Song · Imagine Dragons
“Believer” by Imagine Dragons
From the album Evolve (2017)
“Believer” by Imagine Dragons appears on 19 radio countdowns from 15 stations between 2017 and 2026. It was first released in 2017 on the album Evolve. Its best result is #1 on The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2017, and it was voted number one on two countdowns in total. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #4 alternative song of 2017, #3,000 alternative song of all time and #114 of the '10s.
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"Believer" launched Imagine Dragons' third album, Evolve, as its lead single in 2017, and it hits like a medicine ball to the chest: a stomping pop-rock anthem built for arenas and, as it turned out, for advertising. Mattman & Robin produced it and wrote it with the band and Justin Tranter, and John Hanes mixed it.
Its video put singer Dan Reynolds in a boxing match against Dolph Lundgren, the first music video Lundgren ever appeared in. The song went everywhere that year, from the Nintendo Switch Super Bowl LI ad to a pile of film and TV trailers, reached No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 and spent 29 weeks on top of the Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart. By the end of 2017, only four songs had outsold it in America.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 2 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 2017 | 91 |
| 2017 | 1 | The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC | The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2017 | 99 |
| 2017 | 1 | X96 Salt Lake City, UT | X96 Top 50 Songs of 2017 | 50 |
| 2017 | 11 | 88.3 The Sting Cleveland, OH | 88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 88 Songs of 2017 | 88 |
| 2017 | 57 | 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) | WEQX Top 102.7 of 2017 | 103 |
| 2017 | 6 | 92.3 WTTS Indianapolis-Bloomington, IN | WTTS Top 50 Songs of 2017 | 50 |
| 2018 | 22 | ALT 104.5 Philadelphia, PA | Radio 104.5 Top 50.5 Songs of 2018 | 51 |
| 2020 | 68 | CD101 Columbus, OH | CD101 Top 93 Songs of 2020 | 93 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 13 | 93X | 93X Top 93 Songs of the Decade (2010s) | 93 |
| 2019 | 16 | ALT 98.7 | ALT 98.7 Top 98 ALT Songs of the Decade | 98 |
| 2019 | 88 | ALT 98.7 | ALT 98.7 Top 98 ALT Songs of the Decade | 98 |
| 2019 | 18 | 103.3 The Edge | 103.3 The Edge Top 103.3 Songs of the Decade | 103 |
| 2019 | 228 | 94.3 WCYY | WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2019) | 500 |
| 2020 | 50 | 107.7 The End | The End Top 107 Songs of Last Decade (2010s) | 107 |
| 2020 | 4 | The Buzz | The Buzz Top 99 Songs of the Decade | 99 |
| 2020 | 8 | X96 | X96's Top 100 Songs of the Last Decade | 100 |
| 2020 | 246 | DC101 | The DC101 Top 500 | 500 |
| 2022 | 442 | X96 | X96 Top 500 Alternative Songs of All Time | 500 |
| 2022 | 221 | 101X | 101X 500 (2022) | 498 |
| 2026 | 244 | 101X | 101X 500 (2026) | 500 |
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