Ella Langley Earns Sixth Country Airplay No. 1 With "Loving Life Again"

Ella Langley has taken her sixth No. 1 on Billboard's Country Airplay chart, which ranks songs by how often radio stations play them. The song is "Loving Life Again," and the milestone appears on the chart dated Oct. 31, reported by Billboard on Oct. 23.

The song drew 32.4 million audience impressions in the tracking week of Oct. 16 to 22. An audience impression is an estimate of how many listeners heard a song on the radio, and that total was up 7%, according to the data company Luminate.

The speed is the headline. Langley went from her first Country Airplay No. 1 to her sixth in 99 weeks. Her first was "You Look Like You Love Me," a duet with Riley Green that reached the top in December 2024. Billboard says that is the fastest pace for a woman or any act with a woman vocalist in the chart's 36-year history. The previous quickest women's acts were Lady A, at 125 weeks, and Carrie Underwood, at more than 127 weeks.

Only two acts overall have moved faster. Jelly Roll reached six Country Airplay No. 1s in 96 weeks, and Alan Jackson did it in 94 weeks.

"Loving Life Again" is the fourth Country Airplay No. 1 from Langley's album Dandelion. The others are "Choosin' Texas," "Be Her," and "I Can't Love You Anymore," which she recorded with Morgan Wallen. Only one other album by a woman, or by an act with a woman singer, has produced four chart-toppers on the Country Airplay list. That album is Shania Twain's The Woman in Me.

The album is also doing well on sales charts. Dandelion has spent 21 weeks at No. 1 on Billboard's Top Country Albums chart since its April debut. Billboard says that is the most weeks at the top for a woman since the chart changed its counting method on Feb. 11, 2017. That method blends album sales, streams and track sales into one ranking.

Langley co-wrote the song with ERNEST and Devin Dawson. Its climb on the radio chart has been steady. It reached No. 8 on the chart dated Sept. 19, and the album now has four songs in the Country Airplay top 10.

Radio success is one of the slower ways a song can reach the top of a chart, because stations add songs in batches and keep them for months. A rise in audience impressions usually means more stations are playing a song, or more people are tuning in to the stations that already do.

The chart dated Oct. 31 is the first to show the new No. 1. Billboard publishes its charts each week, so the next update will show whether "Loving Life Again" holds the top spot.