Though the ceremony for the 2025 ACM Awards continues to be just a few days away, Ella Langley and Riley Inexperienced are early winners for his or her breakthrough hit “You Look Like You Love Me.” The shock was revealed whereas the pair had been on stage at Nation Thunder in Tampa, Florida, Friday evening (Might 2) — with the reveal coming from none apart from nation icon and 18-time ACM Awards host Reba McEntire.
A particular video from Reba, during which she congratulated the 2 artists as winners of this 12 months’s award for visible media of the 12 months (for his or her “You Look Like You Love Me” music video), performed throughout Inexperienced’s set on the competition on Friday. Langley receives honors for each artist and director within the class.
“Sorry to interrupt, however I’ve some massive information,” Reba teased within the clip that introduced their win. “Congratulations to Ella and Riley! Can’t wait to have a good time with you each in Frisco!”
Langley realized of her first Academy of Nation Music award only a week in the past, throughout her set at Rock the Nation in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Information of that first win — for brand spanking new feminine artist of the 12 months — arrived courtesy of pal and co-writer Miranda Lambert by way of video message. (Lambert, who referred to as Langley “my soul sister in nation music and a companion in crime,” was named winner in the identical class 18 years in the past.)
Langley’s the most-nominated artist on the sixtieth ACM Awards.
With two awards to her title already, a number of stay up for grabs for the singer-songwriter at this 12 months’s ceremony: feminine artist of the 12 months, plus single of the 12 months, tune of the 12 months and music occasion of the 12 months (all for her “You Look Like You Love Me” duet with Inexperienced). For tune of the 12 months, the 2 are nominated as each artists and songwriters.
The twangy, flirty barroom duet, launched in 2024, made it to No. 1 on Billboard’s Nation Airplay chart, No. 7 on Sizzling Nation Songs and No. 30 on the Billboard Sizzling 100.
The 2025 ACM Awards will stream reside globally on Prime Video and the Amazon Music channel on Twitch on Thursday, Might 8 at 8 p.m. ET / 7 p.m. CT / 5 p.m. PT from the Ford Heart at The Star in Frisco, Texas. Count on to tune in for two-and-a-half hours to catch the total present.
The Academy of Nation Music Awards is the longest-running nation music awards present, with its inaugural 12 months being 1966.
The ACM Awards are produced by Dick Clark Productions, which is owned by Penske Media Eldridge, a three way partnership between Eldridge Industries and Billboard mum or dad firm Penske Media.
