Ella Langley made history as the winningest artist of the night at the 60th ACM Awards, taking home an impressive five trophies. Langley was awarded ACM New Female Artist of the Year, as well as ACM Single of the Year, ACM Music Event of the Year, and ACM Visual Media of the Year (as an artist and producer) for her song “you look like you love me” with Riley Green.
The Alabama native was surprised with her trophy for ACM New Female Artist of the Year at Rock The Country in Knoxville, TN on Friday, April 25. The news was delivered via a video message from Miranda Lambert.
“Every day of my life, I’ve just prayed about this and thought about it, and literally everything I’ve ever done was to be able to do this. I’m so grateful for the team I have around me,” Langley said. “I’m just really grateful to have fans that are listening to the music and see that it is truth and I’m just a real life human being going through life like the rest of everyone else, and to see the things that I go through is something that everyone else goes through.”
During the show, Langley took home Single of the Year for “You Look Like You Love Me” featuring Riley Green.
“I am still out of breath a little and I feel like I kind of have been since this song came out. I grew up, and I know all three of us did, we grew up on classic country with a lot of talking in it…Conway Twitty, Johnny Lee, David Allen Cole. This song really changed it for me as a songwriter, it taught me to just not care so much and write what you love and write what feels good,” she stated from the stage. “And I couldn’t have done it without Will Bundy producing it. And obviously Riley Green writing a second verse.”
Later in the show, they were presented with the trophy for Music Event of the Year.
“I was so stunned up here last time. I literally blacked out. I have no idea what I said…Something about Conway Twitty, I think, I don’t know this time,” she began. “First off, I want to start off by thanking God. This is his thing I’ve wanted to do my whole life. I’ve never wanted to do anything else and in dark times I know that he has put this passion on my heart for a reason.”
She admitted she was “still flabbergasted” before thanking her team and her fans.
The ACM winner was “on cloud nine” at the end of the night. In addition to winning five trophies, she also turned heads with two performances, including “Weren’t For The Wind” and a surprise appearance alongside Miranda Lambert in celebration of the 20th anniversary of “Kerosene.”
The 60th Academy of Country Music Awards also featured performances by Alan Jackson, Blake Shelton, Chris Stapleton, Eric Church, Brothers Osborne, Miranda Lambert, Lainey Wilson, Kelsea Ballerini and Megan Moroney.
The show also featured a series of collaborations and milestone moments. Wynonna Judd led a powerful 12-minute medley celebrating ACM Songs of the Year from the past six decades, joined by Reba McEntire, Clint Black, Sugarland, Dan + Shay, and LeAnn Rimes. Meanwhile The Backstreet Boys joined forces with Rascal Flatts, Jelly Roll teamed up with Shaboozey and Brooks & Dunn stole the show alongside Cody Johnson.
Reba McEntire hosted the two-and-a-half-hour, commercial-free event, which streamed live to a global audience in over 240 countries and territories on Prime Video and the Amazon Music channel on Twitch, direct from the Dallas Cowboys’ world headquarters at The Ford Center at The Star in Frisco, Texas.
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