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Imagine Dragons

Rising from the Nevada desert in the late 2000s, Imagine Dragons perform with an energetic blend of arena rock energy and catchy pop choruses that has led them to global success. Winning their first Grammy Award in 2014 for the diamond-certified smash "Radioactive" from their debut album Night Visions, Imagine Dragons remained near the top of the charts for much of the 2010s, topping the Billboard 200 with 2015's Smoke + Mirrors. As their percussion-heavy sound shifted more toward radio-friendly, stadium-ready anthems, they secured worldwide favor with 2017's Grammy-nominated Evolve, which delivered a trio of multi-platinum singles in "Believer," "Thunder," and "Whatever It Takes." Heading into the next decade, the band continued to mature with the <a href="spotify:artist:1EpmQFTiJbcxzwbLpuUL8L">Rick Rubin</a>-produced Mercury: Act 1 and its sibling set Mercury: Act 2. Their seventh album Loom pushed them into fresh new genres in 2024. The Las Vegas-based group had its genesis in Provo, Utah, where vocalist <a href="spotify:artist:3k3gbUT7bF0jYmFmAKBQtU">Dan Reynolds</a> met drummer Andrew Tolman while the two attended Brigham Young University. In 2009, the group -- which by this time included guitarist Daniel Wayne Sermon, bass player Ben McKee, and Tolman's wife, Brittany Tolman, on keys and backing vocals -- had made a name for themselves regionally and relocated to <a href="spotify:artist:3k3gbUT7bF0jYmFmAKBQtU">Reynolds</a>' hometown of Las Vegas to record a pair of well-received EPs (Imagine Dragons and Hell and Silence) at <a href="spotify:artist:0C0XlULifJtAgn6ZNCW2eu">the Killers</a>' Battle Born Studios. A third EP, It's Time, arrived the following year and helped land the group a record deal with <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Interscope%22">Interscope</a>. The Tolmans parted ways with the band prior to the <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Interscope%22">Interscope</a> deal, and Daniel Platzman took over on drums. In 2012, Imagine Dragons hit it big with the Continued Silence EP and their first long-player, Night Visions, the latter of which debuted at the number two spot on the Billboard 200 and landed the group multiple awards -- it later went double platinum in the U.S., largely on the smash success of the Grammy-winning hit "Radioactive," which became the biggest-ever digital rock track in America. During 2013, two other hits followed: "Demons" in the U.S. and "On Top of the World" elsewhere. The group spent the bulk of 2014 finishing their second album. Co-produced by <a href="spotify:artist:0vjlH9sbJOZyhDjhvajQpY">Alex da Kid</a>, Smoke + Mirrors arrived in February 2015 and debuted at number one, buoyed by the singles "I Bet My Life" and "Shots." The band toured often between June 2015 and February 2016, eventually releasing the concert set Smoke + Mirrors Live, recorded in 2015 at a sold-out Air Canada Centre in Toronto. They took a well-deserved break in 2016, making only a few sporadic forays into the studio to record three songs for soundtracks: "Not Today" for Me Before You, "Sucker for Pain" for Suicide Squad, and "Levitate" for Passengers. Imagine Dragons also recorded songs for their third proper album, releasing the lead single "Believer" in January 2017. The set, entitled Evolve, was released that June. As the name suggested, it saw the band continuing to change, emphasizing EDM-flavored pop and positive attitudes that translated to the hit singles "Whatever It Takes" and "Thunder." In early 2018, the band teamed up with R&B singer <a href="spotify:artist:6LuN9FCkKOj5PcnpouEgny">Khalid</a> for a mashup of their respective hits "Thunder" and "Young Dumb & Broke." That summer, they released "Natural," which was the first single from their fourth album, Origins. Arriving in November 2018, Origins found the band working again with Jayson DeZuzio and <a href="spotify:artist:0vjlH9sbJOZyhDjhvajQpY">Alex Da Kid</a>, along with a host of newer producers. While the set did not fare as well as its three predecessors, it nonetheless spawned additional international hit singles such as "Bad Liar" and the <a href="spotify:artist:23fqKkggKUBHNkbKtXEls4">Kygo</a> collaboration "Born to Be Yours." In March 2021, the group issued a pair of singles, "Follow You" b/w "Cutthroat," from their fifth album, Mercury: Act 1. Produced by <a href="spotify:artist:1EpmQFTiJbcxzwbLpuUL8L">Rick Rubin</a> and Joel Little, the set revealed more maturity and vulnerability from <a href="spotify:artist:3k3gbUT7bF0jYmFmAKBQtU">Reynolds</a>, and tackled mental health, death, loss, and relationship struggles. Released in September, it was another success for the band, giving them their fifth consecutive Top Ten. Before the release of the planned Act 2, the band scored another radio hit with "Enemy," a collaboration with rapper <a href="spotify:artist:6U3ybJ9UHNKEdsH7ktGBZ7">JID</a> from the soundtrack to the animated series Arcane. In early 2022, Imagine Dragons issued "Bones," the lead single from Mercury: Act 2, which landed that July. Packaged with Act 1 under the official title Mercury: Acts 1 & 2, the sequel album also included the single "Sharks" and a collaboration with <a href="spotify:artist:21SOnTj5ECwVXeBUTRcP3s">Cory Henry</a>, "Continual." Enjoying much needed rest, the band took a break in 2023, only releasing Live in Vegas and the song "Children of the Sky" as part of the roll-out for the video game Starfield. The group's next album cycle kicked off in April 2024 with the single, "Eyes Closed," which landed on their seventh full-length studio album, Loom. While the single pushed their trademark anthemic, percussion-heavy sound, "Nice to Meet You" revealed a new side of the band with its pop-funk dancefloor energy. ~ James Christopher Monger, Rovi

