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| Genre = | Length = | Label = | Producer = | Last album = ''Continued Silence EP'' (2012) | This album = ''Night Visions'' (2012) | Next album = ''Live at Independent Records'' (2013) | Misc = }} ''Night Visions'' is the debut studio album by American rock band Imagine Dragons. It was released on September 4, 2012 through Interscope Records. The extended track was released on February 12, 2013, adding three more songs. Recorded between 2010 and 2012, the album was primarily produced by the band themselves, as well as English hip-hop producer Alex da Kid and Brandon Darner from the American indie rock group The Envy Corps. It was mastered by Joe LaPorta. According to frontman Dan Reynolds, the album took three years to finish, with six of the album's tracks being previously released on multiple EPs. Musically, ''Night Visions'' exhibits influences of folk, hip hop and pop.〔 The album debuted at number two on the ''Billboard'' 200 in the United States, selling more than 83,000 copies within its first week where it has since been certified double Platinum. It also peaked at the summit of the ''Billboard'' Alternative Albums and Rock Albums charts, as well as in the top ten albums in Australia, Austria, Canada, Germany, Ireland, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, and United Kingdom.〔 ''Night Visions'' appeared in the ''Billboard'' 200 top 10 in 2012, 2013, and 2014. The album became the fourth best-selling album of 2013 in the US.〔 It was nominated for the Juno Award for International Album of the Year (2014) and won the Billboard Music Award for Top Rock Album (2014). ==Background== In 2008, Imagine Dragons formed consisting of lead singer Dan Reynolds, guitarist Wayne Sermon, bassist Ben McKee, and drummer Daniel Platzman. Each of the members moved to Las Vegas, Nevada to form Imagine Dragons, a rock band. After playing in numerous local Battle of Bands competitions, the band recorded and released three extended plays: 2009's ''Imagine Dragons'', 2010's ''Hell and Silence'' and 2011's ''It's Time.'' After the Tolmans left the band in July 2011 to be replaced with drummer Dan Platzman in August 2011,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.danielplatzman.com/imagine-dragons/ )〕 the band was picked up by Universal Records and was signed to Interscope in late 2011. In 2011, the band entered the studio to write and record their major-label debut extended play, ''Continued Silence'' and additional material for a debut studio album. ''Continued Silence'' was released on February 14, 2012 and was met with critical acclaim, reaching at number 40 on the US ''Billboard'' 200 as well in their chart debut. The EP served as a prelude to the band's debut studio album, with "It's Time", a song featured on ''Continued Silence'' and released as a promotional single from the EP, serving as the lead single from the album, reaching at number 15 on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100 by the end of 2012. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Night Visions (album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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