Mike Posner

Mike Posner started his career in 2008. As a record producer, he worked on some tracks with his hometown friend Big Sean. Posner composed and featured on Big Sean’s first mixtape on the song, titled “Yagum”. In 2009, Posner’s second mixtape, A Matter of Time (the first mixtape being Reflections of a Lost Teen) started attracting industry attention. 

Posner’s third mixtape One Foot Out the Door was liberated in October 2009. In August 2010, Posner’s debut album, 31 Minutes to Takeoff was released. On October 7, 2011, RCA Music Group announced it was dissolving J Records along with Arista Records and Jive Records. 

After the release of his debut album, he started working on his second studio album under the title Sky High and released the single “Looks Like Sex” to digital outlets on December 2, 2011. He took a break from composing music to write and produce songs for other artists. Posner later announced via Twitter that his next forthcoming album would be titled Pages and would be released in early June or late Summer 2013.

Career From 2013

On June 11, 2013, his single “The Way It Used To Be” premiered on digital outlets. It was announced that he had filmed a music video for his new single “Top of the World” in September 2013, which would appear on his upcoming Page 1 EP, set for release in October. Posner announced his Unplugged tour on March 4, 2014.

Mike Posner released a stripped-down single, “I Took a Pill in Ibiza”, on his Vevo account on April 15, 2015. Then, on March 17, 2016, Posner declared his second album, At Night, Alone., which was released on May 6, 2016, and featured both originals and remixes of “I Took a Pill in Ibiza” and “Be As You Are”.

Furthermore, Posner announced that the third single from the album would be a remix by American electronic duo Grey of Posner’s song “In the Arms of a Stranger” on February 17, 2017. On January 22, 2018, Posner announced a poetry album entitled I was born in Detroit on a very, very, very, very, very, very, very cold day, which was declared on January 26, 2018.

Moreover, Mike Posner released “Song About You”, the lead single from his third studio album, A Real Good Kid in September 2018. In 2019, Posner was bitten by a rattlesnake while he was in a walk and was hospitalized in Colorado, delaying the walk for “quite a few weeks”.

Mike Posner: Awards, Nominations

In 2010, he was nominated for American Music Awards and MTV Europe Music Awards for Best Push Act. He won the 2011 ASCAP Pop Music Awards for Most Performed Song. In 2016, he was nominated for MTV Video Music Award for Best Electronic Video and Best Song. Posner won the City Of Hope’s 12th Annual Songs Of Hope in 2016 for the Pandora Trendsetter Award.

Similarly, Mike Posner was nominated for The 59th Annual Grammy Awards and iHeartRadio Music Awards for Song of the Year, Dance of the year, and Best Music Video in 2017. In 2017, he won the 2017 ASCAP Pop Music Awards for Most Performed Song.