Ella Langley and Morgan Wallen's duet "I Can't Love You Anymore" has risen to No. 1 on Billboard's Country Airplay chart, reaching the summit in its 15th week on the Aug. 15-dated ranking Billboard. The song drew 33.4 million audience impressions — the measure of how many listeners heard the track on radio — from July 31 to Aug. 6, according to the data firm Luminate.

The chart-topping arrival gives Langley her fifth Country Airplay No. 1 and Wallen his 22nd. It also makes Wallen the first artist in the 36-year history of the Country Airplay chart to lead in consecutive weeks with different songs as a lead act, after his solo single "Don't We" held the top spot for the previous two weeks.

Only two other artists have managed back-to-back No. 1s with different songs in the chart's history. Tim McGraw did it in 2002, when "The Cowboy in Me" succeeded Jo Dee Messina's "Bring on the Rain," which billed McGraw as a featured vocalist. Wallen himself first pulled it off in 2024, when "Cowgirls," featuring ERNEST, replaced Post Malone's "I Had Some Help," featuring Wallen.

Langley co-wrote "I Can't Love You Anymore" with Austin Goodloe and Joybeth Taylor. The track was released via SAWGOD/Columbia Records Sony Music and debuted with a live performance during Wallen's stadium show in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, on April 18 Billboard. It entered the Billboard Hot 100 — the all-genre singles chart — inside the top 10 in early May Billboard.

The climb to No. 1 took six weeks less than the Country Airplay chart's historical average of 21 weeks. That pace is increasingly rare. In the 1990s, 90% of Country Airplay No. 1s completed their rise within 15 weeks. In the 2020s, only 10% have done so.

Three of Langley's five chart-toppers have reached the summit in 16 weeks or fewer. "Be Her" and "I Can't Love You Anymore" each took 15 weeks, while "Choosin' Texas" needed 16. Her first two No. 1s — "You Look Like You Love Me" and "Don't Mind If I Do," both collaborations with Riley Green — took 20 and 22 weeks respectively.

Wallen's own trajectory tells a different story about how radio campaigns have slowed. His early Country Airplay No. 1s were slow burns: "Up Down" with Florida Georgia Line took 32 weeks, "Whiskey Glasses" 40, "Chasin' You" 42, "More Than My Hometown" 26, and "Sand in My Boots" 34.

Langley's run through 2026 has been steady. She held the top two spots on the Hot Country Songs chart — which blends streaming, sales and radio airplay — in March with "Choosin' Texas" at No. 1 and "Be Her" at No. 2 Billboard. "Be Her" spent a second week at Country Airplay No. 1 in June, marking her second multiweek chart-topper. "I Can't Love You Anymore" also reached No. 1 on the MusicRow Radio Chart in late July MusicRow.

On the previous week's Aug. 8-dated Country Airplay chart, the duet had held at its No. 2 peak with 32.5 million audience impressions Billboard. One week later, it closed the gap.