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Muse have been named the biggest selling progressive act of the millennium so far.
The band beat Pink Floyd to the top spot in a list compiled by the Official Charts Company and Prog Magazine to celebrate their new monthly Official Progressive Albums Chart.
From September 9, Prog Magazine will publish the Official Progressive Albums Chart - a Top 30 of the biggest progressive albums over the previous month - in each of its monthly issues. The chart will also be published on OfficialCharts.com.
Jerry Ewing, editor of Prog Magazine, said: "Prog artists have always pushed the boundaries of musical convention, and by doing so, many have gone on to be some of the best-selling and most influential artists of all time, but prog didn't stop in the 1970s, there are many people out there who are into prog artists and just don't seem to know it!
"We're delighted to be working with the Official Charts Company and that the voice of the UK's best-selling music have given prog the platform it so deserves."
Martin Talbot, Chief Executive of the Official Charts Company, added: "We are delighted to be working with the progressive music experts at Prog Magazine to create this exciting new chart - and look forward to giving the most inventive artists working today a new showcase of their own, every month."
Prog music is commonly defined as a rock music subgenre and includes artists such as Muse, Genesis, Pink Floyd and Radiohead.
Orange Amplification presents Progressive Music Awards in association with currencies.co.uk, take place on Thursday (03.09.15) at the Underglobe at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre.

Official Progressive Artists of the 21st Century - Top 10

Muse (biggest album: Black Holes & Revelations)
Pink Floyd (The Dark Side Of the Moon)
Radiohead (OK Computer)
Kate Bush (Aerial)
Jeff Wayne (The War Of The Worlds)
Air (Moon Safari)
Sigur Ros (Takk)
Mike Oldfield (Tubular Bells)
Genesis (Selling England By The Pound)
Flaming Lips (Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots)

Take That will be among the headline acts at the Apple Music Festival at London's Roundhouse.
The group - comprised of Gary Barlow, Mark Owen and Howard Donald - will be one of the star attractions at the event formerly known as the iTunes Festival, which is set to take place from September 19th until September 28th.
They said: "We're really excited to be playing our first ever Apple Music Festival alongside an amazing line-up. We had a great time on tour in the UK and are looking forward to playing the Roundhouse in September before we head out to Europe."
The Weeknd, The Chemical Brothers, James Bay and Leon Bridges have also been added to the line-up.
Previously announced headliners include One Direction, supported by Little Mix, and singer Niall Horan said: "It'll be great to be back in London and we can't wait to perform for our fans in the Roundhouse and around the world on Apple Music!"
Florence + The Machine, Disclosure and Pharrell Williams were announced last month.
Previous performers at the eight-year-old old event - which has been renamed the Apple Music Festival to support the launch of the new Apple Music app - have included Adele, Lady Gaga and Justin Timberlake.

Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson believes his cancer may have been caused by the sexually transmitted HPV virus.
The 56-year-old rocker was given the all-clear from the disease, which was attacking the back of his tongue, in May following several weeks of chemotherapy.
Bruce has now claimed the cancer could be the result of HPV (human papillomavirus) which is passed on through cunnilingus - oral sex performed on a women - and he insists more should be done to try and understand the link between the two illnesses.
In an interview with Jim Norton on Opie Radio, he said: "The thing about the HPV virus is people don't know a great deal about it. I don't mean to be flippant or anything, but you would expect lesbians to have a higher incidence of it. But no, there's is 25 percent less than in men. It seems to be something that affects men. There are 150 or so strains of HPV virus, but only a couple you're interested in, 80 percent of us have been exposed to it, and you can't get rid of it. It comes and it goes. For some reason, and nobody knows why, in guys over 40 it can persist. The virus leaves behind a little genetic code, that starts off the cancer."
Now he is cancer-free, Bruce - who was busy recording the new Iron Maiden album 'The Book of Souls' before he was diagnosed with cancer - has made a vow not to let people "waste" his time and he also has new found respect for all the people battling cancer across the world.
He added: "I've learnt to have less time for people who waste my time. If I want to waste my time, I'll waste my own time. They also had me on morphine for the last couple of weeks for pain. It was very disappointing ... There are hundreds of thousands of people dealing with this every day. It's astonishing there aren't more people jumping off bridges, you know?"
Hollywood star Michael Douglas also overcame tongue cancer and previously mused that his illness could have been caused by the HPV virus transmitted by oral sex.

