IMAGINE DRAGONS @ Fiserv Forum – Milwaukee, WI

February 25, 2022

BAND MEMBERS:
Dan Reynolds – Vocals
Wayne Sermon – Guitar
Ben McKee – Bass Guitar
Daniel Platzman – Drums

Website: www.ImagineDragonsMusic.com

Milwaukee was lit Friday night for the highly-anticipated return of pop rock sensation Imagine Dragons since their last performance downtown at the “World’s Largest Music Festival” Summerfest in 2018. Touring in support of their 2022 Mercury Tour, the Las Vegas rockers performed to a sold-out crowd of concert-goers on Milwaukee’s biggest stage and held absolutely nothing back in an effort to uplift and inspire those in attendance with their unique and artful blend of rock, hip-hop, pop and folk music.

With 46 million albums and 55 million songs sold globally, as well as 74 billion combined streams, Imagine Dragons remains one of the best-selling rock bands, reinventing the genre with their enormous breakout success across the 2010s. Billboard’s Top 3 rock songs of the decade belonged to the band – “Believer,” “Thunder” and “Radioactive.”

Formed in 2009, Imagine Dragons developed a grassroots following with a series of independently released EPs before making their major label debut on KIDinaKORNER/Interscope with the 2012 EP Continued Silence. Night Visions, their 2012 full-length debut, entered the Billboard 200 at No. 2 and the lead-off track “Radioactive” topped Billboard’s Hot Rock Songs chart, won a Grammy for Best Rock Performance, and achieved RIAA Diamond status. 2015’s Smoke + Mirrors debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.

Evolve, which followed in 2017, earned a Grammy nomination for Best Pop Vocal Album and unleashed three No. 1 Alternative radio hits: “Believer,” the Grammy-nominated “Thunder” and “Whatever It Takes.” All three songs were also top 5 hits at Top 40 radio, with “Thunder” rising to the No. 1 spot. The band’s fourth album, Origins, debuted atop Billboard’s Alternative Albums and Top Rock Albums charts and lead single “Natural” spent nine weeks at No. 1 at alternative radio and set the current record for all-time “most spins in a week” at the format.

Their highly anticipated fifth studio album Mercury – Act 1 was released on September 3, 2021. Teaming up with esteemed producer Rick Rubin and with its title drawing inspiration from the word “mercurial,” Mercury – Act 1 is a candid album that abandons metaphorically charged lyrics and instead embraces emotional extremities, holding nothing back. It marks the band’s first album since 2018’s Origins.

“Follow You” and “Cutthroat” were the first glimpses into the new record, released simultaneously in March 2021, with the former hitting No. 1 at alternative radio and Billboard’s Alternative Airplay chart, marking the band’s quickest ascent to the top of those charts. The album’s current single, “Wrecked,” is a confessional exploration of grief, written by lead vocalist Dan Reynolds after losing his sister-in-law to cancer in 2019.

SETLIST:
My Life
Believer
Polaroid / Hopeless Opus
It’s Time
Thunder
Amsterdam
Shots
Birds
Follow You
Lonely
Wrecked
Natural

ACOUSTIC
Next to Me
I Bet My Life
Three Little Birds (Bob Marley & The Wailers cover)
One Day
Whatever It Takes
It’s Ok
Demons
Enemy
Bad Liar
Radioactive
The Fall (>)
Walking the Wire (> “My Life” reprise)

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