28, and “Shots” (the beneficiary of a very expensive four-minute commercial during this year’s Grammys) peaked at No. But of the three tracks from Smoke + Mirrors released to date, only two have hit the Hot 100- “I Bet My Life” reached No.
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The fact that “Demons” did well, even before the previous album-promotion cycle was over, provides reason for them to hope. Forget their prior album-just following up “Radioactive” is a huge uphill battle. This explains why even the chart experts at Billboard can’t agree on what we should expect from Imagine Dragons now. And “Radioactive”-with its lurching rhythm and bludgeoning chorus-is a particularly strange song by which to be defined. But a hit song that sticks around the charts for a year or more tends to wear out an artist’s welcome with the public, and it pigeonholes them for all time. 1 hit, even one that stays on top for months, it’s possible to come back with another massive hit.
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This, then, is the curse of the Hot 100 longevity record: It’s both career-defining and a fluke.
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Unfortunately, to those of us who follow the charts closely, it’s also something of a curse-arguably an even bigger jinx than Best New Artist at the Grammys. A chart run as historic as “Radioactive’s” does reflect some kind of popularity. Some stat, right? “I Want to Hold Your Hand,” “Stayin’ Alive,” “Billie Jean,” “Smells Like Teen Spirit”-“Radioactive” rode the Hot 100 longer than these four songs combined. So I mean, they have this great track record-I think, though … they’re still a fairly anonymous band, in many ways, to the general public.” It generated three top 20 hits on the Hot 100 chart. It has never left the chart-it has been in the top for every single one of its 129 weeks, except for just two. You know, ’cause their first album did two and a half million. “I guess I was expecting Imagine Dragons to be bigger.
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“Well, I mean, is this really that strong?” he mused aloud. (By the album chart’s new math, which also bakes in streaming and track sales, the cumulative total was 195,000 units.) Lipshutz declared it a “really strong album debut,” but Caulfield demurred. 1 on that week’s album chart with 172,000 in pure sales. Imagine Dragons’ Smoke + Mirrors opened at No. On Billboard’s Pop Shop podcast a couple weeks ago, the magazine’s associate editor Jason Lipshutz and associate director of charts Keith Caulfield were politely debating whether the new album at No.