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She’s a superstar. Last night, Ella Langley headlined Ottawa Bluesfest in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, where she played to what I imagine was the biggest crowd of her Dandelion tour thus far. According to the Ottawa Citixen, over 40,000 people were in attendance for her set at LeBreton Flats Park. Apparently, it was also one of the rare times the festival had sold out before it started, and Ella told the crowd how thankful she was to be there, saying: “I’m so grateful. I just always believed it was my calling. If you feel called to do something in your life, do it. It’s gonna be hard but it pays off. Stick with the thing that makes you who you are.” Ella has completely blown up over the last year or two, and it’s really been incredible to watch. With her aforementioned Dandelion album, and more specifically her smash hit “Choosin’ Texas,” Ella is on fire right now and she’s quickly becoming an international star, too, as you will see in the video shared by Ottawa Bluesfest. I mean, it’s just incredible: View this post on Instagram It’s easily one of the hottest tickets in music this summer, and Ella is drawing crowds in numbers that are up there with the genres biggest acts, and it’s beyond impressive. Of course, Ella has been on an absolute tear this year, becoming the first country artist in history to hold the Top 2 songs in the United States simultaneously for more than one week with, and the first female country artist to score three of the Top 4 hits on the Hot 100 in a single week with country songs, becoming one of only nine artists in any genre to accomplish this feat. Langley’s generational success is not just limited to the Billboard charts, and as reported by Luminate this week, her smash hit “Choosin’ Texas” is the most-streamed song in all of music so far in 2026 in the United States with a staggering 570.9 million streams across platforms, beating out the likes of veteran superstars such as Taylor Swift, Bruno Mars, Bad Bunny and more. In case that wasn’t impressive enough, it currently holds a staggering 230 million-stream lead on the second-most-streamed track, Olivia Dean’s “Man I Need.” Just incredible… Top 10 most streamed songs of 2026 in the U.S. (midyear; via Luminate): #1. Choosin’ Texas 570.9M #2. Man I Need 340.2M #3. Ordinary 322.8M #4. Be Her 289.1M #5. DtMF 284.5M #6. Golden 282.8M #7. Stateside 272.4M #8. I Just Might 267.3M #9. The Fate of Ophelia 255.7M #10. So… — Talk of the Charts (@talkofthecharts) July 15, 2026 The Dandelion Tour Dates 7/23/2026 Pikeville, KY Appalachian Wireless Arena (#, %) 7/24/2026 Cary, NC Koka Booth Amphitheatre (#, %) 7/25/2026 North Charleston, SC North Charleston Coliseum (#, %) 7/30/2026 Gilford, NH BankNH Pavilion (@, %) 7/31/2026 Canandaigua, NY CMAC (@, %) 8/13/2026 Austin, TX Moody Center (#, &) 8/14/2026 Corpus Christi, TX Hilliard Center (#, &) 8/15/2026 Fort Worth, TX Dickies Arena (#, &) @ Kameron Marlowe + Dylan Marlowe # Kaitlin Butts & Gabriella Rose % Laci Kaye BoothThe post Ella Langley Plays For More Than 40,000 Fans At Canada Festival & It Looked Incredible first appeared on Whiskey Riff.

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