Ella Langley's "Loving Life Again" Returns to No. 1 on Country Airplay
Ella Langley's "Loving Life Again" is back at No. 1 on Billboard's Country Airplay chart for a second week, on the chart dated Nov. 14. Billboard reported the result on Nov. 6.
Country Airplay ranks songs by how often radio stations play them, weighting each spin by the size of the audience it reaches. Data firm Luminate counted 33.8 million audience impressions for the song from Oct. 30 to Nov. 5, up 6%. An audience impression is the estimated number of listeners a play reaches, so it is a measure of reach rather than sales.
Langley's other song on the chart moved up too. "Jaded," her duet with Koe Wetzel, climbed from No. 6 to No. 3 with 26.6 million audience impressions, up 13%.
The pair's run of chart success adds to a busy year for Langley, who was born on May 3, 1999, in Hope Hull, Alabama. She made her Hot 100 debut in 2024. "Jaded" also reached No. 8 on Hot Country Songs, the chart that tracks songs across sales, streaming and airplay.
Langley is now the only woman with two songs in the top three of Country Airplay at the same time. She first did it in May, with "Be Her" and "Choosin' Texas." "Choosin' Texas" went on to hold No. 1 for three weeks that were not in a row, in February and March.
"Loving Life Again" is the second song by a solo woman to top Country Airplay for weeks that are not consecutive since the chart launched in 1990. When it first reached No. 1 on the chart dated Oct. 31, Langley became the first woman to earn at least four No. 1s in a single year.
The song is the fourth Country Airplay No. 1 from her album Dandelion. The others are "Choosin' Texas," "Be Her" and "I Can't Love You Anymore," the last with Morgan Wallen. Dandelion is the third album by a woman to produce four Country Airplay No. 1s. "Loving Life Again" also became the 1,000th No. 1 in the chart's history.
Country Airplay positions depend on what stations choose to play each week. A second week at the top means stations kept the song in heavy rotation through a full week of listening, and the reach numbers show a bigger audience than the week before.
