DARE YOU to Find a Better CMA Duet in the Last Decade? Ella Langley and Riley Green’s Electrifying “You Look Like You Love Me” Performance Stole the Show — And Left Everyone Speechless!From the very first note, Ella Langley and Riley Green’s voices blended with a natural harmony that felt like years of friendship, lighting up the CMA Awards stage like pure magic. The chemistry between these two Alabama natives was undeniable — every glance and every breath pulled the crowd deeper into their spell. The unforgettable moment? Riley standing up in the audience as his mom lovingly placed his hat on his head, turning a stellar performance into a heartfelt, genuine country moment fans won’t stop talking about. They didn’t just sing — they owned the night. Watch the unforgettable performance below!

Ella Langley

A whole lot of hardware for a single song.

Last night at the 59th CMA Awards, the stars aligned for for Ella Langley. In addition to a killer performance of her current surging single, “Choosin’ Texas,” which is currently sitting at #5 on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart, the Alabama native took home not one but three awards for her 2024 smash hit with Riley Green, “you look like you love me.” The track would win Single and Song of the Year as well as Music Video of the Year, sweeping its three eligible categories and becoming the first song in the history of the CMA Awards to take home all three awards on a single night.

In many ways, “you like you love me” has simply been the gift that keeps on giving for Langley and Green. Beyond its massive streaming numbers (267 million on Spotify alone), it’s been one of the most-played songs on Billboard’s new TouchTunes Frontline chart, peaking at #6 throughout the second quarter of 2025. Couple all those accolades with a 2x platinum certification from the RIAA and a #1 spot on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart last December, and you have yourself one of the most successful songs of the past few years.

“Just how successful has ‘you look like you love me’ been for the powerhouse duo?” Well, I’m glad you asked. Taking a look at its final run in terms of award-season eligibility, it finished with a staggering seven separate wins across the ACM and CMA Awards.

They notched their first win last year at the 58th CMA Awards when the track won its only nomination of the night for Musical Event of the Year. Fast forward a few months to the 2025 ACM Awards, and the floodgates began to open. On a huge night for Langley that included a win for New Female Artist of the Year, she also struck gold with “you look like you love me” once again. Scoring wins for Visual Media, Music Event and Single of the Year, the only category the massive track failed to win was Song of the Year, which went to Cody Johnson’s “Dirt Cheap.”

Finally, as previously mentioned, it completed the rare Single/Song of the Year sweep and joined the likes of Brooks & Dunns’ “Believe,” Chris Stapleton’s “White Horse” and Randy Travis’ “Forever And Ever, Amen” as one of the few songs in the history of the CMA Awards to win both in a single year last night at the CMA Awards.

There can be full-length thesis papers done on the massive virality and overall impact that the track has had on both Green and Langley in particular, but one of the most interesting thing to note about it, all seven awards and all, is the simple fact that neither of the two superstars actually thought the song would see the light of day, let alone the success its experienced over the past 18 months.

For Langley, she would reveal that the song was never even supposed to be recorded, originally being written as a joke with co-writer, Aaron Ratier in an appearance on The Bobby Bones Show back in September 2024.

“The song was never supposed to leave my audio recordings. I wrote it as a joke with Aaron Ratier first, and then the label heard it and loved it and then Riley asked us on tour. And him and I just kind of being from the same area, growing up on the same kind of music, I was thinking maybe we could do it out on the road. That’s why I asked him to do it, and I was like, ‘Hey, just kind of write the second verse how you would respond to a girl coming up to you like that.’”

As for Green, he also had his doubts about the song, at least from a commerical perspective. In an interview with Zach Sang, he’d note that he thought the song was much too traditional to have success on the radio nowadays. He’d also reveal that he thought it was going to be nothing more than a song the pair performed out on the road together

“I didn’t think it was a hit because I thought talking verses were way too traditional to work. But I thought, ‘Well, it would be cool to have a song that we could do together on the road… I thought it was fun; I thought it was something that kind of stayed in your head a little bit. But again, [it] just goes to show you I don’t know because I had no idea it would be the big hit that it was.”

A full list of awards won by “you look like you love me” includes the following: