![]() ![]() Despite this, it has exceeded half a million cumulative sales over the years. Muse’s only studio album to miss out on the Official Albums Chart Top 10 is their 1999 debut Showbiz – peaking at Number 23. Not far behind at Number 2 is 2003's Absolution with 948,000 combined sales to date, while 2009's The Resistance has an admirable 790,000. 980,000 of those were on physical CD or vinyl copies of the album. The band's best-selling album is 2006’s Black Holes & Revelations - home to Supermassive Black Hole – which has surpassed the million sales mark with 1.2 million combined sales. Muse’s Official Top 20 biggest songs on the Official Chart At the time it was the most starkly different song in Muse's arsenal, blending indie rock and Prince-styled funk over towering guitar riffs. While it didn’t quite manage to achieve the top spot in the Official Singles Chart, it did reach a very respectable Number 4 in June 2006. Perhaps the band's best-known song, Supermassive Black Hole is their top seller in the UK, with 580,000 combined sales, split between 380,000 sales and 20.3 million streams. It expresses a general mistrust of bankers, global corporations, and politicians.” Matt Bellamy said the song is “influenced by glam rock, 80s synths, riots and the more eccentric protesters at the recent G2O protests. Uprising doesn’t shy away from its political subject matter with some very to-the-point lyrics. The lead single from the band’s fifth album, 2009’s The Resistance, charted at Number 9 and finishes in second place on Muse's top hits, with 526,000 combined sales. Despite being the band's third most successful single, it didn’t quite rise to the Official Singles Chart Top 10 at time of release, peaking at Number 13. This simple love song is memorable for its upbeat piano riff and killer high notes from Bellamy, as well as Muse's signature hard guitar passages. It reached Number 24 in the UK in 2001 and ranks as their fourth biggest single with 377,000 combined sales, including 10.5 million streams. MORE: See Muse's full Official UK Chart history hereĬovering of one of the world’s best known songs isn't an easy feat, but Feeling Good has often been voted the best cover song of all time. One theory is that it is about the end of a relationship, another is that it's a general muse (sorry) on the fleeting nature of time itself, and some fans think - thanks to the music video - it's about an impending nuclear holocaust. On Metacritic, it has a normalised score of 71 out of 100 based on 14 mainstream critics, indicating 'generally favourable reviews'. Matt Bellamy said at time of release that the song's subject matter is open to interpretation, so of course a few suggestions have cropped up over the years. Will of the People received generally positive reviews from critics. Kicking off with a cutting bass riff before the chorus blows your socks off, Time Is Running Out from their third album Absolution peaked at Number 8, and to date has 292,000 combined UK sales. With the imminent release of their eighth studio album, Simulation Theory, we've dug into the numbers for a closer look at Muse's top hits. Their albums have fared even better, with the last five studio releases debuting at Number 1. Since 1999 Muse have scored 22 hits on the UK's Official Singles Chart Top 40, four of which went Top 10. Thanks to their unique sound and singer Matt Bellamy's distinct falsetto, their songs are unmistakable to even a casual listener. Simulation Theory debuted number 1 worldwide, featuring cover art on Digital Download, CD, Deluxe, Vinyl and Cassette formats.Internationally known for their breed of melancholic alternative rock, Muse have carved themselves a place as one of British music's biggest bands of all time. ![]() Plus, at night time, on an LED billboard, it'll look awesome!" And now I'm glad that the idea finally came to light. As Muse prepare to release their ninth album, frontman Bellamy talks about the return of his dystopian preoccupations, being a reformed conspiracy theorist and looking for hope while living on. ![]() Color-wise and stylistically, we gave him a little direction, and he knew exactly what to do. I'd seen a load of his work aside from Stranger Things and I knew he could nail it. "We looked at a few different people, but I knew that Kyle, who did Stranger Things, would be the one. "We wanted to do it properly: we had to find the right person, it had to be illustrated by hand, it had to actually look like a movie poster," explains Dom. That hasn't worked out, but this time, once we started working on videos with this director, Lance Drake, we realised it would be cool." I've wanted to do that for a few albums - some kind of slightly vintage movie poster. "It was my idea to create something that looked like a film poster. ![]()
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