Motorhead had to cancel their planned concert in San Antonio, Texas, on Wednesday (02.09.15) as frontman Lemmy is still suffering from altitude sickness.
The heavy metal band had to stop their gig in Austin on Tuesday (01.09.15) after playing just three songs as Lemmy is still unwell.
He told fans: "I can't do it."
Lemmy, 69, first got altitude sickness during a concert in Salt Lake City, Utah, on August 27 as the thin air in the city made it difficult for the rocker to breathe.
Following the aborted gig in Austin, a post on the group's Facebook page read: "As you might have heard, Motorhead again had to abbreviate a performance due to Lemmy not feeling well. This is a direct follow-on from the altitude issues in Colorado, and clearly, Lemmy tried to get back at it too quickly. For this reason, Motorhead will not play in San Antonio tonight, but the show will still go on with Saxon headlining. Lemmy will resume duties the moment he is properly rested and firing on all cylinders again. The legendary Motorheadbanger patience is much appreciated, and the band send their deepest thanks. More details will be released soon."
Hard-living Lemmy has suffered from various medical issues in recent years, being fitted with a pacemaker in 2013 and suffering a haematoma in 2014.
The 'Ace of Spades' singer has been instructed by doctors to cut back on drinking alcohol and smoking, but has vowed to keep touring.
He said: "I've had some health scares, I've had to really cut back on smoking and drinking and whatever. But it is what it is. I've had a good life, a good run. I do what I do still. I'm sure I'll die on the road, one way or another."
Motorhead are currently touring their 22nd album 'Bad Magic' and are scheduled for concerts across the US for the rest of Spetember before beginning their European dates in November.

Tom DeLonge wants a Blink-182 reunion.
Although the 39-year-old rocker hasn't spoken to his former bandmates, drummer Travis Barker and bassist Mark Hoppus, since he quit the band earlier this year, he is open to performing with them again.
Speaking to Billboard, he said: "I'm totally willing and interested in playing with those guys again.
"People ask me every single day, 'Go back, go back, go back'. And I tell people I haven't forgotten anything and I'm grateful for that band and for those guys in my life. And I think about that band every single day of my life - sometimes multiple times a day.
"I love those guys and I love the band and yeah, in the future, let's play together and figure it out or whatever."
However, Tom, who is releasing the EP '...Of Nightmares' with his band Angels & Airwaves later this week, claimed he had things he wants to do before a reunion occurs.
He said: "We just need time apart because we all want different things at this time. Those guys want to play the music and tour all the time, but I'm involved in some very big s**t and some very important stuff."

Stereophonics expected Stuart Cable to rejoin the band.
The drummer was fired from the group in 2003 due to his unreliability and wild partying but the remaining members of the band, frontman Kelly Jones and guitarist Richard Jones, were left devastated when he died after choking on his own vomit in 2012.
Kelly said: "[His death hit me] like a f***ing sledgehammer. He always said, 'I'll never make 40.'
"But we were getting so much back on friendly terms, I wouldn't have been surprised if he'd have ended up back in the band at some point. To me, we were three brothers."
Kelly has written a film called 'Graffiti on a Train', which is about a trio of Welsh youths, one of whom dies while surfing on a moving train, leaving his pals to travel to Europe on a journey of self discovery.
Though he intended the project to be fictional, he was stunned when his wife pointed out it was actually autobiographical.
He told the new issue of Q magazine: "She said, 'As much as you think you're writing about these characters, it's a version of what you went through.'"

