Addicted to You (Avicii song)
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"Addicted to You" is a song by Swedish DJ and record producer
Avicii Tim Bergling (; 8 September 1989 – 20 April 2018), known professionally as Avicii (, ), was a Swedish DJ, remixer and music producer. At the age of 16, Bergling began posting his remixes on electronic music forums, which led to his first re ...
, incorporating vocals by American
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singer
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. The track was written by Avicii, Arash Pournouri,
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and
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for making appearance on Avicii's debut studio album, ''
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'' (2013), with it being later released as its fourth single. "Addicted to You" first premiered to Australian radio on 23 November 2013; a digital single of "Addicted to You" remixes was released on 11 March 2014.


Music video

The music video was directed by Sebastian Ringler and was shot in
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and Vaxholm. It is inspired by the story of
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and set in the 1930s. The video begins by showing a woman working in a bar as a waitress (played by Swedish actress Madeleine Minou Martin). At the same time, a blond woman enters (played by Swedish actress
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) and asks for a drink. She sips it and then throws the glass against the wall behind the bar. This is the signal for them to draw their guns and rob the place. After, they tour the snowy roads in a car. Arriving at night at home, they lie down on a bed while caressing passionately. They subsequently decide to rob a bank, and in the process they stop and start kissing passionately at a table while the still-terrified bank clients watch. The blonde woman places an explosive on the door of the safe box, but the police arrive and a sniper shoots her dead. Finally, her grieving girlfriend decides to take revenge by taking the explosive off of the safe, running out to the waiting police officers, and suicidally blows them all up.


Track listing

*;Digital download — remix #"Addicted to You" (
David Guetta Pierre David Guetta ( , ; born 7 November 1967) is a French DJ and music producer. He has over 10 million album and 65 million single sales globally, with more than 10 billion streams. In 2011, 2020 and 2021, Guetta was voted the number one D ...
Remix) – 5:18 *;Digital download — remixes #"Addicted to You" (Avicii by Avicii) – 5:31 #"Addicted to You" (David Guetta Remix) – 5:18 #"Addicted to You" ( Ishaan Manchanda Remix) – 3:48 #"Addicted to You" (
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Remix) – 5:00 #"Addicted to You" (
Albin Myers "Addicted to You" is a song by Swedish DJ and record producer Avicii, incorporating vocals by American folk rock singer Audra Mae. The track was written by Avicii, Arash Pournouri, Mac Davis and Josh Krajcik for making appearance on Avicii's deb ...
Remix) – 5:31 #"Addicted to You" (
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Remix) – 4:51 #"Addicted to You" (
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Remix) – 5:57


Personnel

;Musicians *
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Tim Bergling Tim Bergling (; 8 September 1989 – 20 April 2018), known professionally as Avicii (, ), was a Swedish DJ, remixer and music producer. At the age of 16, Bergling began posting his remixes on electronic music forums, which led to his first rec ...
– writer, producer * Arash Pournouri – writer, producer ;Additional personnel *
Mac Davis Morris Mac Davis (January 21, 1942 – September 29, 2020) was an American country music singer, songwriter, and actor. A native of Lubbock, Texas, he enjoyed success as a crossover artist, and during his early career he wrote for Elvis Presley, ...
– writer *
Josh Krajcik Joshua Andrew Krajcik ( ) is an American singer-songwriter who currently resides in Columbus, Ohio. He began his career as a solo artist and later went on to form the Josh Krajcik Band with Corey Gillen and Mitch Pinkston. He was the runner-up i ...
– writer


Charts and certifications


Weekly charts


Year-end charts


Certifications and sales


Release history


See also

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List of number-one dance singles of 2014 (U.S.) The U.S. Dance Club Songs chart is published weekly by ''Billboard''. It compiles the weeks most popular songs from a sample of reporting DJ's around the country. The first number-one song of 2014 was "Unconditionally" by Katy Perry. With remixe ...


References

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