took place. Billboard
Ella Langley is a country singer whose single "Choosin' Texas" has now spent 19 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, the chart that ranks the most popular songs in the United States each week across all genres. On the chart dated 29 August, the track tied the longest non-holiday run ever at the summit, matching Lil Nas X's "Old Town Road" and Shaboozey's "A Bar Song" (a tie that excludes seasonal entries like Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You," which racks up its weeks only in December). The climb to that milestone was steady: 15 weeks, then 16, 17, 18, and now 19, each confirmed by successive Billboard chart reports through August. Billboard
Langley's chart dominance has come alongside a broader country presence near the top of the Hot 100. During the song's 16th week at No. 1, country tracks held the entire top five positions for the first time in the chart's history. By the 18th week, country songs controlled the top four. Billboard
Drake, for his part, has made his appreciation public. He praised Langley's songwriting with the phrase "Goated pen" — slang for "greatest of all time" — and attended her concert on Saturday, 22 August 2025, in North Little Rock, Arkansas. Billboard
Doja Cat, meanwhile, has her own tour on the horizon. Her Tour Ma Vie World Tour's North American leg is set to open in Detroit on 1 October 2025.
What makes the moment land is the contrast: one artist with a major tour launching in weeks, another with the longest non-holiday Hot 100 reign in chart history — and the two apparently occupying separate enough orbits that one name doesn't register for the other. Whether that says more about genre silos, algorithmic playlists, or simply the limits of any individual's intake is an open question. The numbers, though, are not: 19 weeks at No. 1, a tie with two of the biggest chart runs in pop-music history, and counting.
