Imagine Dragons’ "Thunder" Hits 2 Billion Views on YouTube

American pop rock band Imagine Dragons are already familiar with what it feels like to notch two billion YouTube views for a music video thanks to their “Believer” clip. 

Now, they are in rarified air with a second video to hit two bills. The band’s roaring 2017 rock hit “Thunder” — from their third album, Evolve — hit the mark this week.

Moreover, a colored visual of the black and white clip filmed in Dubai by director Joseph Kahn has also rolled up more than 12 million likes. 

Last July, the band’s video for the Alex da Kid-produced single “Demons” hit the one billion mark. At the time, it became the group’s fourth video to reach the one billion plateau, following on the heels of “Believer”, “Thunder”, and “Radioactive”.

In December, the Las Vegas-bred band spoke to Billboard about how they managed to keep scaling new heights a decade after their commercial breakthrough. 

“It’s so funny to me when people are like, ‘Well of course I could do pop music, but I choose this [other genre],’” singer Dan Reynolds said after noting that it is “really complex” to write seemingly simple pop tunes. “I’m like, ‘Great pop music? Like, big songs that live on? That’s actually really hard.’”