Making history. This weekend, Riley Green and Ella Langley scored their second #1 hit together with their duet “Don’t Mind If I Do,” which topped the Billboard’s Country Airplay chart, one of two charts labels use to officially track their songs performance. It marks Riley’s fourth Country Airplay #1 and Ella’s second, and they’re now just the second pair since the list launched in January 1990 to have earned multiple collaborative #1s, after Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani led in 2020 with “Nobody but You” and “Happy Anywhere.” For Riley, he becomes the first artist since Taylor Swift to land back-to-back Country Airplay #1s with songs written entirely on his or her own. One of his other solo writes, “Worst Way,” led the chart for two weeks in June. View this post on Instagram “Don’t Mind If I Do” is the title track to Riley’s 2024 third studio album, and it’s actually a solo write by Riley. I firmly believe that Riley’s solo writes are some of his best songs, and that is NOT easy to do, actually, and this is easily one of my favorite song Riley has put out in years. It’s slow, heartfelt, and full of heartbreak, a Riley Green specialty, but it was apparently intended to be an upbeat beer drinkin’ song at first. Riley told Katie Neal during an interview on her Katie & Company radio show that he penned it while backstage at a show in Rogers, Arkansas: “I was in the green room in Rogers, Arkansas, I played a show at the Walmart amphitheater. And there’s a Topgolf next door, and I had a bunch of buddies from Arkansas come to the show, and they were all going to Topgolf, and remember thinking, yeah I’ll send them all over there and then I can like have some quiet. So I sent everybody to Topgolf, and I wrote the song in the green room. I remember my security guard kept busting in and checking on me, and I was like, ‘I’m fine.’” He had a guitar lick that was a bit slower, and once he tried that out with this idea of “don’t mind if I do,” Riley says it was “really easy to write”: “I had the idea for a while. I think it was gonna be like a fun, beer drinking song. Don’t mind if I do, like, I went out last night. And that was the way I pictured it. So I sat down with the song, and I had this little guitar lick I was doing, and I thought about, man, how cool would it be if it was like, don’t mind if I do to that call from that ex or whatever it is. And so I went down that road, and it was a really easy song to write. And the first song I had written as a duet without a female involved in it. So that’s a little weird, you know, to write a females perspective on a chorus at the end but I thought that was cool.” It’s impressive how well he wrote that last chorus, and I very much prefer this Riley and Ella duet to their award-winning viral hit, “You Look Like You Love Me.” Speaking of that viral hit, Riley and Ella are coming off a huge showing at the CMA Awards last month, where they took home three awards for their 2024 smash hit, winning Single and Song of the Year as well as Music Video of the Year, sweeping its three eligible categories and becoming the FIRST song in the history of the CMA Awards to take home all three awards on a single night. They’ve had a huge run with both songs, and I’m sure “Don’t Mind If I Do” will win multiple awards as well in 2026. Riley has said he’s open to doing another duet with Ella, and clearly, it’s a recipe for success, so to speak, and people love them as a musical duo. Congratulations to Riley and Ella on another hit, that’s truly a great country song. It’s extremely well-deserved, and if you somehow haven’t heard it yet, it’s high time to change that… “Don’t Mind If I Do” The post Riley Green & Ella Langley Become Just The Second Pair Ever To Earn Multiple Collaborative #1s On Country Airplay Chart first appeared on Whiskey Riff.