Reynolds told MTV in 2014 that the band wanted to "put out an album that really happy with". The idea behind the second studio album, dubbed as their "new year's resolution", was to create music and finish it when the band feels that their work is done. 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 band were also inspired greatly by the band's experiences on the Night Visions Tour. I don't know when it will be, but it may come". Hopefully we don't die and there will be a second album. 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. 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. An additional tour of North America, dubbed the "Into the Night Tour", was also executed. The tour spanned for over 170 dates, and visited North America, South America, Europe and Oceania. 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". Billboard listed the band as one of "2012's Brightest New Stars" and later "The Breakout Band of 2013". 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. "Radioactive", a 2013 single, sold more than six million singles in the United States, spending more than 1 year consecutively on the Billboard Hot 100. The band released six singles during the Night Visions album cycle in 20, five of which charting on the Billboard Hot 100. The album was also nominated for the 2014 Juno Award for International Album of the Year. Certified Platinum by seven national music associations, including 2xPlatinum in the United States by the RIAA and 3xPlatinum in Canada by Music Canada, 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, 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. In 2012, Imagine Dragons released their debut studio album Night Visions. Pre-orders for the album became available on December 15, 2014. Self-produced by members of the band along with English hip-hop producer Alexander Grant, known by his moniker Alex Da Kid, the album is set to be released by Interscope Records and Grant's KIDinaKORNER label on Februin the United States. Smoke and Mirrors (stylized Smoke + Mirrors) is the second studio album by American rock band Imagine Dragons.
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