{"id":22598,"date":"2026-05-01T13:34:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T13:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/?p=22598"},"modified":"2026-05-01T13:34:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T13:34:30","slug":"just-when-you-thought-country-music-couldnt-get-any-more-electric-ella-langley-drops-a-bombshell-at-the-billboard-women-in-music-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/?p=22598","title":{"rendered":"Just when you thought country music couldn\u2019t get any more electric, Ella Langley drops a bombshell at the Billboard Women in Music Awards!"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"post-87669\" class=\"post-87669 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-uncategorizedd212a\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<h2><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/countryrebel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Ella-Langley-Lainey-Wilson-powerhouse-billboard-featured.png\" alt=\"On April 29, Lainey Wilson honored Ella Langley at the Billboard Women in Music Awards, presenting her with the Powerhouse Award before Ella performed a stunning acoustic rendition of &quot;Choosin' Texas.&quot;\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2 id=\"the-honor-at-the-billboard-women-in-music-awards-was-presented-to-ella-langley-by-lainey-wilson\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Honor At The Billboard Women In Music Awards Was Presented To Ella Langley By Lainey Wilson<\/h2>\n<p>On Wednesday, April 29, the 19th annual\u00a0<em>Billboard<\/em>\u00a0Women in Music event was held at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles, California.<\/p>\n<p>There, Ella Langley, who is presently atop the\u00a0<em>Billboard<\/em>\u00a0Hot 100 for her eighth nonconsecutive week for \u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas,\u201d was presented with a special award by one of her peers.<\/p>\n<p>Lainey Wilson was on hand to honor Ella with the Powerhouse Award.<\/p>\n<div class=\"J3Lm1ydF\"><\/div>\n<p>The presentation of this award was then followed up with Ella performing a stunning acoustic rendition of \u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the award ceremony, Lainey commented on Ella while on the Red Carpet, praising her for what she has accomplished.<\/p>\n<p>Watch her red carpet remarks, here:<\/p>\n<div class=\"eWeP9KMT\"><\/div>\n<p><iframe id=\"instagram-embed-0\" class=\"instagram-media instagram-media-rendered\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DXvWW3zBIny\/embed\/captioned\/?cr=1&amp;v=14&amp;wp=1080&amp;rd=https%3A%2F%2Fcountryrebel.com&amp;rp=%2Fella-langley-powerhouse-acoustic-choosin-texas%2F#%7B%22ci%22%3A0%2C%22os%22%3A163.40000000596046%2C%22ls%22%3A117.29999999701977%2C%22le%22%3A117.29999999701977%7D\" height=\"987\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-instgrm-payload-id=\"instagram-media-payload-0\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-origwidth=\"\" data-origheight=\"987\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"watch-ella-langley-perform-an-acoustic-rendition-of-choosin-texas\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Watch Ella Langley Perform An Acoustic Rendition Of \u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas\u201d<\/h2>\n<p><em>\u201cI am so proud to be here tonight to honor my country music sister, Ella Langley,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0said Lainey Wilson as she introduced the Powerhouse Award.<\/p>\n<p>The Powerhouse Award is given out each year to recognize an artist whose music was dominant in streaming, sales, and radio.<\/p>\n<p>Continuing, Lainey said,\u00a0<em>\u201cEvery now and then, you meet somebody who just has that thing that you cannot teach.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Noting that she first met Ella in Tin Roof in Nashville, Tennessee, and was drawn to the\u00a0<em>\u201cfire\u201d<\/em>\u00a0within her.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cShe\u2019s the kind of chick that don\u2019t just walk into a room, she kicks the door in,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Lainey said.\u00a0<em>\u201cShe comes from the kind of place where you learn early that you gotta work hard, tell the truth, and stands 10 toes down in who you are and the stories you were born to tell.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Lainey went on to share that she feels Ella embodies the Powerhouse Award, noting,\u00a0<em>\u201c[Ella] has the backbone, the work ethic, and the staying power to keep showing up, keep growing, and keep proving exactly who you are.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Despite all of Ella\u2019s accomplishments \u2014 with having her second album,\u00a0<em>Dandelion<\/em>, at the top of the\u00a0<em>Billboard<\/em>\u00a0200; and having the No. 1 song, \u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas,\u201d on the Billboard Hot 100 and the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts simultaneously \u2014 Lainey said,\u00a0<em>\u201cElla is still Ella. She is still hungry, she is still curious, and still wantin\u2019 to know more, do more, and be more.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Lainey concluded by saying,\u00a0<em>\u201cElla, I love you, and I believe in you, and I will always be cheering you on.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Then, Ella took the stage, performing an acoustic rendition of \u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Following her performance, Ella accepted the Powerhouse Award,\u00a0<em>\u201cwingin\u2019\u201d<\/em>\u00a0her speech.<\/p>\n<p>There, she said,\u00a0<em>\u201cPowerhouse Award. To me, powerhouse is strength, resilience, it\u2019s comin\u2019 back when you don\u2019t necessarily want to, but you feel like, \u2018I\u2019m going to. I\u2019m gonna fight for this.\u2019\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Concluding her remarks, she said,\u00a0<em>\u201cThis is something I\u2019ve wanted to do my whole entire life. There hasn\u2019t been another dream for me, there wasn\u2019t a day that I wanted to be anything else, so to get this award, all those years of kickin\u2019 down doors \u2014 to me, \u2018powerhouse\u2019 \u2014 didn\u2019t go to waste.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Watch Lainey Wilson present Ella Langley with the Powerhouse Award, as well as Ella\u2019s acoustic rendition of \u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas,\u201d here:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"perfmatters-lazy-youtube\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MraCjASKMpE\" data-id=\"MraCjASKMpE\" data-query=\"start=3002&amp;feature=oembed\">\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Billboard Women In Music 2026 Full Show\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MraCjASKMpE\" width=\"350\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-origwidth=\"350\" data-origheight=\"235\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><ins class=\"982a9496\" data-key=\"7087b3515d5851aa93e88941ebb208f5\"><\/ins>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-tags\"><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"entry-footer\">\n<div class=\"share-icons\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"author-box clear\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Honor At The Billboard Women In Music Awards Was Presented To Ella Langley By Lainey Wilson On Wednesday, April 29, the 19th annual\u00a0Billboard\u00a0Women in Music event&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22599,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22600,"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22598\/revisions\/22600"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}