"Hear Me" | ||||
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Single by Imagine Dragons | ||||
from the album Night Visions | ||||
Released | November 24, 2012 | |||
Recorded | 2010 | |||
Studio | Battle Born Studios (Paradise, Nevada, United States) | |||
Length | 3:55 | |||
Label | Interscope | |||
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Imagine Dragons singles chronology | ||||
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"Hear Me" on YouTube |
"Hear Me" is a song by American rock band Imagine Dragons, originally written and recorded for their second extended play, Hell and Silence . It appears as the third track on the EP. The song was re-recorded and mastered for their debut studio album, Night Visions , on which it appears as the seventh track.
The song was released as the lead single from Night Visions in the United Kingdom and Ireland on November 24, 2012, since the multi-selling platinum single, "It's Time", was not released there until August 2013. The song debuted at number 37 on the UK Singles Chart.
The cover art for the single comes from their earlier Continued Silence EP .
"Hear Me" was first played live on March 6, 2010. [1] During the "Fall 2012 Tour", "Hear Me" would occasionally be played toward the beginning of the set. "Hear Me" was first performed live on PBS' Vegas In Tune, broadcast in early 2012. [2] The song has so far been performed on every date of their "Europe Tour 2012", appearing in the middle of the setlist, after "Cha-Ching (Till We Grow Older)" or "Round and Round".
"Hear Me" is featured on the soundtrack to the 2011 feature film, Answers to Nothing . [3] It is also occasionally used on MTV's reality show, The Real World: Las Vegas .
No music video was produced for "Hear Me", although a lyric video was uploaded by the band to YouTube on November 12, 2012. [4] The video features pictures uploaded and submitted by followers of the band on the online photo-sharing, video-sharing and social networking service Instagram, where fans would feature lyrics from "Hear Me" in their pictures, whether the lyrics were transcribed metaphorically, literally or simply written. The video was the second video to be co-produced by fans, with the music video for "Tokyo", a song off their 2011 extended play It's Time being the first, featuring fans dancing along to the song. [5]
The lyric video also featured simple fan pictures, such as selfies and pictures of the band taken at various concerts. The idea of a video taking place at an Imagine Dragons concert later inspired and was implemented in the music video for "Demons". [6] Over 300 different Instagram photos from users were featured in the video.
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Hear Me" | 3:55 |
2. | "Round and Round" | 3:17 |
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Hear Me" | 3:55 |
2. | "Radioactive" | 3:07 |
Chart (2012) | Peak position |
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UK Singles (Official Charts Company) [7] | 37 |
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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United States (RIAA) [8] | Gold | 500,000‡ |
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. |
Country | Date | Format | Label |
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Ireland | November 24, 2012 | CD | Interscope Records |
United Kingdom | |||
Australia [9] | December 6, 2012 | Streamed audio |
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