[5] "I Like Me Better" reached the top ten in Australia, Austria and Germany, the top-twenty in New Zealand and Slovakia, and the top-forty in Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Hungary, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland.

In his native United States, the song was a sleeper hit, spending over six months on the US Billboard Hot 100 before reaching number 27 in September 2018.

[6] After arriving at the studio with "no concept, no lyrics, no idea I was going to write that song" he chopped together a voice memo he left himself intending to change the sound later although he never did.

[7] Musically, "I Like Me Better" is an electropop[8] song that contains elements of Guitar pop, snap and Alt-pop, as well as vocal effects.

A music video of "I Like Me Better" features Lauv himself and Paige Spara as the younger self of the actors Richard Bergman and Michelle Star, respectively.