Imagine Dragons are an American pop rock band from Las Vegas, Nevada, consisting of lead singer Dan Reynolds, guitarist Wayne Sermon, bassist Ben McKee and drummer Daniel Platzman. The band first gained exposure with the release of their single “It’s Time”, followed by their award-winning debut studio album Night Visions (2012), which resulted in the chart-topping singles “Radioactive” and “Demons”. Rolling Stone named “Radioactive”, which held the record for most weeks charted on the Billboard Hot 100, the “biggest rock hit of the year”. MTV called them “the year’s biggest breakout band” and Billboard named them their “Breakthrough Band of 2013” and “Biggest Band of 2017” and placed them at the top of their “Year in Rock” rankings for 2013, 2017 and 2018.
Imagine Dragons has sold more than 75 million records worldwide, making them one of the world’s best-selling music artists. They were the most streamed group of 2018 on Spotify and are the first rock act to have four songs, “Radioactive”, “Demons”, “Believer”, and “Thunder”, to surpass one billion streams each. According to Billboard, “Believer”, “Thunder”, and “Radioactive” were the three best performing rock songs of the 2010s.