The Weeknd

The Weeknd is the alias of alternative R&B enigma-turned-pop star Abel Tesfaye, whose aching accounts of emotionally and physically toxic indulgences have translated to multi-platinum sales and Grammy recognition. The singer and songwriter made his early-2010s breakthrough with morose ballads that seemed to have no designs on mainstream appeal. Within a few years, however, Tesfaye had scored Top Ten hits with an Ariana Grande duet ("Love Me Harder"), the lead single from a major motion picture ("Earned It"), and a retro-contemporary disco-funk single ("I Can't Feel My Face"), the last of which was nominated for a Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Award despite its subject (cocaine). Tesfaye received early support from Drake and scored his first Top Ten R&B/hip-hop placement as the featured artist on the fellow Torontonian's "Crew Love," but he swiftly outgrew his status as a Drake affiliate with his own hits and a streak of appearances on high-profile tracks by Wiz Khalifa, Future, Beyoncé, and Lana Del Rey. Tesfaye debuted the Weeknd in late 2010 with three songs uploaded to YouTube. Made with producer Jeremy Rose, they served as a low-key prelude to three mixtapes self-released as free digital downloads the following year. First was with House of Balloons (March), where clear traces of radio-friendly contemporary R&B à la Trey Songz, Jeremih, the-Dream, and Drake were synthesized with the progressive left-of-center likes of Spacek and Sa-Ra. Recorded in collaboration with producers Doc McKinney and Illangelo, among others, the set garnered widespread coverage within days of its release. A similar second mixtape, Thursday (August), preceded several appearances on Drake's album Take Care. Featuring a cover of Michael Jackson's "Dirty Diana," Echoes of Silence (December) completed the trilogy just before the end of the year. The following June, "Crew Love," off Take Care, reached the Top Ten of Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop chart. A few months later, Tesfaye was featured on another charting single, Wiz Khalifa's "Remember You." After Tesfaye signed with Universal Republic, the three Weeknd mixtapes were remastered and bundled with three new songs for Trilogy, issued in November 2012. Despite consisting of material previously available for free, the set debuted at number four on the Billboard 200 chart. The following April, Tesfaye won Juno Awards in the categories of Breakthrough Artist of the Year and R&B/Soul Recording of the Year. Trilogy was certified platinum by the RIAA the next month. Kiss Land, much darker in tone than its title implied, followed in September 2013 and debuted at number two. Out of its several singles, only "Live For," featuring Drake, touched the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop chart. Tesfaye had much more success with a series of non-album singles that followed. "Often," released in 2014, was a Top Ten R&B/Hip-Hop hit. He was featured on Ariana Grande's "Love Me Harder," which reached the Top Ten of the Hot 100 and went platinum in the U.S. "Earned It," featured in Fifty Shades of Grey, repeated the same feats. In 2015, Tesfaye issued "The Hills," a booming, nightmarish ballad co-produced by Illangelo, and "Can't Feel My Face," an upbeat Max Martin collaboration, as the first two singles from Beauty Behind the Madness. Both songs topped the Hot 100. The album was issued that August and debuted at the same position. At the 58th Annual Grammy Awards, it won in the category of Best Urban Contemporary Album, while "Earned It" received the nod for Best R&B Performance. Through the end of 2015 and into 2016, Tesfaye was featured on Disclosure's "In the Night," Kanye West's "FML," Future's "Low Life," and Beyoncé's "6 Inch." "Starboy," produced by Daft Punk, was released in September 2016 as the lead single from Tesfaye's album of the same title. It became the singer's fifth Top Ten pop single prior to the November arrival of Starboy, which landed on top of the Billboard 200. The album's success was sustained with the second single, its other Daft Punk production, "I Feel It Coming." Appearances on singles by Nav, Lana Del Rey, and French Montana were scattered through 2017. The following year saw the Weeknd appear on the track "Pray for Me," with Kendrick Lamar -- one of the lead singles from the official soundtrack for Marvel's Black Panther movie. In March of 2018 he dropped a surprise EP titled My Dear Melancholy,. The release marked a return to the darker sound and aesthetic of Trilogy and featured contributions from Gesaffelstein, Skrillex, and Mike WiLL Made-It. ~ Andy Kellman