10 Biggest Sell Out Albums In Hard Rock Music History

10. Simulation Theory - Muse

Okay, so there’s probably millions of Muse fans that probably saw this coming from a mile away. Even when Matthew Bellamy’s songwriting got the comparisons to Radiohead though, you weren’t going to mistake Knights of Cydonia with anything by Thom Yorke any time soon. Somewhere after the Drones regime died down though, Matt busted out the keyboard and chose to coat the entire next album in an ‘80s pastiche.

That’s not to say Simulation Theory is a full on sell out album from skin to core. There are a lot of trademark Muse moments on here like the bombastic sounds of Get Up and Fight and the dance energy coming through on a song like Pressure. For the rest of the track listing though, you can hear Matt relying a little too much on the dystopian side of lyrical topics and is much more interested with shoving as many sounds into the mix on a song like Propaganda.

It’s not like Muse isn’t capable of dipping their toes into the electronica pool either, since they already made it work just a few years before on the 2nd Law. Whereas the first time sounded like a bold left turn for them, this is more along the lines of songs that would make decent background music on Stranger Things.