In September 2009, Muse performed "Uprising" for the first time at the
2009 MTV Video Music Awards. "Uprising" won Best Single at the 2010
Music Producers Guild Awards. Accepting the award, Bellamy thanked
John Leckie, the producer of their first two albums, for "teaching us how to produce". Bellamy later said his comment had been misconstrued and that Muse had never worked with Rubin; instead, he said Muse had been inspired by stories of his "hands-off" production style. "Uprising" reached the top 10 in Belgium (Wallonia), Denmark, Finland, Norway, Scotland, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. It was
certified silver in the United Kingdom, gold in Australia, Belgium, Canada, Italy and New Zealand, and platinum in France and Switzerland and double-platinum in the United States. "Uprising" was Muse's first entry on the
Billboard Hot 100, reaching number 37 on the week ending 3 October, and spent 20 weeks on the Hot 100. It had sold 2,170,000 copies in the US . "Uprising" reached number one on the US
Billboard Alternative Songs chart on 9 September 2009. It was Muse's sixth top-10 single and first number one on the chart, and spent 17 weeks at number one, becoming the second longest-running number one song ever on the chart at the time. As songs on the chart are retired for charting out of the top 10 beyond week 52, "Uprising" was removed for a week after logging its 52nd week for missing the top 10. However, the following week it gained enough points to return to the top 10, returning it to the chart for a 53rd week. In 2013,
Billboard named "Uprising" number one in its 25th-anniversary list of the top 100 songs to enter the chart. It was ranked number three on an updated version of the list in 2023, after the success of
All Time Low's "
Monsters" and
Lovelytheband's "
Broken" in the late 2010s and early 2020s. Bellamy expressed discomfort that "Uprising" was used in
YouTube videos advocating for
conspiracy theories, saying "the conspiracy theory subculture has been hijacked by the right to try to take down people like
Obama and put forward
rightwing libertarianism". Muse refused requests from American politicians to use "Uprising" in their rallies. == Personnel ==