Demons (Imagine Dragons song)

"Demons"
Single by Imagine Dragons
from the album Night Visions
Released	January 28, 2013
Recorded	2011–12
Studio	Westlake Recording Studios (West Hollywood, California)
Genre	Post-Grunge, Pop rock[1]
Length	2:57
Label	KIDinaKORNER Interscope
Songwriter(s)	Alex da Kid Ben McKee Dan Reynolds Wayne Sermon Josh Mosser
Producer(s)	Alex da Kid
Imagine Dragons singles chronology
"Hear Me" (2012) "Demons" (2013) "On Top of the World" (2013)
Music video
"Demons" on YouTube

"Demons" is a song by American pop rock band Imagine Dragons. It was written by Alex da Kid, Ben McKee, Dan Reynolds, Wayne Sermon, Josh Mosser and produced by Alex da Kid. The song appears on their major-label debut extended play, Continued Silence, and also makes an appearance on their debut studio album, Night Visions, as the fourth track. "Demons" was solicited to American triple-A radio stations on January 28, 2013, and to modern rock stations two months later, on April 1, 2013. It serves as the album's overall fifth single and was released as the third single from Night Visions in the United States,^[2][3][4] later released to US contemporary hit radio stations on 17 September 2013 as an official single.^[5] The lyrics portray the protagonist warning the significant other of his or her flaws.

The song was a commercial success, becoming their second top ten single after "Radioactive". It spent twelve weeks in the top ten on the Billboard Hot 100, four of which were spent at its number six peak. It is Imagine Dragons' second song to stay more than one year on the Hot 100 (61 weeks). Within two years of its release, more than 4.1 million copies were sold in the United States, making it the eighth most downloaded song in rock history at the time.^[6] It has also been a moderate commercial success worldwide, charting in several countries. The song won a MuchMusic Video Award for International Video of the Year – Group (2014) and an iHeartRadio Music Award for Alternative Rock Song of the Year (2014).