![]() I would go back and forth between the backstage and the VIP area and then where the actual kids were. I just sort of moseyed out into the audience to watch Avicii spin from their point of view. We were at his show and I was drinking at the time. so might as well go to Ibiza, right? I had never been there before. 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 was already under the influence of alcohol at the time. ![]() The song became Posner's biggest single, outperforming his debut, " Cooler than Me" (2010), and was later nominated for a Grammy Award for Song of the Year. It 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, also peaking at number four on the main chart Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks. In the latter country, the song remained at the top of the UK Singles Chart for four weeks. The SeeB remix peaked within the top ten of the charts in twenty-seven countries, including number one in Belgium, Israel, Netherlands, Norway, the Republic of Ireland, and the United Kingdom. Posner later confirmed that the identity of the mystery substance was MDMA. The title references Ibiza, a Mediterranean island that is part of the Balearic Islands of Spain, while the pill was a "mystery" drug according to Posner. The original version is on Posner's second EP The Truth, while both versions are on his second studio album At Night, Alone. The song, originally acoustic guitar-based, was remixed by Norwegian production duo (now trio) SeeB and released digitally as a single in the United States on April 14, 2015. " 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 Official Top 10 most downloaded songs of 2016 appear below: 1Official Music Video (SeeB remix) on YouTube The Official Biggest Albums of 2016 The Official Top 10 most streamed songs of 2016: 1 ![]() The full Top 100 Official Biggest Songs of 2016 Get more Official Charts news and features straight to your inbox with The Official Word newsletter The UK's Top 40 Official Biggest Songs of 2016 1 Just sneaking in the the Top 40 biggest songs of 2016 was Clean Bandit – their eight-week chart leader, and Official Christmas Number 1, Rockabye placed at 37. Zara Larsson’s Lush Life scored 13 weeks in the Top 10 back in spring 2016, and finished sixth with a tally of 1.16m, while The Chainsmokers were seventh with Closer, feat Halsey, on 1.15m, and Justin Bieber's Love Yourself claimed 1.14m combined sales to take eighth place.Ĭalum Scott's cover of Robyn classic Dancing On My Own peaked at Number 2 in August, and landed 12th with 1.11m, ahead of Major Lazer's massive Number 1 single Cold Water feat. ![]() Rihanna also made a showing, this time with Drake, at 9 with Work. Golden collaborators Calvin Harris and Rihanna reunited for This Is What You Came For, and while it stalled at Number 2 thanks to Drake, it still finished fifth for the year, racking up 1.28m combined sales over 2016. MORE: The Official Top 40 biggest songs of 2017 Mike Posner ’s big comeback track I Took A Pill In Ibiza (Seeb remix) spent four weeks at the summit in March/April and was the fourth biggest tune of the year, with a tally of 1.38m. Sia's Cheap Thrills spent 38 weeks in the Top 40 but missed out on a Number 1 – it did, however, claim its place as the third biggest song of 2015, clocking up 1.46m combined sales. The Danish band spent five weeks at Number 1, and actually finished top of the year's sales-only countdown. Up in second with a combined tally of 1.49 million, was Lukas Graham's 7 Years. MORE: The UK's Official Top 40 biggest albums of 2016 The most streamed song of 2016, One Dance also enjoyed the biggest one-week combined sales figure for a Number 1 single of the year, notching up 140,000 during its fourth week at the top in April. One Dance, Drake's first Number 1 as a lead artist, racked up 1.95 million combined sales over the year, made up of 530,000 downloads and an impressive 142 million streams. One Dance was the inescapable sound of the summer in 2016, notching up an astonishing 15 weeks at Number 1, equalling Wet Wet Wet’s epic stint with Love Is All Around in 1994 but falling short of the all-time record. 2016 was a big year for pop music, and sitting at the very top of the year-end rundown, which counts digital, physical and streaming equivalent sales, was – what else? – Drake's One Dance, feat.
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