Imagine Dragons - Wikipedia. Imagine Dragons is an American rock band from Las Vegas, Nevada, consisting of lead vocalist Dan Reynolds, lead guitarist Wayne Sermon, bassist and keyboardist Ben Mc. Kee, and drummer Daniel Platzman.[1] The band first gained exposure in 2.

Night Visions and its first single "It's Time". Billboard placed them at the top of their "Year In Rock" rankings for 2. Breakthrough Band of 2. Rolling Stone named their single "Radioactive" from Night Visions the "biggest rock hit of the year",[1][3][4] and MTV called them "the year's biggest breakout band".[5]Night Visions peaked at number two on the weekly US Billboard 2. UK Albums Chart. The band's second studio album Smoke + Mirrors was released in 2. US, Canada and the UK.[6][7] After touring for their sophomore record, the band took a brief hiatus to focus on their personal lives. During the latter half of 2.

Evolve, released in 2. While all three albums were commercially successful, critical reception was mixed.[8]Imagine Dragons has won two American Music Awards for Favorite Alternative Artist, a Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance, five Billboard Music Awards, and a World Music Award. In May 2. 01. 4, the band was nominated for fourteen Billboard Music Awards, including Top Artist of the Year and a Milestone Award, which recognizes innovation and creativity of artists across different genres. Imagine Dragons have sold 9 million albums and 2. History[edit]Early years: 2. In 2. 00. 8, lead singer Dan Reynolds met drummer Andrew Tolman at Brigham Young University where they were both students.[1. Reynolds and Tolman added Andrew Beck, Dave Lemke, and Aurora Florence to play guitar, bass, and piano respectively for their band.

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Their name is an anagram for a phrase only known to members of the group, that Reynolds stated each member approved of. The five- piece released an extended play titled Speak to Me that same year. Beck and Florence would also depart from the band's lineup that year. Watch The Square Online (2017) there. In 2. 00. 9, Tolman recruited longtime high school friend Wayne Sermon, who had graduated from Berklee College of Music to play guitar.

Tolman later recruited his wife, Brittany Tolman, to sing backup and play keys, and the band began to play shows together again. Lemke left the band later on, leading Sermon to recruit another Berklee music student, Ben Mc. Kee, to join the band as their bassist and complete the lineup.[1.

The band garnered a large following in their hometown of Provo, Utah, before the members moved to Las Vegas, the hometown of Dan Reynolds, where the band recorded and released their first three EPs.[1. The band released EPs titled Imagine Dragons[1. Hell and Silence[1. Battle Born Studios, in Las Vegas. They returned to the studio in 2. The third EP, It's Time, was made before they signed a record deal.[1.

They got their first big break when Train's frontman Pat Monahan fell sick just prior to the Bite of Las Vegas Festival 2. Imagine Dragons were called to fill in and performed to a crowd of more than 2. Local accolades including "Best CD of 2.

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Las Vegas' Newest Must See Live Act" (Las Vegas City. Life),[2. 3] Vegas Music Summit Headliner 2. In November 2. 01. Interscope Records and began working with English Grammy winning producer Alex da Kid.[2. Eventually the Tolmans would leave the group and Daniel Platzman would be recruited in August 2. Ben Mc. Kee, prior to the signing of band's label deal in November 2. Theresa Flaminio.[2.

International success and Night Visions: 2. Theresa Flaminio departed from Imagine Dragons in early 2. The band worked closely with Alex da Kid, with whom they recorded their first major label release at Westlake Recording Studios in West Hollywood, California. Watch Two In The Wave Online there. An EP entitled Continued Silence was released on Valentine's Day (February 1. Billboard 2. 00. The band also released an EP titled Hear Me in 2.

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Shortly after, "It's Time" was released as a single and peaked at number 1. Billboard Hot 1. 00.[2. The music video debuted on April 1. MTV affiliates and was subsequently nominated for an MTV Video Music Award in the "Best Rock Video" category.[2.

It's Time" was certified a double platinum single by the RIAA.[2. The band finished recording their debut album Night Visions in the summer of 2. Studio X inside Palms Casino Resort and released the album in the United States on the day after Labor Day (September 4, 2. It peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard 2.

The album also reached No. Billboard Alternative and Rock Album charts as well as the top ten on the Australian, Austrian, Canadian, Dutch, German, Irish, Norwegian, Portuguese, Scottish, Spanish, and United Kingdom Albums charts. It won a Billboard Music Award for Top Rock Album and was nominated for the Juno Award for International Album of the Year.[3. Night Visions is certified platinum by the RIAA as well as in Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, and the UK. The album produced three tracks that reached the Billboard Top 4.

ARIA Top 4. 0, and five tracks charting in the UK Top 4. The album's second single "Radioactive" reached No.

Billboard Alternative Songs, Billboard Rock Songs, and Swedish singles chart and has sold more than seven million singles in the United States, smashing a record by spending 8. Billboard Hot 1. 00. Radioactive" stayed at No. Hot Rock Songs chart for a record- breaking 2. It peaked at No. 3, becoming their first top ten single in the United States and broke the record for the longest run into the top five.

It is the best- selling rock song on the Nielsen Sound. Scan running list of best- selling rock songs in digital history.[3.

By the end of 2. 01. Radioactive" had already sold over 3 million copies.[3. Rolling Stone called it "the biggest rock hit of the year". It was also the most streamed song of 2.

Spotify in the United States.[3. It was nominated for the Grammy Award for Record of the Year and the Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance at the 5. Annual Grammy Awards, winning the latter of the two.

In 2. 01. 5, it was certified diamond by the RIAA for sales in excess of 1. United States.[3. Third single "Demons" reached No. Billboard Pop Songs and No. Billboard. Hot 1.

United States to date.[2. Billboard listed them as one of "2. Brightest New Stars" and later "The Breakout Band of 2. Imagine Dragons won the 2. Billboard Music Awards for Top Duo/Group, Top Hot 1.

Artist, and Top Rock Artist. Amazon. com called the band their "Favorite Rock artist of 2. In 2. 01. 3, Imagine Dragons returned to Europe and North America with the Night Visions Tour.[4.

The band announced 1. US summer tour dates which also sold out.[4. The band then announced a North America Amphitheatre tour.[4. The band also confirmed that they were unable to fulfill the request of acting as support for Muse.[4. Pollstar listed the band in their Top 2. Concert Tours list by average box office gross despite their average ticket price being the third lowest on the list.[4. The band released a live album, Live at Independent Records, in April 2.

Smoke + Mirrors and hiatus: 2. At Lollapalooza in Sao Paulo, Brazil, the last date on the Into the Night Tour, the band announced a rest, and complemented saying, "This is our last show for a while, and had no better place to end this tour".[4. The conclusion of the Into the Night Tour signaled the end of the Night Visions album cycle. Lead singer Dan Reynolds joked about the end of the Night Visions cycle, saying that "We're always writing on the road, [so] that second album will come, unless we die at the age of 2. Hopefully we don't die and there will be a second album. I don't know when it will be, but it may come".[4.

The idea behind the second studio album, dubbed as their "New Year's resolution",[4. Reynolds told MTV in 2. He further said that "we tend to be perfectionists, too hard on ourselves at times, and we don't want to rush anything because we know how we are with things.