Love Me Harder

"Love Me Harder"
"Love Me Harder"
Single by Ariana Grande and the Weeknd
from the album My Everything
B-side	"Be My Baby"; "Cadillac Song"; "Too Close";
Released	September 30, 2014
Recorded	2014
Studio	Conway Recording Studios, Los Angeles; Wolf Cousins Studio, Stockholm; P.S. Studio, Stockholm; Studio at the Palms, Las Vegas;
Genre	Pop; synthwave; synth-pop; R&B;
Length	3:56
Label	Republic
Songwriter(s)	Max Martin; Savan Kotecha; Peter Svensson; Ali Payami; Abel Tesfaye; Ahmad Balshe;
Producer(s)	Ali Payami; Peter Svensson;
Ariana Grande singles chronology
The Weeknd singles chronology
Music video
	"Love Me Harder" on YouTube

"Love Me Harder" is a song by the American singer Ariana Grande and the Canadian singer-songwriter the Weeknd. It was released by Republic Records on September 30, 2014, as the fourth single from Grande's second studio album, My Everything (2014). It was written by the Weeknd, Max Martin, Savan Kotecha, Peter Svensson, Ali Payami and Belly. The song was produced by Payami and Peter Carlsson, with Svensson serving as a vocal producer. Sonically, "Love Me Harder" is a pop, synthwave, synth-pop, R&B ballad with a "throbbing, electro-heavy chorus", a guitar riff and "big vacuum-esque synths". Lyrically, the song features double entendres about rough sex.

In the United States, the song peaked at number seven on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Grande's fourth consecutive top-ten single off the album and making her the artist with the most top-ten singles in 2014. The song also became the Weeknd's first top ten entry in the US. The Hannah Lux Davis-directed video finds Grande writhing on a sandy floor and the Weeknd walking through a rainstorm. As of 2020, the song had sold 1.3 million copies in the United States, and has since been certified quintiple platinum by the RIAA.