Thunder (Imagine Dragons song)

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"Thunder" is a song by American rock band Imagine Dragons. The song was released by Interscope Records and Kidinakorner on April 27, 2017, as the second single from their third studio album, Evolve (2017). It was written by Dan Reynolds, Wayne Sermon, Ben McKee, Daniel Platzman and its producers Alexander Grant and Jayson DeZuzio. "Thunder" peaked at number four on the US Billboard Hot 100 becoming the band's fourth single to reach the top ten after "Radioactive", "Demons" and "Believer" in that country. It also reached the top 10 in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, and Switzerland, and the top 20 in Finland, France, Ireland, Lebanon, Mexico, Norway, Portugal, and the United Kingdom.

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Music video

The official music video for the song was released on May 2, 2017, the video was shot in Dubai filmed in black and white. It features the band's lead vocalist Dan Reynolds singing and dancing among other extraterrestrials around in a futuristic city. It was directed by Joseph Kahn. As of August 2018, the video has over 860 million views.

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Live performances

Imagine Dragons performed the song at the 2017 American Music Awards, in a medley with singer Khalid's song, "Young Dumb & Broke", who joined them for the performance. A little over a month later, on December 20, a studio version of the mash-up was released.

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Chart performance

"Thunder" peaked at number four on the US Billboard Hot 100. The single has also reached number one in Belarus, the Czech Republic and Latvia and the top ten in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Paraguay, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden, and Switzerland. It topped the Billboard Hot Rock Songs (nineteen weeks so far), Alternative Songs (three weeks so far), Adult Top 40 (four weeks so far), and the Mainstream Top 40 (for one week) charts.

The song became the ninth best-selling song in the United States, with 1,189,000 copies sold in the year.