Dan Reynolds Of Imagine Dragons Has Perfect Reply To Critics After Band Scores Rock Honor

Imagine Dragons frontman Dan Reynolds has no time for purist rock fans sore about his bands success.

On Tuesday, Billboard unveiled its Top Rock Songs of the Decade ranking, with Imagine Dragons represented in the top spots with three of its biggest hits.

Believer, from the bands 2017 album Evolve , crowned the list. Thunder, also released in 2017, and 2012s Radioactive came in at No. 2 and No. 3 respectively, ahead of songs by Panic! at the Disco and Twenty One Pilots.

As with all of Billboards charts, the ranking was based on sales, airplay and streaming numbers. Still, the list instantly divided fans, including many who expressed their distaste for the music outlet designating Imagine Dragons as a rock band.

Just because a song has percussion doesnt mean its rock, one person wrote . Added another : This is a pretty damned accurate list of Best Songs For Riverdale Characters To Bang To. Thats it.

Hours after the chart was released, Reynolds responded to both his bands supporters and detractors with a suitably cheeky tweet.

got on twitter to find all the slander and all the love. thank you for the love and yea Id probably be mad if it wasnt my band but it is my band hahahahahahbaba https://t.co/le16Mep6mR

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got on twitter to find all the slander and all the love. thank you for the love and yea Id probably be mad if it wasnt my band but it is my band hahahahahahbaba https://t.co/le16Mep6mR
Dan Reynolds (@DanReynolds) December 31, 2019

Minutes later, the singer-songwriter offered a few more thoughts, and said he felt incredibly blessed to be reflecting on his bands success at the end of a decade.

The world can debate what genre it belongs in, Reynolds added. Thats not my concern.

and in all serious. thank you so much. I feel incredibly blessed to be able to have spent the last decade writing this music and sharing it w you. it all comes from a real place and it always will. the world can debate what genre it belongs in. thats not my concern.

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and in all serious. thank you so much. I feel incredibly blessed to be able to have spent the last decade writing this music and sharing it w you. it all comes from a real place and it always will. the world can debate what genre it belongs in. thats not my concern.
Dan Reynolds (@DanReynolds) December 31, 2019

Just weeks ago Reynolds told CNN that he and his bandmates would be taking some time off to reconnect with family and friends after years spent touring the globe.

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We were on the road for really a decade straight, Reynolds, a Las Vegas native and father of four , said. So all of us were just wanting to rediscover what it means to be, you know, a dad or a friend or a son.

Still, he plans to spend part of that downtime writing new music.

I wake up and it gives me an excuse to go into a room by myself and be in a place, you know, solitude and create art and that brings me a lot of peace, he said .