Miranda Lambert covering the song she helped pen. Ella Langley‘s “Choosin’ Texas” has been the Alabama native’s biggest hit by far. Many people (including me) knew the song had the power to make waves in the same way her duet with Riley Green, “You Look Like You Love Me,” did, but this single has exceeded all expectations and truly made history.

The tune, soaked in steel and full of heartbreak, finds Ella reminiscing on a lost love who left her for a Texas girl, leaving her heartbroken in Tennessee. Ella says it was born out of a writer’s trip she went on withMiranda Lambert, Joybeth and Luke about a year ago:

“I had the amazing opportunity to sit down in a room with Miranda, Luke, and Joybeth on a writing retreat about a year ago. We wrote a bunch of songs together, but the second one really stuck with me.

Miranda, being from Texas, started telling us one of her wild stories about drinkin’ and doing something ridiculous, and I said, ‘Well, she’s from Texas, I can tell.’ As soon as I said that, we all just looked at each other like —yep, that’s it! That’s the next song. She’s from Texas, the girl he went with. And I thought well…you know I love a song like that.”

The song instantly captivated fans, and since its release, it has become increasingly popular. Recently, the tune made history as it reached the #1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

“Choosin’ Texas” rose from the #2 spot to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 (dated February 14th), becoming Langley’s very first #1 on the all-genre chart. In turn, she’s become just the seventh female country artist IN HISTORY to go #1 on the Hot 100 with a country song.

Additionally, with “Choosin’ Texas” spending its 11th week at #1 on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart, Langley becomes just the third female artist in history to have a #1 on both the Hot Country Songs chart and Billboard Hot 100 simultaneously. With this, she joins Swift (“All Too Well [Taylor’s Version]” and “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together”) and Beyoncé (“Texas Hold ‘Em”)… who are not even country artists. Even more incredibly, she is now the first female artist ever to capture triple up and score #1s on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs, Country Airplay and Hot 100 chart simultaneously.

“Choosin’ Texas” also remains the best-selling song of the year in the United States, surpassing Swift’s “The Fate of Ophelia” last Thursday. Truly incredible the history this single has made.

Over the weekend, co-writer Miranda Lambert paid homage to the song she had a hand in creating and covered it during her headlining set at the Daytona International Speedway for the Daytona 500. There is no better way to celebrate a hit song like this than covering it in front of a sold-out crowd.

This is not Lambert’s first time covering “Choosin’ Texas,” and just as she’s done in the past, she blew it out of the water.

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