Country music\u2019s current biggest star, Ella Langley, had another milestone moment in her career this week. After the record-breaking success of her mega hit \u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas\u201d and her sophomore album, Dandelion, climbing the top of the Billboard 200 album chart, Langley received her Powerhouse Award from Billboard last Wednesday, April 29. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The achievement carried even more weight thanks to the person who handed it to her.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ella Langley Gets Powerhouse Honor from Lainey Wilson\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
During the\u00a0Billboard\u00a02026 Women in Music event at the Hollywood Palladium, Wilson presented Langley with the Powerhouse Award. The \u201cSomewhere Over Laredo\u201d singer\u00a0said of\u00a0Langley, \u201cShe comes from the kind of place where you learn early how to work hard, tell the truth, and stand 10 toes down in who you are and the stories you were born to tell.\u00a0That\u2019s\u00a0what makes this Powerhouse Award feel so right.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Lainey Wilson Presents Ella Langley With the Powerhouse Award | Billboard Women In Music 2026<\/p>\n
Langley accepted the award but admitted to \u201cwinging it\u201d since her attempt to write an acceptance speech failed. \u201cTo me, Powerhouse is strength, resilience,” she said. “It’s\u00a0coming back when you\u00a0don’t\u00a0necessarily want to, but you feel like ‘I’m going to, I’m\u00a0gonna\u00a0fight for this, I’m\u00a0gonna\u00a0fight for this thing that I love to do.’ And this is something that\u00a0I’ve\u00a0wanted to do my whole entire life. There\u00a0hasn’t\u00a0been another dream for me, there\u00a0wasn’t\u00a0a day that I wanted to be anything else.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
She added, \u201cSo to get this award, I think all those years of kicking down doors to me \u2014 Powerhouse \u2014 didn’t go to waste, I guess.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ella Langley Accepts the Powerhouse Award | Billboard Women In Music 2026What\u2019s Next for Her?\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
After performing at Stagecoach<\/a> and dropping a new duet<\/a> with Morgan Wallen, the \u201cBe Her\u201d singer is busy gearing up for her The Dandelion Tour<\/a>. The tour kicks off on May 7 at Huntington Center, Toledo, Ohio and will wrap up on August 15 at Dickies Arena, Fort Worth, Texas.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Country music\u2019s current biggest star, Ella Langley, had another milestone moment in her career this week. After the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[12733,156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-406877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ella-langley","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}