Love Is a Drug (Markus Feehily song)

After Westlife split up in June 2012 Markus launched his solo career, in February 2015 he debuted his debut single on RTÉ 2fm in Ireland.[3] The next day the track premiered online, via Wonderland Magazine.[4] Moments after the premiere of the song, it was made available for pre-order on iTunes. In an interview with Digital Spy talking about the song, Markus said "If I ever went to write a Westlife song, you be like, 'Oh let's do this kind of beat' or whatever, and it would just never be a Westlife song if it had that beat. [...] When Westlife finished, the rule book was thrown out of the window in terms of songwriting. I took away all the formulas and just went hell for leather at it. 'Love Is A Drug' is one of the examples of what came out when I did that."[5] It was written by Steve Anderson, Markus Feehliy and Tinashe Fazerkely. Produced by MoJam and Steve Anderson, Mixed by Jeremy Wheatley and strings/choirs arranged by Cliff Masterson.

A music video to accompany the release of "Love Is a Drug" was first released onto YouTube on 4 March 2015 at a total length of three minutes and thirty-nine seconds.[6] The video was directed by Naroop Jhooti.[7]