Ella Langley Debuts Atop The Billboard 200 Album Chart With ‘Dandelion’

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Ella Langley. Photo: Caylee Robillard

Ella Langley has landed her first No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart this week with her sophomore album Dandelion, which debuted at No. 1.

The project marked the largest week for a country album by a woman in two years, and the biggest week of 2026 for any female, launching with 169,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending April 16 according to Luminate and Billboard. Dandelion was fueled by the initial smash crossover hit “Choosin’ Texas,” which has spent 20 weeks at No. 1 on the Hot Country Songs chart, six weeks atop the all-genre Billboard Hot 100, and three weeks at No. 1 on Country Airplay.

The release of Dandelion and Megan Moroney’s Cloud 9 (which bowed in March) marks the first time there have been two No. 1 country albums by two different solo women in a calendar year in more than a decade. The last time it last happened was in 2012, when Taylor Swift’s Red and Carrie Underwood’s Blown Away both reached the feat. Both Dandelion and Cloud 9 are also the first No. 1s for Langley and Moroney, and the Billboard chart last saw a pair of first No. 1 country albums by solo women in the same year nearly 20 years ago, when in 2007, Reba McEntire and Carrie Underwood both landed their first No. 1s, with Reba Duets and Carnival Ride, respectively.

Dandelion also scored the largest streaming week for an album by a woman in 2026, and the biggest streaming week for a country album by a woman in two years.

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