Imagine Dragons is 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. In 2008, lead singer Dan Reynolds met drummer Andrew Tolman at Brigham Young University, where they were both students. Reynolds and Tolman recruited Andrew Beck, Dave Lemke, and Aurora Florence to play guitar, bass, and piano respectively for their band.
Four – Believer: On February 1, 2017, Imagine Dragons released “Believer” as the lead single for their next album. The music video garnered over 2.2B views on YouTube. “Believer” was used as part of a Super Bowl ad for the Nintendo Switch. It’s also a popular sound used on the famous Tiktok app.
Three – Thunder: The official music video garnered 1.8B views on YouTube. It was released by Interscope Records and Kidinakorner on April 27, 2017, as the second single from their third studio album, Evolve (2017). Written by band members Dan Reynolds, Wayne Sermon, Ben McKee, Daniel Platzman, and its producers Alex Da Kid and Jayson DeZuzio, “Thunder” peaked at number four on the US Billboard Hot 100. It also reached the top 10 in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden. The song was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance. It won the 2019 BMI Pop Awards for Award Winning Songs.
Current members
- Dan Reynolds – lead vocals, guitars, piano, keyboards, bass, drums, percussion (2008–present)
- Wayne Sermon – guitars, backing vocals, mandolin, drums, percussion, piano, synthesizers (2009–present)
- Ben McKee – bass, piano, keyboards, synthesizers, backing vocals, guitars, drums, percussion (2009–present)
- Daniel Platzman – drums, percussion, backing vocals, guitars, viola, keyboards (2011–present)
Awards: The band is the recipient of a Grammy Award, three American Music Awards, ten Billboard Music Awards, eight BMI Pop Music Awards, an Echo Award, a MTV Video Music Award, five Teen Choice Awards and a World Music Award. The band has a total of 52 wins and 157 nominations.
- “Radioactive” won the Grammy award for Beat Rock Performance, the Teen Choice Award for Choice Music – Rock Song, the Billboard Music Award for Top Streaming Song (Audio)
- In 2018, Imagine Dragons won Band of the Year at the Alt Rock Awards
- “Believer” won the 2018 Billboard Music Awards for Top Rock song also for the BMI Pop Awards for Award Winning Songs in 2018
- “Thunder” won the 2019 BMI Pop Awards for Award Winning Songs
- The song “Demons” won a MuchMusic Video Award for International Video of the Year – Group (2014) and an iHeartRadio Music Award for Alternative Rock Song of the Year (2014)
Bonus – Demons: The official music video garnered over 1B views on YouTube. It was written by Alex da Kid, Ben McKee, Dan Reynolds, Wayne Sermon, Josh Mosser and produced by Alex da Kid. It was officially released on the 17th of September 2013 as an official single of the album “Night Visions”. It spent twelve weeks in the top ten on the Billboard Hot 100, four of which were spent at its number six peak. The song won a MuchMusic Video Award for International Video of the Year – Group (2014) and an iHeartRadio Music Award for Alternative Rock Song of the Year (2014)
Discography
- Night Visions (2012)
- Smoke + Mirrors (2015)
- Evolve (2017)
- Origins (2018)
- Mercury – Act 1 (2021)
- Mercury – Act 2 (2022)
Two – Enemy: The official music video garnered over 236M views on YouTube and It was released through Interscope Records and Kidinakorner on October 28, 2021, from the soundtrack of the animated streaming television series Arcane. The song was written by the artists alongside Justin Tranter and the producers Mattman & Robin. became the band’s first song to reach the Top 5 since 2017’s Thunder
One – Radioactive: Off their studio album “Night Visions” the official music video garnered over 1.3B views on YouTube. It was released in the year 2013. Rolling Stone named “Radioactive”, which held the record for most weeks charted on the Billboard Hot 100, the “biggest rock hit of the year”. It was nominated for the Grammy Award for Record of the Year and the Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards, winning the latter of the two.
