“This whole record is about high highs and low lows, and that’s where the name Mercury came from,” says frontman Dan Reynolds in a previously released trailer for Mercury – Act 1. The title draws inspiration from the word “mercurial.” Teaming up with esteemed producer Rick Rubin, Mercury – Act 1 is a candid album that abandons metaphorically charged lyrics and instead embraces emotional extremities, holding nothing back. Septem(Toronto) – Today, GRAMMY®-winning, multi-Platinum band Imagine Dragons unveil their anticipated fifth studio album, Mercury – Act 1, via KIDinaKORNER/Interscope/Universal Music Canada – listen HERE. According to Billboard, they also have the top three rock songs of the 2010s on the US charts, "Believer", "Thunder", and "Radioactive".BAND BECOMES FIRST TO HAVE THREE RIAA-CERTIFIED DIAMOND SINGLES WITH RECENT CERTIFICATION OF “ DEMONS”ĭOWNLOAD IMAGINE DRAGONS PRESS PHOTO HERE 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.
In April 2018, the band was nominated eleven more times for Billboard Music Awards.Imagine Dragons have sold more than 75 million records worldwide, making them one of the world's best-selling music artists. In May 2014, 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 has won three American Music Awards, nine Billboard Music Awards, one Grammy Award, one MTV Video Music Award and one World Music Award. The band released their fifth studio album Mercury – Act 1 on September 3, 2021. While all four albums were commercially successful, critical reception was mixed. The band's fourth studio album Origins (2018) featured the single "Natural", which became their fifth song to top the Hot Rock Songs chart. The album reached the top five in many countries.
This was followed by their third studio album, Evolve (2017) which resulted in three chart-topping singles, "Believer", "Thunder", and "Whatever It Takes", also making them the artist with the most weeks at number-one on the Billboard Hot Rock Songs chart. Imagine Dragons topped the Billboard Year-End "Top Artists – Duo/Group" category in 2018.The band's second studio album Smoke + Mirrors (2015) reached number one in the US, Canada and the UK. and placed them at the top of their "Year in Rock" rankings for 2013, 2017, and 2018. MTV called them "the year's biggest breakout band", and Billboard named them their "Breakthrough Band of 2013" and "Biggest Band of 2017". Rolling Stone named "Radioactive", which held the record for most weeks charted on the Billboard Hot 100, the "biggest rock hit of the year". 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". 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.