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Imagine Dragons slay all opposition with second album Smoke & Mirrors debuting atop the chart on first week sales of 25,675. The alternative rock quartet from Las Vegas are the first band to have a No.1 album this year, the first American group to have a number one album since Haim in October 2013.

Home to the preview track Warriors, which reached number 54 last October, and introductory single I Bet My Life, which drifts from its debut position ...