India, Sept. 23 -- Country music artist Ella Langley has rewritten American chart history, as her crossover smash hit "Choosin' Texas" secured a record-breaking 23rd week atop the Billboard Hot 100. The milestone officially surpasses the 22-week record previously held by Mariah Carey's perennial holiday anthem "All I Want for Christmas Is You," establishing the heartbreak ballad as the longest-running number-one single in the 68-year history of the definitive music chart.

The track, released last October as the lead single for her second studio album, chronicles a Tennessee-based narrator watching her partner leave for a woman in Texas. Co-written during a brief writers' retreat alongside established country star Miranda Lambert, the son...