Morgan Wallen Explains Why Ella Langley Deserves Her Success: “I Know the Sacrifices She's Made”

Morgan Wallen has expressed his admiration for Ella Langley in a new episode of Morgan Wallen Radio on SiriusXM, with the Sneedville native underlining that Langley deserves all the success she's been enjoying over the past twelve months or so.

Wallen reflects on, thanks to their ongoing friendship, he's been able to witness Langley's impressive ascent over the years, “You know, we've kind of had a front row seat to seeing her from very early on. I know how hard she's worked, I know how long she's been working at it, I believe since she was, you know, 17 or 18 years old, not getting to do all the things that most 17 and 18 year olds and on get to do”.

The ‘Last Night’ maverick stresses that it's no accident that Langley has ended up at the top of the all-genre charts and with a rapidly growing collection of accolades, “I know how much of a sacrifice she's made to get to this point and it makes me extremely happy to see all the good things coming her way. She truly deserves it”.

Wallen concludes by emphasising that he believes Langley's rise is not a flash in the pan, rather, she'll be sticking around, “I think she's gonna be here for a very long time”.

Langley has often spoken about the sacrifices she had to make on her path to country stardom, with the ‘Butterfly Season’ crooner taking time away from touring last year in order to prioritise her mental health, after spending years toiling away on the road.

At the age of just 20, Langley dropped out of Auburn University, where she was studying forestry, to move to Nashville and chase her dream of becoming a country artist.

Following this, it took a good few years of playing small gigs and bar shows as she built up her reputation, before earning her break-out moment in 2024 with ‘you look like you love me’. Now, Langley's infectious, traditional-leaning single, ‘Choosin’ Texas’, sits atop the prestigious all-genre Billboard Hot 100 for its fifth nonconsecutive week.

Wallen and Langley have struck up a heartwarming friendship in recent years, with the duo linking up on-stage on a number of occasions throughout 2025 and, more recently, at Wallen's intimate Morgan Wallen Radio launch show at Nashville's Pinnacle.

At the latter, they performed the ‘Love Somebody’ singer-songwriter's beloved Dangerous ballad, ‘Sand in My Boots’, for the first time. In November, Langley invited Wallen to serenade the packed-out crowd at her Ryman Auditorium show with ‘Cover Me Up’.

Previously, they tended to perform Wallen's pop-infused Tate McRae collaboration, ‘What I Want’, one of the many stand-outs from his stellar 2025 album, I'm the Problem.

They're quickly consolidating themselves as two of the biggest names in modern country, with Langley rivalling Wallen's status as country's Hot 100 hitmaker. When Wallen brought out Langley at his Pinnacle show to a rapturous response from the audience, he wryly complained, “I don't know if y'all cheered that loud for me, man!”

During her appearance on Theo Von's This Past Weekend ahead of her new album, Dandelion, Langley joked about messing up the words when performing ‘What I Want’, “You're playing in a stadium, it's the most people you've ever been in front of. You're walking out with Morgan Wallen. It's like, ‘Here you go, you get one shot at it!’”

She went on, “There's no practice, too, you know? You get like one rehearsal, you go out there and it's like, ‘Okay...’ But what was awesome is the last time we did it, he came out and messed up the words, and when he did that I started to laugh so hard ‘cause he was giving me so much s*** about messing up the words. He was like, ‘You can't come out here and mess this up again’. I was like, ‘I might! I really am scared that I might’. So the last night he did and it was like he just immediately could never say another thing to me about messing up the words”.

Hilariously, Langley revealed that Wallen has been claiming he intentionally forgot the lyrics for her sake, “That was nice of him if he did that on purpose. That's what he says now, he's like, ‘That's why I did it, to make you feel better about all the times’”.

Langley joins up with Wallen again on a smattering of his 2026 Still the Problem Tour dates, including a blockbuster show in her home-state of Alabama at Bryant-Denny Stadium later in April, along with stops in Indiana, Florida, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Illinois, South Carolina and Maryland. Given how often they've been playing together of late, and how incredible they sound when performing alongside one another, we're hoping they might have an official duet up their sleeves, potentially as part of Wallen's long-rumoured deluxe album, Still the Problem...

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