Believer (Imagine Dragons song)

"Believer"
Single by Imagine Dragons
from the album Evolve
ReleasedFebruary 1, 2017 (2017-02-01)
Recorded2016
Genre
Length3:24
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Mattman & Robin
Imagine Dragons singles chronology
"Levitate"
(2016) 		"Believer"
(2017) 		"Thunder"
(2017)
Music video
"Believer" on YouTube

"Believer" is a song by American pop rock band Imagine Dragons. The song was released on February 1, 2017, through Interscope Records and Kidinakorner as the lead single from the band's third studio album, Evolve (2017).[3] It was written by Dan Reynolds, Wayne Sermon, Ben McKee, Daniel Platzman, Justin Tranter, Jamie marcel and its producers Mattman & Robin.

"Believer" peaked at number four on the US Billboard Hot 100, becoming the band's third top ten single after "Radioactive" and "Demons". It also reached the top ten in Austria, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Italy, Poland, Portugal, and Switzerland. The song received a notable boost in popularity after it was used in the season finale for the first season of the CW's Riverdale. The song was played heavily in advertisements, notably for the Nintendo Switch Super Bowl LI advertisement,[4] and several movie and television trailers.[5][6] It became the fifth best-selling song of 2017 in the United States and one of the best-selling singles of all time.[7] As of November 2022, the song has amassed more than 2.2 billion streams on Spotify as well as 6.1 billion streams on YouTube Music in June 2024.[8] On January 8, 2019, another version of the song was released, featuring American rapper, Lil Wayne.[9] A Halloween mix was released on October 31, 2022, a promo of the song appearing in the October 27, 2022 episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

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  2. ^ Gettell, Oliver (June 1, 2017). "Murder on the Orient Express trailer spoofed with more modern music". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved October 29, 2017.
  3. ^ "Imagine Dragons' Dan Reynolds Reveals Hilarious Album Easter Egg". February 16, 2017. Archived from the original on May 15, 2017. Retrieved March 9, 2017.
  4. ^ Lifton, Dave (2 February 2017). "Nintendo Switch's Super Bowl Ad Uses Imagine Dragons' New Song, 'Believer'". Diffuser.fm. Archived from the original on 2021-09-27. Retrieved 2021-09-27.
  5. ^ "Every Movie Trailer Featuring Imagine Dragons Songs". ScreenCrush. 2 June 2017. Archived from the original on 2020-11-12. Retrieved 2017-10-02.
  6. ^ "All the Places You've Heard That Imagine Dragons Song In the Last Year". ew.com. Archived from the original on 2020-11-12. Retrieved 2017-10-02.
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  8. ^ Believer, 2017-06-23, archived from the original on 2022-06-18, retrieved 2022-11-09
  9. ^ Imagine Dragons - Believer (Audio) ft. Lil Wayne, archived from the original on 2019-12-31, retrieved 2020-01-02