Florida Georgia Line is again — at the very least for one evening.
Tyler Hubbard and Brian Kelley shocked followers Thursday evening when the duo reunited onstage for the primary time since they cut up in 2022.
The shock second went down at Damaged Bow Information’ annual late-night bash throughout Nation Radio Seminar in Nashville.
The pair carried out “You Make It Simple,” the hit they co-wrote with Morgan Wallen and Jordan Schmidt that Jason Aldean took all the way in which to No. 1 in 2018. Aldean was being honored on the occasion.
At one level onstage, Hubbard referred to Kelley as his “brother,” a telling signal that the duo might lastly be on higher phrases after years of hypothesis about their relationship.
The Grammy-nominated pair introduced their plans for an indefinite hiatus in February 2022 earlier than calling it quits after their remaining present that August.
Regardless of rumors of unhealthy blood, Hubbard just lately insisted the cut up was by no means as dramatic as followers believed.
“This solely turned massive and dramatic on the web,” he mentioned on a December 2025 episode of the “Human Faculty” podcast. “There’s not a great man, unhealthy man on this equation. There’s not a proper or a fallacious. Everybody needs to do this on the Web. They wish to say, ‘proper, fallacious, good man, unhealthy man. Group BK, Group T-Hub.’ It’s not even like that.”
The singer defined the breakup finally got here all the way down to inventive variations, with Kelley allegedly eager to pursue a solo profession whereas nonetheless conserving the group going — one thing Hubbard mentioned he wasn’t on board with.
“BK caught to his convictions and led together with his intestine and determined to decide based mostly on his ardour,” Hubbard mentioned. “I set a boundary that I wasn’t prepared to cross and it’s what it’s. We each accepted it manner earlier than the web accepted it.”
Nonetheless, the gap took a toll.
“I hadn’t spoken to BK rather a lot within the final couple years,” Hubbard went on to confess. “However we’re occurring a hike … I miss the man that I used to be companions with for 10 years. I miss my previous roommate, my finest man on my wedding ceremony.”
On March 3, Hubbard and Kelley had reunited offstage for a household ski journey in Idaho — alongside their wives Hayley and Brittney.
“Proof that God’s timing is all the time higher than ours,” Brittney Kelley wrote on Instagram. “This week was about therapeutic, laughter, and remembering the “why” that introduced us collectively within the first place.
“We left with peace concerning the previous and a reminder that redemption is actual and the longer term is brilliant.”
On Thursday evening, Aldean had proven up anticipating to play a music and depart, however was blindsided when a backdrop dropped to disclose greater than two dozen No. 1 plaques, celebrating his milestone of 31 chart-topping hits.
Artists together with Travis Tritt took the stage to honor Aldean, with Tritt performing “Evening Practice,” whereas others joined in all through the evening.
