Nashville’s biggest feud heats up as Ella Langley slams Riley Green for taking credit for her success

A new feud seems to be brewing in Nashville. Country star Riley Green has been accused of taking credit for one of the hottest voices in his genre – Ella Langley. The duo have collaborated together multiple times, with Langley serving as an opening act for him on tour and releasing the songs You Look Like You Love Me and Don’t Mind If I Do with him. Yet now Green has seemingly ruffled feathers with his collaborator after he made remarks about her current success.  While attempting to persuade musical duo Ferryn & Brinkley to join his team on The Voice, Green, 37, mentioned Langley, 27, as an example of an act he worked with who is now a major superstar. ‘There was a girl that reminded me a lot of y’all. I took her on tour with me. Her name’s Ella Langley,’ he said. ‘She’s doing pretty well.’ Country star Riley Green has been accused of taking credit for Ella Langley’s success while on The Voice – and it seems to have ruffled feathers with the Choosin’ Texas singer. Above, together in June 2025Word eventually got back to Langley during a recent Instagram Live and she didn’t seem to take kindly to Riley’s namedrop. ‘When Riley took credit for your success on ‘The Voice,’ did that rub you the wrong way?!’ a fan asked her.Langley, who was getting her hair and makeup done, didn’t immediately respond but did eventually react without saying Green’s name, according to Us Weekly. ‘Yeah, when that man took credit? No, didn’t love that, but typical. Typical. Pretty typical,’ she said. Us Weekly also reports Langley unfollowed Green after the comment.  The Daily Mail has contacted representatives for Langley and Green for comment. Langley’s song Choosin’ Texas has seen record-breaking success, spending 24 weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 before Taylor Swift recently unseated it with Patient Zero.The feat made the songstress the longest-running solo female artist to top the chart.The singer-songwriter is currently embarking on The Dandelion Tour, and is now performing in Los Angeles.  Langley was asked about the comment during a recent Instagram Live  Green mentioned Langley to persuade a musical duo to join his team on The VoiceAt this year’s Academy of Country Music (ACM) Awards, the songstress received five awards – including Female Artist of the Year and Artist-Songwriter of the Year.Choosin’ Texas claimed the honors for song of the year and single of the year while her song with Green, Don’t Mind if I Do, was named music event of the year. In her speech for song of the year, the Weren’t for the Wind artist said she was ‘at a loss for words’ amid the occasion.’I’m trying to get to say something but I can’t,’ an emotional Langley told the crowd as she set an ACM record for most wins in a year by a single artist. The You Look Like You Love Me singer, accepting the honors for female artist of the year, named three of the four women she was nominated against – Lainey Wilson, Miranda Lambert and Kelsea Ballerini. (Megan Moroney was also nominated.) The musicians have collaborated numerous times together, and even accepted the award for Music Event of the Year for Don’t Mind If I Do at the 2026 ACM Awards  While attempting to persuade musical duo Ferryn & Brinkley to join his team, Green, 37, mentioned Langley, 27, as an example of an act he worked with who is now a major superstar’Thank you to the women in this category – to the women in this life,’ she said. ‘This is a weird thing to do.’And today, I was having a strange day … I walked right into Lainey’s room and she hugged me.’Langley said that ‘and all of a sudden, here comes Miranda Lambert in her pink hat… Kelsea, thank you so much for lovin’ on me.’She declared: ‘I would not be standing up here without the encouragement of so many women.’Thank you to the women – I would not be standing up here without them – so, thank you.’ The country music artist also thanked her ‘family, for showing up and being weird as always’ and Jesus Christ ‘for letting me do this for a living.’