Later, during an interview for Capital FM, Bieber revealed details about the song, saying: "It's just me and a guitar.
On September 29, 2015, Justin Bieber announced in an interview with Australia's Sunrise morning show that British singer and songwriter Ed Sheeran had written a song for his then-upcoming album.
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Bieber promoted the song with performances on TV shows, as well as awards shows throughout 2015–16, while adding it on the set list of his Purpose World Tour.Įd Sheeran (pictured) initially wrote "Love Yourself" for his album ÷ before giving it to Bieber. It features dancers Keone & Mari Madrid doing an interpretive dance in a house.
The music video for the song was released along with the Purpose: The Movement project on November 14, 2015. It was the seventh-best-selling song of 2016 in the US. "Love Yourself" was nominated for two Grammy Awards: Song of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance. "Love Yourself" topped the charts in fifteen countries, including Australia, Brazil, Canada, New Zealand, and Sweden. On the US Billboard Hot 100 and the UK Singles Chart, the song became Bieber's third consecutive number-one, wherein the United States it spent 24 non-consecutive weeks in the top ten (later named the best-performing single of 2016) and was also Bieber's first number one on the Adult Contemporary chart, while in the United Kingdom it spent six weeks at the top. Lyrically, the song is a kiss-off to a narcissistic ex-lover who did the protagonist wrong. During the song, Bieber uses a husky tone in the lower registers.
A pop song, "Love Yourself" features an acoustic guitar and a brief flurry of trumpets as its main instrumentation. It was written by Ed Sheeran, Benjamin Levin and Bieber, and produced by Levin. The song was released as a promotional single on November 9, 2015, and as the album's third official single on December 7, 2015. " Love Yourself" is a song recorded by Canadian singer Justin Bieber for his fourth studio album Purpose (2015).