Lemke left the band later on, leading Sermon to recruit another Berklee music student, Ben McKee, to join the band as their bassist and complete the line-up. Tolman later recruited his wife, Brittany Tolman, to sing back-up and play keys, and the band began to play shows together again. In 2009, Tolman recruited long-time high school friend Wayne Sermon, who had graduated from Berklee College of Music to play guitar. The five-piece released an extended play titled Speak to Me that year, but Beck and Florence departed from the band's line-up later that year. Their name is an anagram for a phrase only known to members of the group, that Reynolds stated each member approved of. Reynolds and Tolman recruited Andrew Beck, Dave Lemke, and Aurora Florence to play guitar, bass, and piano respectively for their band. In 2008, lead singer Dan Reynolds met drummer Andrew Tolman at Brigham Young University, where they were both students. According to Billboard, they also have the top three rock songs of the 2010s on the US charts, "Believer", "Thunder", and "Radioactive". 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.
Imagine Dragons have sold more than 75 million records worldwide. In April 2018, the band was nominated eleven more times for Billboard Music Awards. 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. The band's second studio album Smoke + Mirrors (2015) reached number one in the US, Canada and the UK.
Imagine Dragons topped the Billboard Year-End "Top Artists – Duo/Group" category in 2018.
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.
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