Ella Langley Wins Record Seven ACM Awards

Ella Langley gave fans a look at her day at the Academy of Country Music Awards in an Instagram reel posted Wednesday.

The 27-year-old country singer showed herself arriving at the venue, getting hair and makeup done, and being carried to the car at the end of the night. "Welcome to today," she said at the start of the video. Later she told the camera, "This job is not something that you can kind of half a--. You just have to full force. Don't be afraid of embarrassing yourself."

The reel captured her entourage watching her win on a backstage television and urging her to cry and "get vulnerable." Langley said she has never cried when winning an award. "For all of you who get upset when I don't cry, here's your chance," she said while getting ready.

She also joked in the makeup chair after learning her song "Choosin' Texas" has the perfect beats per minute for CPR, pretending to perform the procedure while singing.

Langley took home seven ACM Awards on Sunday, breaking the previous record of six awards in one night set by Garth Brooks in 1991, Faith Hill in 1999 and Chris Stapleton in 2016. She won every category she was nominated for: female artist of the year, song of the year, single of the year, artist-songwriter of the year, visual media of the year (two awards) and music event of the year.

Langley first drew attention when her song "If You Have To" went viral on TikTok and led to a deal with Columbia Records/Sony Music Nashville. She reached wider success when "You Look Like You Love Me," from her 2024 debut album "Hungover," also went viral on the platform.

She said on an episode of "This Past Weekend with Theo Von" in April that the label initially doubted the song. "Everyone told me that song was not going to work," she recalled. After recording it, she said the label wanted her to redo the verses, but she refused. They warned it would be the worst-performing track on the album. Instead it became her first song to chart on the Billboard Hot 100 and won awards at both the CMA and ACM shows.

Her song "Choosin' Texas" spent 10 weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100, making her the first female country singer to top the Hot 100, Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay charts at the same time.