Evolve
by Imagine Dragons

Evolve by Imagine Dragons
Year: 2017
Release date: 2017-06-23
Overall rank: 13,211th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
58/100 (from 76 votes)
  Ratings distribution   Average rating history
Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2017 (279th)
Award Top albums of of the 2010s (2,672nd)
Award Best albums of all time (13,211th)

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Imagine Dragons bestography

Evolve is ranked 3rd best out of 12 albums by Imagine Dragons on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Imagine Dragons is Night Visions which is ranked number 3475 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 432.

Imagine Dragons album bestography « Higher ranked (11,383rd)
Smoke + Mirrors
This album (13,211th)
Evolve
Lower ranked (25,419th) »
Mercury - Acts 1 & 2

(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).

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Evolve rankings

Evolve rankings summary
Overall rank: 13,211th | 2010s rank: 2,672nd | 2017 rank: 279th  Overall chart history
(Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). (Last updated: 5 hours ago).

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Evolve ratings

Average Rating: 
58/100 (from 76 votes)
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25/100
From 12/24/2023 20:12 | #300648
The musical equivalent of having something rank pass under your nose for a moment. I don't think this album is the worst album ever, just because some of the songs are merely bad and don't descend to the incredible depths of a "Believer" (God has abandoned us) or a "Thunder" (maybe the worst song ever written that can actually be taken remotely seriously). Imagine Dragons has declared the band's approach to be "genre-less;" file this record under evidence that they are also tasteless, shameless, thoughtless, warrantless, talentless, and pointless.
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30/100
From 01/27/2019 11:13 | #230769
If this is what they call evolving, then I'm scared to hear Imagine Dragons' final form.

Favourite track: "Believer"
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Rating:  
70/100
From 04/03/2018 06:18 | #212220
I've heard this on the radio so many times that I've eventually come to think it's decent. Maybe this is true of literally any music.
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70/100
From 01/11/2018 04:52 | #205251
Big improvement over Smoke + Mirrors.
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60/100
From 06/24/2017 21:04 | #193160
Apart from Believer and Thunder, the remaining songs are simply forgetable.
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