"Combining EDM and dubstep and five rock instruments was weird. With the addition of Wayne Sermon's guitar parts, Ben McKee's bass and Daniel Platzman's drums, the song became, "More and more strange," laughs Reynolds. "Radioactive" was one of the first songs they wrote, with Reynolds writing the lyrics and melodies and Alex da Kid creating the dubstep beat. Would you like to come in and do some songwriting sessions?'" We played at the Viper Room and Alex da Kid 's assistant attended our show, bought our EP and gave it to Alex. She was the singer of a band called Nico Vega who were signed to MySpace. "My wife and I were both struggling musicians. with my wife and first child," recalls Reynolds. "My first memories of 'Radioactive' are me living in a studio apartment at the Villa Carlotta in L.A. "Radioactive" won Best Rock Performance at the 56th GRAMMYs, where it was also nominated for Record Of The Year (and where the group performed the song with Kendrick Lamar ). It also gave Imagine Dragons another big first: their first GRAMMY. 3-peaking "Radioactive" was the band's first top 5 single. Imagine Dragons' highest-charting single on the Hot 100, the No. It paved the way for 'Radioactive' and is still, to this day, one of my favorite songs." "Radioactive" - Night Visions, 2012 It took us from obscurity into alternative radio. "There is something about the youthfulness of that song. "We added the group's stomps and claps, but we kept the slaps and claps I had done in the dorm room," he says. "The stomp clap is me hitting my desk."Īfter moving back to his hometown of Las Vegas, Reynolds recorded the song with the rest of the band at The Studio at the Palms. "I wrote 'It's Time' in my dorm room the week I was dropping out of college to pursue music," he recalls. For Reynolds, "It's Time" serves as perhaps the most full-circle song in their catalog. Ten years later, it's still the song with which Imagine Dragons open the majority of their live shows.
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The major-label debut single from Imagine Dragons cracked the Top 20 on the Billboard Hot 100, also finding its way onto multiple screens thanks to Gossip Girl, Perks of Being a Wallflower and Glee. (They had to cancel shows in Ukraine and Russia due to the countries' ongoing conflict, but Imagine Dragons showed their support for Ukraine by becoming ambassadors for United24, the organization launched by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that collects charitable donations for his country.)ĭuring a brief break from performing, Reynolds reminisced with about some of his group's most recognizable hits to date. The group kicked off their 72-date Mercury World Tour in Miami in February, and they return to North America on Aug. Luckily for Imagine Dragons and their fans, plenty of songs have emerged from Reynolds' daily songwriting - and it's taken him and his band around the world. "I have thousands and thousands of recorded songs with lyrics and melody that never saw the light of day." "I started writing when I was 12, and I have recorded a song almost every day since then," Reynolds tells. While the band has only been active in the mainstream for a decade, 35-year-old Reynolds is going on 25 years of making music. Combined, the group's streams top 100 billion, thanks to other hits like "Whatever It Takes" and "Enemy." The latter track is part of the group's sixth LP (and first compilation album), Mercury - Acts 1 & 2, and became their latest top 5 single on the Billboard Hot 100 - proving that they're not done making hits.īehind each one of Imagine Dragons' songs is frontman Dan Reynolds, the group's principal songwriter. Four of the hitmaking group's singles - "Radioactive," "Believer," "Demons," and "Thunder" - each have more than a billion views on YouTube and a billion streams on Spotify.Ĭlearly those aren't the only songs that have made Imagine Dragons one of the most commercially successful rock bands of the 2010s. Since Imagine Dragons debuted 10 years ago, billion has become their default number.
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