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Drones by Muse
Drones is an album by Muse, released in 2015. 4 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 22 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Dead Inside”, on 13 lists with a best position of #5.
Drones, Muse's seventh album, arrived on 5 June 2015 on Warner Bros. and the band's own Helium-3 imprint, and after years of orchestral and electronic excursions it's the trio getting its hands dirty again: Matt Bellamy's riffs up front, Chris Wolstenholme and Dominic Howard hammering underneath, and Mutt Lange co-producing at the Warehouse Studio in Vancouver with a big, arena-sized crunch.
It's a concept album, too, the story of a soldier who is abandoned, programmed into a "human drone" and finally breaks ranks, with a pointed swipe at the Obama administration's drone program along the way. "Mercy" and "Dead Inside" carry the hooks. Critics liked the playing more than the plot, but the record topped 21 charts around the world, the US and UK included, and won the Grammy for Best Rock Album.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Drones on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dead Inside | 13 | #5 | – | 2015–2019 | |
| 2 | Mercy | 5 | #1 | 1 | 2015 | |
| 3 | Psycho | 2 | #19 | – | 2015 | |
| 4 | Reapers | 2 | #14 | – | 2015–2019 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.