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Showbiz by Muse
Showbiz is an album by Muse, released in 1999. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 1 countdown appearance in total. The biggest is “Sunburn”, on 1 list with a best position of #82.
Showbiz, the debut album from the Teignmouth, Devon trio Muse, surfaced in September 1999, in France first and in Britain a few weeks later. John Leckie and Paul Reeve produced it alongside the band, with sessions at RAK Studios and Sawmills Studio, and the lineup that is still intact today was already locked in: Matt Bellamy on guitar, keyboards and lead vocals, Chris Wolstenholme on bass, Dominic Howard on drums.
What grabs you first is Bellamy's falsetto, soaring and wounded over a gloomy, melancholic alternative rock churn that swells and crashes like bad weather. Five singles came off it: "Uno", "Cave", "Muscle Museum", "Sunburn" and the tender "Unintended". Reviews leaned kind and it climbed to number 29 in the UK; worldwide sales passed 1.2 million by 2018. Origin of Symmetry, two years on, would blow the sound up to widescreen.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Showbiz on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sunburn | 1 | #82 | – | 2000 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.