Ep. 168: Dan Reynolds of Imagine Dragons

And The Writer Is...with Ross Golan

And The Writer Is

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🗓️ 12 December 2022

⏱️ 84 minutes

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With over 66 million album equivalents, and 55 million digital songs sold, not to mention over 110 billion combined streams, today guest is the singer of a GRAMMY® Award-winning, multi-Platinum rock band. The group developed a grassroots following with a series of independent EPs before making their major-label debut on KIDinaKORNER/Interscope with 2012’s Continued Silence EP and full-length debut NIGHT VISIONS, which entered the Billboard 200 at No. 2, while lead track “Radioactive” topped Billboard’s Hot Rock Songs, won a GRAMMY® for Best Rock Performance, and achieved RIAA Diamond status. After achieving their first #1 with “Radioactive,” the band immediately repeated this feat with “Demons,” marking the first back-to-back #1’s for the band, with both songs in the Top 5 simultaneously. 2015’s platinum selling Smoke + Mirrors debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.The 3x platinum selling album EVOLVE followed in 2017, earning a GRAMMY® nomination for Best Pop Vocal Album and unleashing three No. 1 Alternative radio hits: “Believer,” GRAMMY®-nominated “Thunder,” and “Whatever It Takes.” All three songs were also top 5 hits at Alternative radio. “Believer” was the quickest song to reach #1 for them. The band’s fourth album and platinum selling, ORIGINS, debuted atop Billboard’s Top Alternative Albums and Top Rock Albums charts, while its lead single “Natural” spent nine weeks at No. 1 at Alternative Radio. It was recently announced that their smash single “Thunder” received Diamond certification by the RIAA. With the certification of “Thunder,” Imagine Dragons have notably become the first group in music history to achieve four Diamond singles. For their fifth studio album, the band teamed up with esteemed producer Rick Rubin. 2021’s Mercury — Act 1 debuted in the Billboard 200 top 10. In 2022, they expanded the world of Mercury with a double album, Mercury – Acts 1 & 2, including the single “Bones,” which has gathered over 380 million streams to date and the accompanying music video.

And The Writer Is… Dan Reynolds of Imagine Dragons!

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0:00.0	Welcome to And The Writer Is with Ross Golan.
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0:39.3	Hey, what's up?
0:49.1	It's Paige McDonald, and this is your weekly music industry update.
0:53.8	Willie Woodmax, Christine McVee, has sadly passed away at the age of 79.
0:59.7	In 2021, Bad Bunny was the world's biggest artist on Spotify with 9 billion streams.
1:04.9	This year he doubled that tally with 18.5 billion streams, making him the services biggest
1:10.2	global artists for the third year in a row.
1:14.2	Music audio streams in the U.S. just crossed the one trillion mark for the first time ever
1:18.6	in a single year.
1:21.4	Voice streaming startup Logcast has announced a new integration with Spotify's app that
1:25.9	it says aims to provide artists with a new way to earn money from content on the platform.
1:31.9	Warner Chapel Music has struck a partnership with Web 3 Entertainment Company Defiant.
1:38.5	Universal Music Group has acquired a minority stake in the Independent Music Company PIS
1:43.1	for an undisclosed amount.
1:46.1	Global recorded music body IFPI has launched the official ME&H chart, which it calls the
1:51.0	first ever official chart in the Middle East and North Africa.
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