A fast-rising Alabama country star’s latest accomplishment has put her among some elite company — Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, Faith Hill — and has left Nashville observers wondering if it’s a sign she’s still on her way to bigger things.
For two weeks now, Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” has sat at No. 5 on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart. That’s not a country chart: It’s the overall, all-genre pop chart.
Winning Academy of Country Music awards and Country Music Association awards by the handful makes for a splashy coming-out, but it does little to guarantee crossover success. But when Billboard released its newest charts right after the Christmas holidays, Langley turned heads in a whole different way…