Ella Langley & Zach Top To Perform At ACM Awards Following New Female & Male Artist of the Year Wins
Ella Langley & Zach Top.
Ella Langley and Zach Top are set to perform at next week’s 60th ACM Awards on May 8 following their wins for ACM New Female Artist of the Year and ACM New Male Artist of the Year.
Langley, the top nominee at the upcoming ACMs, was surprised with her ACM New Female Artist of the Year Award on Friday afternoon (Apr. 25) while on stage at Rock The Country in Knoxville, Tennessee. The news was broken to Langley through a special video from the most winning artist in ACM history, Miranda Lambert, congratulating Langley for winning her first ACM.
Langley’s win arrives after the release of her debut album, Hungover, which features her massive hit single, “You Look Like You Love Me,” featuring Riley Green. The track marked her Billboard Hot 100 debut, earned Langley her first No. 1 single and made her the first of only two female artists to lead the Billboard Country Airplay Chart in 2024. Langley received the most nominations at the ACM Awards this year with eight nods, including New Female Artist of the Year, Female Artist of the Year, and six nominations for “You Look Like You Love Me” including Single of the Year, Song of the Year (as an artist and songwriter), Music Event of the Year and Visual Media of the Year (as an artist and director).
“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,” shared Langley. “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.”
Top, who is also nominated for ACM Album of the Year for his debut album Cold Beer & Country Music, was surprised with his ACM Male Artist of the Year Award on Thursday night (Apr. 24) prior to his sold-out show in Wilmington, North Carolina. The news was revealed to Top by the the most winning Duo in ACM history, Brooks & Dunn, through a special congratulations video as well.
“I couldn’t be more honored, and I can’t say a big enough thank you to my fans for loving music and loving what we do on the road and listening to the songs every day,” Top shared. “It means the world to me, I’ve always wanted to just play and sing for a living, and I get to do that now and it’s cool to be able to get a little trophy every now and then to let us know that we’re doing good doing it. So thank you so much, this is beautiful.”
Top’s win comes after the success of his debut album, which garnered more than 3.5 million streams in its first week. His sold-out “Cold Beer & Country Music Tour” included stops at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, New York’s Terminal 5 and Boston’s MGM Music Hall at Fenway, and he is also supporting select dates on Alan Jackson’s “Last Call Tour” this year and will join Dierks Bentley’s “Broken Branches Tour,” kicking off next month.
Hosted by Reba McEntire, the 60th ACM Awards will stream live on Prime Video and the Amazon Music channel on Twitch on May 8 at 7 p.m. CT from the Ford Center at The Star in Frisco, Texas.
