Ella Langley and Riley Green: A Complete Timeline of the Country Stars’ Relationship

Are Ella Langley and Riley Green dating? They say no, but the entire country music community definitely ships it.

If you’re not big into country music, you might not know the names Ella Langley and Riley Green, but even you couldn’t have escaped their duet, “You Look Like You Love Me,” which dominated the charts, radio, and TikTok feeds following its release in June 2024.

Langley, 25, was opening for 36-year-old Green on tour when she played him a song and he decided to contribute a verse. “When we wrote the song, we were laughing thinking this might cause some marriages, maybe some divorces, and definitely some children,” Langley told People in November 2024.

While that may be the case, many country fans also saw the makings of a great love story unfolding before their very eyes. But according to Langley, the Alabama-born country singers are “just good friends.” Here’s everything we know about their friendship—and what they’ve said about dating.

March 3, 2024: Green confirms he’s “single” during an appearance on the In the Blind podcast, per People. How single? “Pretty damn.”

January 2025: According to People, fans begin speculating that Green and 27-year-old Megan Moroney are vacationing together in Saint Barthélemy. Interesting…

December 11, 2024: Once again, Green confirms the pair aren’t dating during an appearance on The Viall Files podcast. “Ella’s probably too smart to date me anyway,” he joked. “But I think that’s kind of the country music fan, like, they love the Tim McGraw and Faith [Hill], and the George [Jones] and Tammy [Wynette].”

He continued, “And when we fist started having the success we did with that song, I kinda told Ella, I was like, ‘There’s gonna be a lot of things said, but I mean, you don’t really have to play into it or not play into it, its gonna be something people enjoy the same way we do when we go listen to those songs, so it’s cool to have that moment on stage with her every night.’”

November 15, 2024: Moroney sings Langley’s part of “Don’t Mind If I Do” during a concert in Florida.

October 18, 2024: Green says the pair will likely release a joint album in the future. “Well at this rate, I think we’re working on it,” he tells Billboard. “I think people kind of long for that storybook type of thing, the George [Jones] and Tammy Wynette, or Johnny [Cash] and June [Carter] and all that. You haven’t seen it in a long time—maybe Tim [McGraw] and Faith [Hill] would be the closest thing we’ve seen and I don’t have a problem leaning into that at all. I think she writes great songs and I love her voice so I think if there’s something else that comes along that fits, we’ll probably do it.”

Still, he says they’re just friends. “With ‘You Look Like You Love Me,’ it’s a girl picking up a guy in a bar song, so I can totally see where that led fans to think something, and then we go with ‘Don’t Mind If I Do,’ which is a more heartfelt love song,” Green says. “But we’re just great friends and I’m really a fan of her music, so it’s awesome to have this success with her on both these songs.”

November 20, 2024: The same night they perform their duet at the CMA Awards, Riley Green and Ella Langley win the musical event of the year for “You Look Like You Love Me.”

September 27, 2024: Langley quashes relationship rumors. “We’re not dating,” Langley tells Taste of Country. “We’re just good friends.”

September 6, 2024: Green releases the single “Don’t Mind If I Do” featuring Langley. Prior to it’s release, Langley releases a teaser video on TikTok, sparking more fan speculation. One fan comments, “Are we not noticing the smiles on BOTH their faces after the ‘if you wanna know the truth it’s killing me not holding you right now’ 😭❤️.”

August 28, 2024: The release of their music video does little to stave off dating rumors. “I thought this was gonna be their ‘we’re official’ announcement,” commented on YouTube. “Can they please just get hitched already?!”

June 21, 2024: Langley’s hit track “You Look Like You Love Me” featuring Riley Green comes out, sparking relationship rumors alongside its viral success. “I think one of the first times we played it, you open your phone the next day and you couldn’t get away from it,” Green told People in November 2024. “It all kind of makes sense. The song’s just a huge hit and people really latched onto it from the first time it came out.”

February—June 2024: Ella Langley opens for Riley Green on his Ain’t My Last Rodeo tour. During that tour, they collab on Langley’s track “You Look Like You Love Me.” According to both parties, she had already cut a version of the song prior to joining Green’s tour.

“I heard the song through our mutual friend, and Ella played it for me some, and I wrote a verse for it, and it just became this giant hit song,” Green told Backstage Country in November 2024.

As Langley told People, “I was like, ‘Dang, imagine if Riley were to write a second verse of this song? Just him talking.’ It’s a different thing and stuff that we both grew up on.”

Green expanded on his verse’s origin during his appearance on The Viall Files. “I first heard it from a promoter that kind of helps manage her, a buddy of mine. I was touring in Alabama, and he would put her on some shows of mine. I liked her voice, she’s obviously from Alabama. Very country, which I liked,” he said. “And he played the song for me, and it wasn’t really pitched to me like it needed to be a duet, he was just like, ‘What do you think about this?’ And I was like, ‘It’s cool, like there’s something cool about the girl picking up the guy or whatever.’”

Green continued, “The second verse was like more of the first verse, and I thought, Well, Ella’s going on tour with me next year, maybe if the second verse was the guy’s perspective or something, we might have a song to play on tour. I had no idea it would be a hit at all.”

Prior to June 2024: Though they haven’t shared the specifics, Langley told People she’d known Green for “a long, long time,” while Green told Backstage Country the pair met through a mutual friend.

“Yeah, I’ve been a big fan of Ella Langley for a long time,” Green said. “We met through a mutual friend, and I was kinda in as soon as I heard her voice and her twang and how country she sounded, and also that she loved what I would call traditional country music.”

In September 2024, Langley told Taste of Country that Green was “probably the first famous person I ever met,” adding, “He was playing all the same bars I went to, and I played the same bars as him. It’s cool to see Alabama people winning!”

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