Imagine Dragons is coming to South Africa

The South African dates are part of the band’s Mercury World Tour, which celebrates the release of their 13-track album Mercury – Act 1. The follow-up Mercury Act 2 is slated for release on 1 July.

“South Africa, finally we’re coming,” the group wrote on social media, with comments from some fans requesting the band to include Durban on their South African schedule.

Imagine Dragons is one of the world’s biggest rock bands, selling more than 60 million album equivalents and 55 million digital songs. The Las Vegas band is best known for the tracks ‘Believer’, ‘Thunder’ and ‘Radioactive’, which topped the rock charts in the 2010s.

Formed in 2008, Imagine Dragons developed a grassroots following with a series of independent EPs before making their major-label debut on KIDinaKORNER/Interscope with 2012’s Continued Silence EP. That same year, their debut LP Night Visions entered the Billboard 200 at No 2, while lead track ‘Radioactive’ topped Billboard’s Hot Rock Songs chart, won a Grammy for Best Rock Performance, and achieved diamond status in the US. Other albums by the group include Smoke + Mirrors (2015), Evolve (2017) and Origins (2018).

Tickets to the Cape Town and Johannesburg concerts will go on sale via Ticketmaster from 8 July at 9am.