Shawn Mendes – Treat You Better

“Treat You Better” – Single by Shawn Mendes from the album Illuminate. Released on June 3, 2016. Songwriters: Mendes, Teddy Geiger and Scott Harris.

“Treat You Better” peaked at number six on the US Billboard Hot 100, becoming his second top ten on the chart. Elsewhere, the song has topped charts in Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia, and peaked within the top ten of the record charts in Canada, the United Kingdom and other 18 countries.

Shawn gave the first TV performance of the song at the iHeartRadio MuchMusic Video Awards in Toronto, Canada on June 19, 2016.

The music video was released on July 12, 2016. It features a plot revolving around a situation of violence between couples. The video shows a girl being abused by her boyfriend in various situations, while Mendes hopes to be with her and struggles to understand why she prefers to be in that relationship. The video ends displaying the number for the National Domestic Violence Hotline. The music video also stars Devon Aoki’s half sister Ellie Stuart Hunter  played with a guitar, drums and tambourines.

The video has received over 2.3 billion YouTube views as of late August 2023 and is one of the site’s 60 most-watched videos.

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