<P> "I Took a Pill in Ibiza" (also known by its censored title "In Ibiza" or its clean title "I Took a Plane to Ibiza") is a song by American singer Mike Posner . The song, originally acoustic guitar - based, was remixed by the Norwegian trio SeeB and released in the United States on July 24, 2015, digitally as a single from Posner's second EP, The Truth as well as the lead single from his second studio album, At Night, Alone . </P> <P> The famous SeeB remix reached the top ten of the charts in twenty seven countries, including number one in Belgium, Ireland, Israel, Netherlands, Norway and the United Kingdom . In the latter country, the song remained at the top of the charts for four weeks . It has achieved high chart positions in Posner's native United States, where it reached number one on both the Billboard Dance / Mix Show Airplay Chart and the Billboard Pop Songs chart . It also peaked at number four on the main chart Billboard Hot 100 . The song became Posner's biggest single, outperforming his debut, "Cooler than Me" (2010), and was later nominated for Grammy Award for Song of the Year . </P> <P> It was sort of a mystery pill . I was already under the influence of alcohol at the time . I had written a song with Avicii that week in Sweden called "Stay with You" and he was playing in Ibiza so I said,' I will just go there with you,' because I was already in Europe . I don't have like a regular 9--5 job...so might as well go to Ibiza, right? I had never been there before . So I went . We were at his show and I was drinking at the time . I just sort of moseyed out into the audience to watch Avicii spin from their point of view . I would go back and forth between the backstage and the VIP area and then where the actual kids were . And most people didn't know who the fuck I was in Ibiza except for this one guy who recognized me . He was like,' Are you Mike Posner?' and he was all excited . He holds up this little bag of pills and is like,' You want one?' And drunk Mike Posner was like,' Fuck it, yeah .' So I took one and I had never done that before, and then I felt amazing . Then when I came down I felt 10 years older . </P> <P> Regarding their remix, SeeB told Official Charts: "We got it from Matt D'Arduini, VP A&R at Island Records . It was really slow and we only listened to the vocals on it . Matt sent us the multitrack of Mike's new EP and we picked "Ibiza" right away . Such a brilliant lyric and melody but it needed a new soundscape to be a hit ." Posner has called the success of the remix version both "ironic" and "beautiful": "I wrote this sad thing, and it was me processing some dark and heavy emotion, and now people seem to be having their own joyous memories out of my sadness . That's a very beautiful thing as an artist ." </P>

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