Imagine Dragons

Imagine Dragons broke internationally with “Radioactive,” a single that held the record for the most weeks charted on the Billboard Hot 100 and was named by Rolling Stone as the biggest rock hit of the year. Formed in 2008 and based in Las Vegas, the American pop rock band is led by singer Dan Reynolds, with Wayne Sermon on guitar and Ben McKee on bass. Their early lineup also included drummer Daniel Platzman, whose departure made 2024’s Loom the group’s first album without its longtime drummer.

Their February 2012 debut single, “It’s Time,” reached the Top 20 on charts in several countries. That September, the debut album Night Visions entered at No. 2 in the United States and went Platinum by June 2013. Alongside “Radioactive,” its single “Demons” became a major hit. MTV called Imagine Dragons the year’s biggest breakout band, while Billboard named them its Breakthrough Band of 2013 and later its Biggest Band of 2017. Billboard also placed the group atop its Year in Rock rankings in 2013, 2017, and 2018.

Smoke + Mirrors, released in 2015, reached No. 1 in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. The 2017 follow-up Evolve produced the chart-topping singles “Believer,” “Thunder,” and “Whatever It Takes,” and helped make Imagine Dragons the artist with the most weeks at No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Rock Songs chart. Origins followed in 2018, led by “Natural,” the band’s fifth song to top that chart. In the same year, Imagine Dragons led Billboard’s year-end Top Artists, Duo/Group category.

The double album Mercury – Acts 1 & 2 arrived in 2022 and included the US top-five hit “Enemy.” Loom followed in 2024. The band’s commercial record includes more than 74 million albums and 65 million digital songs sold worldwide, as well as 160 billion streams across music platforms. They were the first rock act with four songs, “Radioactive,” “Demons,” “Believer,” and “Thunder,” to pass one billion streams each, and the only group in RIAA history with four songs certified higher than Diamond. Billboard named “Believer,” “Thunder,” and “Radioactive” the three best-performing rock songs of the 2010s. Imagine Dragons have won three American Music Awards, nine Billboard Music Awards, a Grammy Award, an MTV Video Music Award, and a World Music Award, while their music has also received mixed critical reception.