Fifth Harmony have announced their first European tour.
The 'Worth It' hitmakers are "really excited" to return to the UK for two concerts in November, as part of their upcoming 'Reflection Tour'.
Member Ally Brooke Hernandez, 22, said: "We love Europe and our European Harmonizers who have always made us feel so welcome. We're really excited to be bringing our tour to the UK - it's going to be crazy!!"
The American girl group, which also includes members Dinah Jane Hansen, 18, Lauren Jauregui, 19, Normani Kordei, 19, and Camila Cabello, 18, will take to the stage on November 3, 2015 at London's Shepherd's Bush Empire and on November 4, 2015 at the Ritz in Manchester.
Tickets for all of their European gigs are set to go on sale this Friday (04.09.15).
The band, who rose to fame on 'The X Factor' USA in 2012, made their British debut on the UK version of the show last November and also previously performed at this year's sold-out Capital Summertime Ball at Wembley Arena in London, alongside One Direction, Little Mix, Ariana Grande, Ne-Yo and Jess Glynne.

Full Tour Dates:

26th October - Madrid, Spain, La Riviera
31st October - Amsterdam, Netherlands, Melkweg
3rd November - London, UK, Shepherd's Bush Empire
4th November - Manchester, UK, Ritz
8th November - Frankfurt, Germany, Gibson
9th November - Paris, France, Triano

Tom DeLonge hasn't spoken to his former bandmates since he quit Blink-182.
The 39-year-old rocker has confessed he hasn't been in touch with drummer Travis Barker and bassist Mark Hoppus since he decided to quit the band earlier this year.
He said: "We haven't spoken since all that s**t's gone down - but that's not un-normal. The Rolling Stones would go three years without talking to each other, then Mick [Jagger] and Keith [Richards] would be hugging and saying, 'F**k I missed you'. It's just how it works."
Although Tom has no plans to reunite with his fellow 'I Miss You' hitmakers anytime soon, he hasn't ruled out rejoining the band altogether.
He told NME magazine: "For me it's always a scheduling thing. At this period of my life, I have these 10 things that I'm doing. And the 10 things are very important to me and what I'm very passionate about right now - but i did this band thing for 25 years, so, give me a second, y'know! It's hard to be in a band because everyone's got different lives and priorities and if they don't match up, people get really angry and people get hurt and people get suspicious and that's myself included. That difficulty is what makes bands have an edge and have something to say. That's why Blink-182 works. If we were all hunky dory, it wouldn't be the same."
DeLonge - who is releasing the EP '...Of Nightmares' with his band Angels & Airwaves later this week - admitted he thinks Blink-182 will get back into the studio when the time is right.
He added: "It has to map up with everybody's life. I think if all the roads that we're travelling connect at the same intersection, which is usually a location and a date, then we're good."
However, Hoppus and Barker replaced DeLonge with Alkaline Trio frontman Matt Skiba earlier this year and announced plans to record new music with him.

Tyler, The Creator felt like a "criminal" and a "terrorist" when he was banned from entering the United Kingdom.
The 'Yonkers' rapper was denied entry into Britain last week after being told the home secretary had banned him for the next three to five years because lyrics from his past albums express "behaviours unacceptable in the UK".
Speaking about how he had to cancel a number of appearances, including those scheduled for Reading and Leeds festivals, Tyler said: "Monday was one of the s**ttiest days I've ever had. I was in a detention room; I felt like a criminal. And then [a Border Force officer] showed me lyrics from songs ... Literally, a paper with five lines of lyrics, and four were from 'Bastard' songs and one was from 'Tron Cat'. I never perform those songs. Thirty minutes later, the guy comes in, he gives me a paper, and he says, 'OK, they're not letting you in the country.' The paper said I couldn't come at all, saying that I support homophobia and acts of terrorism, and [it said] some other stuff. I'm just like, one, none of that is true, and two, I was here seven weeks ago. I rented out a movie theatre for a show. I did something really awesome, and it was no problem."
The 24-year-old star also explained that he wrote the songs from the mindset of an alter-ego, something the documents he was presented with recognised.
He told The Guardian newspaper: "The thing that irks me about it is that the paper saying I am denied entry to the UK clearly states that these songs were written from [the perspective of] an alter ego - which means they obviously did some research on these songs that they're detaining me for. So the argument is right there! This song is written from an alter ego - I'm not like this! You could watch any interview and see my personality, see the guy I am. I wouldn't hurt a fly."
And Tyler has admitted he's worried this is just the start of over the top attempts to censor artists.
He added: "This is only gonna open a door for other people to get banned. And then they're gonna go after video games, and then they're gonna go after movies, and we're gonna live in such a sensitive world."