Imagine Dragons

With over 66 million album equivalents and 55 million digital songs sold, not to mention over 110 billion combined streams, Imagine Dragons are one of rock’s biggest bands of the past decade, with huge releases including “Believer,” “Thunder,” and “Radioactive.” 

Formed in 2009, they developed a grassroots following with a series of independent EPs. They released their first album, Night Visions, in 2012. The album's single "It's Time" became their first Top 40 hit, reaching the Top 10 in March 2013. Their follow-up tracks, "Radioactive" and "Demons" were multi-format hits. The band won a Grammy for Best Rock Performance for "Radioactive". Night Visions is now 7x platinum in the U.S. alone. 

Their next album was 2015’s platinum-selling Smoke + Mirrors. The 3x platinum-selling album Evolve followed in 2017, earning a Grammy nomination for Best Pop Vocal Album and unleashing three No. 1 Alternative radio hits: “Believer,” Grammy-nominated “Thunder,” and “Whatever It Takes.” All three songs were also top 5 hits at Alternative radio. The band’s fourth album was the platinum-selling, Origins.

For their fifth studio album, the band teamed up with producer Rick Rubin. 2021’s Mercury — Act 1 launched the singles “Wrecked,” “Cutthroat,” and “Follow You". Then came “Enemy.” Originally released as the theme to Netflix’s Arcane, the hit racked up more than 4.6 billion combined global streams across two versions (including a collaboration with Grammy-nominated, Atlanta-based rapper J.I.D), helping make Imagine Dragons the highest streaming American band in the US in 2021. 

In 2022, they released a double album, Mercury – Acts 1 & 2, including the single “Bones,” which has gathered over 380 million streams to date, and the accompanying music video has scored 38 million-plus YouTube views. Sorting through personal loss and the biggest existential questions of their career, singer/songwriter Dan Reynolds says the two-part release is about learning to “accept the unknown” and “let go,” healing feelings.

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