Supermassive Black Hole

In this song, Matt Bellamy sings about being annoyed with the fame that has increased with the band becoming more popular.

This song was used on the soundtrack of the 2008 movie Twilight. Stephenie Meyer, who wrote the original novel, is a big fan of Muse and after this song was placed on the movie's soundtrack, the band's popularity jumped. In the track's two-and-a-half years of release before the Twilight film's debut, it had sold just over 150,000 downloads. In the year after the film hit screens, the track sold over 300,000. Muse's manager Cliff Burnstein recalled to Billboard magazine: "Some time ago, when the band was playing in Arizona, we invited [Meyer] to a show. Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke wanted to use 'Supermassive' in a very long scene, with not a lot of dialogue in the foreground. We thought, 'This is fun; this is a nice woman who writes these books, she's a fan of ours, let's get involved in this.' No one was really thinking at the time, 'This is a huge opportunity.'"

This was the first single to be released from Black Holes and Revelations. According to Bellamy, this was "a deliberate shock tactic" to "create a stir."