Drake's 'Solar Eclipse' Is 'Choosin' Texas' Slowed Into a Minor Key

“Solar Eclipse” came out on 2 October as one of four songs Drake added to his May album, now released as HABIBTI (FOMO). The official listing names two artists, Drake and Don Toliver. Its credits name thirteen writers, and four of them are Ella Langley, Luke Dick, Miranda Lambert and Joybeth Taylor, the writers of “Choosin' Texas”. So the answer to what people are typing, the “drake choosin texas remix”, is yes. Langley is credited for the song she wrote, not as a featured artist.

The song he borrowed is not an old one. “Choosin' Texas” came out in October 2025 and spent 24 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, the longest run at the top in the chart's history, past Mariah Carey's “All I Want for Christmas Is You”. And it has not left. On the Spotify daily charts we read on 3 October it was No. 2 in the United States, Canada and Australia, No. 10 in the United Kingdom and No. 23 worldwide. Drake is reworking a song that is still near the top of the charts he wants to top.

What he changed

We measured both. The official lyric video of “Choosin' Texas” sits at about 112 beats per minute in C sharp major. “Solar Eclipse” sits at about 103, around 8 percent slower, in A sharp minor. Those two keys share every note: A sharp minor is C sharp major's darker twin. The sound moves the same way. Our measure of brightness, the average pitch of the whole mix, drops by about a fifth, from roughly 2,020 to 1,660 hertz. Key detection can mistake one of those twins for the other, so take the key as our reading; the slower tempo and the duller sound are not in doubt.

How it sounds

The first sixteen seconds are low and quiet, close to an R&B intro, and the voice comes in at 0:16. The borrowed line comes almost at once: our speech model hears the word “Texas” at 0:17 and again at 0:48. For most of its length the sound classifier hears R&B, rap and a heavy, rumbling low end rather than anything country. The fastest delivery, about three words a second, is between 1:47 and 2:07, the only stretch where the title is heard, and a different-sounding section runs from 2:17 to 3:08. The last thirty seconds fade almost to silence.

The preview got there first

Drake first played the new songs in his September film, Fear of Missing Out. A fan's upload of “Solar Eclipse”, posted on 16 September, more than two weeks before the release, had 2.12 million views on YouTube by 3 October. The official audio, up since the evening of 1 October, had about 425,000. On YouTube's daily trending list it was No. 15 in the United States and No. 16 in Canada. Under the official audio, the comments are about the pairing more than the source: of the 40 YouTube ranks highest, seven mention Don Toliver, with 1,127 likes between them, and three mention Langley or Texas.

Our call

Drake has made a darker, slower version of the longest-running No. 1 in Hot 100 history, and released it while the original is still being played more. Our bet: on Spotify's daily chart for the United States, “Solar Eclipse” is still below “Choosin' Texas” on 9 October.