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}} ''Smoke + Mirrors'' is the second studio album by American rock band Imagine Dragons. The album was recorded during 2014 at the band's home studio in Las Vegas, Nevada. Self-produced by members of the band along with English hip-hop producer Alexander Grant, known by his moniker Alex da Kid, the album was released by Interscope Records and Grant's KIDinaKORNER label on February 17, 2015, in the United States.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Imagine Dragons' New Desolation: The Making of 'Smoke + Mirrors' )〕 The album received generally mixed reviews from music critics upon release.〔 However, it debuted at number one on the ''Billboard'' 200 in the United States, moving more than 172,000 units,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Imagine Dragons Slay at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Chart )〕 and also debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart and the Canadian Albums Chart.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Imagine Dragons claim first UK Number 1 album )〕 It has since been certified gold in the United States, United Kingdom, and Brazil. Three official singles have been released from the album: "I Bet My Life", "Gold" and "Shots". ==Background== In 2012, Imagine Dragons released their debut studio album ''Night Visions''. The album, produced by the band along with Alexander Grant and Brandon Darner, launched the band into international mainstream commercial success, charting within the top ten of 14 national record charts, in addition to charting on eight others. Certified Platinum by seven national music associations, including 2x Platinum in the United States by the RIAA〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?artist=%22Night+Visions%22 )〕 and 3x Platinum in Canada by Music Canada,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.musiccanada.com/GPSearchResult.aspx?st=Night+Visions&sa=Imagine+Dragons&smt=0 )〕 the album was initially met with first week sales in excess of 83,000 copies, the highest charting for a debut rock album since 2006. The album was also nominated for the 2014 Juno Award for International Album of the Year. The band released six singles during the ''Night Visions'' album cycle in 2012 and 2013, five of which charted on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. "Radioactive," a 2013 single, sold more than nine million singles in the United States, spending more than 1 year consecutively on the Billboard Hot 100. Peaking at no. 3 on the chart, it also broke the record for the longest run into the top five and is the best-selling rock single on the Nielsen SoundScan running list of best-selling rock tracks in digital history. ''Billboard'' listed the band as one of "2012's Brightest New Stars" and later "The Breakout Band of 2013." To further promote the already-successful ''Night Visions'', the band set out on a year-long concert tour beginning in early 2013 and ending in mid-2014, dubbed the "Night Visions Tour." The tour spanned for over 170 dates, and visited North America, South America, Europe and Oceania. An additional tour of North America, dubbed the "Into the Night Tour," was also executed. The conclusion of the Into the Night Tour signaled the end of the ''Night Visions'' album cycle, with ''Night Visions Live'', a live album, serving as the last release in the cycle. Lead singer Dan Reynolds joked about the end of the ''Night Visions'' cycle, saying that "We're always writing on the road, () that second album will come, unless we die at the age of 27 next year. Hopefully we don't die and there will be a second album. I don't know when it will be, but it may come." The band were also inspired greatly by their experiences on the Night Visions Tour. Dan Reynolds told New Orleans-based newspaper ''The Times-Picayune'' that the world tour had "a lot of inspiration to be drawn," and further stating, "You kind of realize that you’re a lot smaller than you think." The idea behind the second studio album, dubbed as their "new year's resolution,"〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://twitter.com/Imaginedragons/status/416423171768602625 )〕 was to create music and finish it when the band feels that their work is done. Reynolds told MTV in 2014 that the band wanted to "put out an album that () really happy with". He further said that "we tend to be perfectionists, too hard on ourselves at times, and we don't want to rush anything because we know how we are with things. We don't want to put a record out until we really feel good about it, you know, and who knows how long that will take." 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「Smoke + Mirrors」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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