Imagine Dragon’s Winning 2018

Jul 11, 2018 | 6:15 AM

Imagine Dragons leads almost every category in Billboard‘s just-published lists of the highest-selling rock albums and songs of 2018 so far. The survey breaks down the biggest records based on both traditional sales and streaming-equivalent units, as well as digital single-song sales and streams with and without video.

The Las Vegas-based Imagine Dragons tops every category except traditional album sales, where the band sits at Number Two with its 2017 album Evolve. Overall, rock still relies heavily on traditional album sales as opposed to streaming, with acts like Five Finger Death Punch, Metallica and Breaking Benjamin all placing on the Top 10 Selling Rock Albums chart, which is solely traditional.

Some of the biggest songs on the survey include Bad Wolves‘ cover of the Cranberries‘ “Zombie,” Disturbed‘s remake of Simon & Garfunkel‘s “The Sound Of Silence” and Skillet‘s “Monster.”

But it was Imagine Dragons again who took the crown, with the top two selling digital rock songs being that band’s “Whatever It Takes” and “Thunder.” The latter and “Believer” also scored in the On-Demand Rock Song Streams, On-Demand Rock Audio Streams and On-Demand Rock Video Streams lists.

Story source: Billboard

SIDE NOTES: The complete mid-2018 Top 10 rock LP and song lists are:

2018’s Mid-Year Top 10 Rock Albums (Based on Overall Equivalent Album Units*)
1. Imagine Dragons, Evolve (634,000)
2. Dave Matthews Band, Come Tomorrow (332,000)
3. Fall Out Boy, Mania (233,000)
4. Panic! At The Disco, Pray For The Wicked (232,000)
5. Elton John, Diamonds (229,000)
6. Imagine Dragons, Night Visions (213,000)
7. Queen, Greatest Hits (201,000)
8. Five Finger Death Punch, A Decade of Destruction (198,000)
9. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Greatest Hits (190,000)
10. Twenty One Pilots, Blurryface (189,000)

2018’s Mid-Year Top 10 Selling Rock Albums (i.e. sales of CDs or LPs)
1. Dave Matthews Band, Come Tomorrow (316,000)
2. Imagine Dragons, Evolve (194,000)
3. Fall Out Boy, Mania (162,000)
4. Jack White, Boarding House Reach (159,000)
5. Panic! At The Disco, Pray For The Wicked (151,000)
6. Metallica, Hardwired…To Self-Destruct (142,000)
7. Breaking Benjamin, Ember (123,000)
8. Greta Van Fleet, From The Fires (109,000)
9. Soundtrack, Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2: Awesome Mix Vol. 2 (106,000)
10. Five Finger Death Punch, And Justice for None (100,000)

2018’s Mid-Year Top 10 Selling Digital Rock Songs
1. Imagine Dragons, “Whatever It Takes” (617,000)
2. Imagine Dragons, “Thunder” (579,000)
3. Bad Wolves, “Zombie” (394,000)
4. Portugal. The Man, “Feel It Still” (332,000)
5. Imagine Dragons, “Believer” (297,000)
6. Alice Merton, “No Roots” (207,000)
7. Foster The People, “Sit Next to Me” (190,000)
8. Disturbed, “The Sound of Silence” (137,000)
9. Walk The Moon, “One Foot” (132,000)
10. Panic! At The Disco, “Say Amen (Saturday Night)” (118,000)

2018’s Mid-Year Top 10 On-Demand Rock Song Streams (Audio and Video Combined)
1. Imagine Dragons, “Believer” (297,207,000)
2. Imagine Dragons, “Thunder” (274,866,000)
3. Portugal. The Man, “Feel It Still” (159,715,000)
4. Imagine Dragons, “Whatever It Takes” (115,928,000)
5. Imagine Dragons, “Radioactive” (113,624,000)
6. Twenty One Pilots, “Heathens” (104,328,000)
7. Foster The People, “Pumped Up Kicks” (95,335,000)
8. Twenty One Pilots, “Stressed Out” (94,329,000)
9. Skillet, “Monster” (89,728,000)
9. Bad Wolves, “Zombie” (85,529,000)

2018’s Mid-Year Top 10 On-Demand Rock Audio Streams
1. Imagine Dragons, “Believer” (140,419,000)
2. Imagine Dragons, “Thunder” (133,858,000)
3. Portugal. The Man, “Feel It Still” (125,125,000)
4. Imagine Dragons, “Whatever It Takes” (86,198,000)
5. Imagine Dragons, “Radioactive” (65,491,000)
6. Foster The People, “Sit Next to Me” (61,634,000)
7. Journey, “Don’t Stop Believin’” (56,742,000)
8. The Killers, “Mr. Brightside” (55,308,000)
9. Eagles, “Hotel California” (53,561,000)
10. Imagine Dragons, “Demons” (53,039,000)

2018’s Mid-Year Top 10 On-Demand Rock Video Streams
1. Imagine Dragons, “Believer” (156,789,000)
2. Imagine Dragons, “Thunder” (141,008,000)
3. Skillet, “Monster” (67,597,000)
4. Smash Mouth, “All Star” (55,234,000)
5. Twenty One Pilots, “Heathens” (53,138,000)
6. Foster The People, “Pumped Up Kicks” (51,639,000)
7. Bad Wolves, “Zombie” (50,085,000)
8. Lynyrd Skynyrd, “Simple Man” (48,318,000)
9. Imagine Dragons, “Radioactive” (48,133,000)
10. Twenty One Pilots, “Stressed Out” (47,997,000)