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'Survival', the Muse single which will act as the official song of this year's Olympic Games has been named as Gigwise readers favourite song of the Summer.

The track beat off stiff competition from the likes of Lana Del Rey, Azealia Banks, Coldplay and Rihanna in our poll, which has been running for the past few weeks.

Even Gotye and his huge smash hit 'Somebody That I Used To Know' could not stand in the way of Muse fans having their voice heard.

You can expect to hear 'Survival' a whole lot more in the coming weeks with the song set to be played inside the Olympic stadium throughout the Games, including when athletes collect their medals.

The song is taken from Muse's new album 'The 2nd Law', due for release in September.

Muse premiered the track on 28 June 2012. Matt Bellamy recently revealed the track was originally conceived as a collaboration with an unnamed pianist.

"I got approached about a year ago to write this song for the Olympics and we were going to work on it with someone, I can't say who, a good pianist though," he said in a recent interview with the BBC. "So I wrote this song with that in mind, that's why it's got a lot of guitar and piano at the same time, which normally I don't do. That went away for some reason though.

"It sounded like it was going to be a good song anyway, at that time it didn't have lyrics, it was just a big musical idea, involving a choir and stuff.

"So as time went on and we got asked to play the opening ceremony, we thought 'We've got to play this'. We got the Olympic people in to listen and they loved it."

The full top five songs of the Summer 2012 as voted by Gigwise readers is as follows:

1. Muse - Survival
2. Lana Del Rey - National Anthem
3. Gotye feat. Kimbra - Somebody That I Used To Know
4. Azealia Banks - 212
5. Coldplay & Rihanna - Princess Of China.

Stream Muse - Survival below, now.

Photos: How Muse made the Olympics cool.