Peak
15
Weeks
47
Score
5,736
Chart Year
2013
The music video debuted on April 17, 2012, on all MTV affiliates and the band was named PUSH Artist of the Week and later featured on PUSH Live.[5][6] A first teaser released March 28, 2012. The video also reached #1 on Yahoo Music's Top Videos.[7] The video starts with the band walking through a barren wasteland beneath a dark and ominous looking sky. The sky begins to grow more turbulent as the band walks past flags and boat wreckage, a destroyed bridge, and dead trees. Bassist McKee opens a box he has been carrying and a pale light glows from within. The band removes a pebble-sized, glowing orb from the box. The band members dig a hole for it with their hands, and then drop the orb into the ground. Lead singer Dan Reynolds then shouts, and in the next scene the band members are shown running away from their dig site. A large explosion throws Reynolds into the air where he seems to levitate (similarly to the Continued Silence album cover). Finally, the sky begins to part and the sunlight shines through. The music video was produced by Todd Makurath and directed by Anthony Leonardi III. Ian Clemmer, who created some of the visual effects, wrote on his website that he "was asked to create big, large scale smoke explosions in a short amount of time, these are the end shots of the video ...."[8] About 2 months after the original music video, another one was created for the Jailbreaks remix
Imagine Dragons is a four-piece rock band based in Las Vegas, Nevada comprising vocalist Dan Reynolds, guitarist D Wayne Sermon, bassist Ben McKee and drummer Daniel "Z" Platzma, After recording three buzzed about EPs, Imagine Dragons signed to major label Interscope Records in November 2011. They linked up with producer Alex Da Kid (Eminem, Rihanna) to record Continued Silence, their first major label release. This is the lead single from the EP. Reynolds says the song is "about self-empowerment and staying true to your roots." Reynolds told The Huffington Post about the writing process for the song: "There's so many times you wake up at 3 a.m., grab a recorder on the iPhone and say something - a lyrical idea or melody - and then you lay it out in logic later on and sometimes it makes no sense," he said. "We sat with 'It's Time' for a year or year-and-a-half. Sometimes you just have to let a song sit for awhile. There's just something really special about it. I wrote it during a very hard time in my life. I had dropped out of college, and I was just sitting down at my computer, and I came up with this rhythm. And the words just wrote themselves. I knew I had something special coming. When a song is most honest and most raw that's when you know you're doing something right. A lot of my favorite artists are able to be in touch with their problems and put it through melodies. It happens all the time with bands." The song featured in the trailer for the American film adaptation of The Perks Of Being a Wallflower. The Anthony Leonardi III directed music video features the band as mystic travelers carrying a very special parcel. The clip also works as a metaphor for Imagine Dragons' rise. "We had this idea in our heads for a long time, but, you know, we could never make it," frontman Dan Reynolds told MTV News. "Until we found a director who could bring it to life. We went out to Barstow [California] - which is between Las Vegas and L.A., and we've made that drive many times, because we're from Vegas - and we shot it on a dry lake bed. It was our first time doing a music video, so it was a really awesome experience." Reynolds wrote the inspirational anthem in his kitchen as he dealt with a bout of depression. "I was dropping out of college, making some changes, and it wasn't the peak of my life," he told Billboard magazine. "I was just trying to write a song for myself. I've struggled with depression and anxiety, and the song spurred from that. Whoever connects to it, I'm happy."
So this is what you meant When you said that you were spent And now it's time to build from the bottom of the pit, right to the top Don't hold back Packing my bags and giving the Academy a rain check I don't ever want to let you down I don't ever want to leave this town 'Cause after all This city never sleeps at night It's time to begin, isn't it? I get a little bit bigger but then I'll admit I'm just the same as I was Now don't you understand That I'm never changing who I am So this is where you fell And I am left to sell The path to heaven runs through miles of clouded hell right to the top Don't look back Turning to rags and giving the commodities a rain check I don't ever want to let you down I don't ever want to leave this town 'Cause after all This city never sleeps at night It's time to begin, isn't it? I get a little bit bigger but then I'll admit I'm just the same as I was Now don't you understand That I'm never changing who I am It's time to begin, isn't it? I get a little bit bigger but then I'll admit I'm just the same as I was Now don't you understand That I'm never changing who I am This road never looked so lonely This house doesn't burn down slowly To ashes To ashes It's time to begin, isn't it? I get a little bit bigger, but then I'll admit I'm just the same as I was Now don't you understand That, I'm never changing who I am It's time to begin, isn't it? I get a little bit bigger but then I'll admit I'm just the same as I was Don't you understand That I'm never changing who I am
| Week | Chart Date | Position | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jun 23, 2012 | 93 | 33 |
| 2 | Jun 30, 2012 | 92 | 34 |
| 3 | Jul 7, 2012 | 89 | 37 |
| 4 | Jul 14, 2012 | 89 | 37 |
| 5 | Jul 21, 2012 | 91 | 35 |
| 6 | Jul 28, 2012 | 82 | 44 |
| 7 | Aug 4, 2012 | 81 | 45 |
| 8 | Aug 11, 2012 | 85 | 41 |
| 9 | Aug 18, 2012 | 83 | 43 |
| 10 | Aug 25, 2012 | 79 | 47 |
| 11 | Sep 1, 2012 | 69 | 57 |
| 12 | Sep 8, 2012 | 67 | 59 |
| 13 | Sep 15, 2012 | 63 | 63 |
| 14 | Sep 22, 2012 | 49 | 77 |
| 15 | Sep 29, 2012 | 33 | 93 |
| 16 | Oct 6, 2012 | 37 | 89 |
| 17 | Oct 13, 2012 | 40 | 86 |
| 18 | Oct 20, 2012 | 41 | 85 |
| 19 | Oct 27, 2012 | 39 | 87 |
| 20 | Nov 3, 2012 | 35 | 91 |