New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Grammy-nominated, worldwide multi-platinum selling singer-songwriter and producer
Mike Posner ("I Took a Pill in Ibiza", "
Cooler Than Me"), released his new album, A Real Good Kid, today via Island Records/Universal Music. This album is about pain, loss, and the joy that comes with it. It's about getting a call that my father has a tumor the size of a tangerine in his forehead. It's about selling my house in LA to move into the house I grew up in to help him die. It's about falling in love after his death. It's about having that relationship fall apart and not really knowing why. It's about somehow finding peace through it all." - Mike Posner
The long-awaited third album includes newly released tracks "
Move On", "
Stuck In The Middle" and "Song About You" - which find Mike coming to terms with the circumstances that real life sent his way. Mike emerges as a musician and storyteller, finding in his melodies and lyrics that beginnings always do hide themselves in ends.
The creation and completion of A REAL GOOD KID encompassed an extraordinary two year-plus period for Mike as he moved back into the house outside
Detroit where he grew up, in order to stay with his terminally ill father during his final months. The album, which tells his story, deals heavily with love, loss and eventually acceptance.
In a recently revealed video for "
Move On", Mike announced he will be setting out on a 9-month trek walking across
America starting March of this year. The video received over 10 million combined views in the first week alone, while fans showed their support with nearly 200K combined shares, comments, and personal playlist adds.
Since 2009, multi-platinum pop singer and songwriter
Mike Posner has quietly become one of the world's most inescapable and recognizable voices. In 2010, his debut, 31 Minutes to Takeoff, yielded the Double-Platinum "
Cooler Than Me" and Platinum-certified "
Please Don't Go" and "
Bow Chicka Wow Wow". In between tours with artists such as Justin Bieber, Mike became one of the industry's most sought after hitmakers. He's the man behind a string of smashes including Maroon 5's six-times Platinum "
Sugar", Justin Bieber's Triple-Platinum "
Boyfriend", and
Labrinth ft. Emeli Sandé's "
Beneath Your Beautiful" in addition to songs for everyone from Pharrell, Wiz Khalifa, and
Big Sean to T.I., Snoop Dogg, and Avicii.
In 2016, Mike's second full-length album, At Night, Alone, included the ubiquitous RIAA 4x-Platinum smash "
I Took A Pill In Ibiza"—which has amassed 3 billion worldwide streams, went Top 10 in 85 countries, held #1 on Top 40 for two weeks straight, made history as "one of Spotify's Top 10 Most Streamed Songs of All Time", and earned Mike a 2017 Grammy® nomination for "Song of The Year".
Along the way, Mike performed on The
Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Conan, Ellen, Late Night with Seth Meyers, The Late Late Show with
James Corden, Live with Kelly, and Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve.
Industry pundit Bob Lefsetz described his Grammy Museum show as "the most meaningful gig in memory." Mike has also received comprehensive features from CBS This Morning, NPR, Billboard, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, and many more.
Mike Posner - A REAL GOOD KID:
January 11th, 2017
Wide Open
Song About You
Move On
Drip
Staring at the Fire
Perfect
Amen
Stuck in the Middle
One More Song
How It's Supposed To Be
