Billboard released its Top Rock Songs of the Decade list earlier this week, which proved controversial on Twitter and drew a response from the lead singer of the band Imagine Dragons, according to HuffPost.
The top three spots on the list were taken by songs from Imagine Dragons, based on sales, airplay and streaming numbers, HuffPost reported. Despite this, many music fans were dissatisfied, claiming that many of songs on the list were not really “rock songs.”
The Billboard list also included songs from bands such as Twenty One Pilots, Walk the Moon and Panic! at the Disco.
The list stirred up controversy on Twitter, with many people arguing that the top 10 songs did not qualify as rock.
But Dan Reynolds, lead singer of Imagine Dragons and founder of Utah’s LoveLoud Festival, was quick to come back with a response.
“Got on Twitter to find all the slander and all the love. Thank you for the love,” Reynolds wrote on Twitter, jokingly adding, “I’d probably be mad if it wasn’t my band but it is my band.”
In response to detractors claiming his music was not rock music, Reynolds tweeted, “The world can debate what genre it belongs in. That’s not my concern.”
Reynolds also wrote, “I feel incredibly blessed to be able to have spent the last decade writing this music and sharing it w(ith) you. It all comes from a real place and it always will.”