This Is Gospel

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"This Is Gospel"
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Single by Panic! at the Disco
from the album Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die!
ReleasedAugust 12, 2013
RecordedNovember 2012 – March 2013
Length3:07
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Butch Walker
Panic! at the Disco singles chronology
"Miss Jackson"
(2013) 		"This Is Gospel"
(2013) 		"Girls / Girls / Boys"
(2013)

"This Is Gospel" is a song by American rock band Panic! at the Disco. It was released as the second single from their fourth studio album, Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die!, on August 12, 2013. A music video for the song, directed by Daniel Cloud Campos, was also released on the same day. It peaked at number 87 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.[1]

Music video[]

The music video for "This Is Gospel" was released on August 12, 2013, coinciding with the song's single release, through Fueled by Ramen's YouTube channel.[2] It was directed by Daniel "Cloud" Campos.[3] As of April 2019 the video has over 175 million views on YouTube.

The video features Brendon at the moment when surgeons check his injuries. As they almost start to open his body, he removes the air mask and begins to fight, but tortured. A few seconds later, he is tricked by people and dressed up nicely; however, he is buried alive (with water) and tries to swim in the endless water and break a cardboard wall. Eventually, the scene returns to the surgery, and the surgeons discover that rope is in his body; they used it but he runs away, but pays a life due to suffocation and losing breath from the ropes on his throat. The music video for the band's song "Emperor's New Clothes" is a direct continuation of this video, just as the music video for the band's song "Say Amen (Saturday Night)" is the prequel to this video.

The Music video to the Piano version consists of Urie sitting at a piano in an empty lot and performing the song while streamers, confetti, and ribbons are dropped on him and the piano. Eventually large amounts of water balloons, milk, eggs, noodles, pickles, chicken, and various other discarded foods are dropped onto the piano. As Urie walks away at the end of the song, buckets of blue and purple water are dumped on him. The video was uploaded to Fueled by Ramen's YouTube channel on May 14, 2014.

Charts[]

Weekly charts[]

Chart (2013–2014) Peak
position
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[4] 179
US Billboard Hot 100[5] 87
US Hot Rock & Alternative Songs (Billboard)[6] 12
US Rock Airplay (Billboard)[7] 45
US Alternative Airplay (Billboard)[8] 25

Year-end charts[]

Chart (2013) Position
US Hot Rock Songs (Billboard)[9] 87

Certifications[]

Region Certification Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada)[10] Gold 40,000double-dagger
United Kingdom (BPI)[11] Silver 200,000^
United States (RIAA)[12] 2× Platinum 2,000,000double-dagger

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.
double-dagger Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history[]

Country Date Format Label
United States August 12, 2013 Digital download[13] Decaydance Records, Fueled by Ramen
February 4, 2014 Alternative radio[14]

References[]

  1. ^ "Hot Rock Songs: Year End 2013". Billboard. Retrieved April 21, 2015.
  2. ^ "Panic! At The Disco premiere 'This Is Gospel' video – watch". NME. London. August 12, 2013. Retrieved April 1, 2014.
  3. ^ "Panic! At The Disco: This Is Gospel (Beyond The Video)". YouTube. Retrieved April 21, 2015.
  4. ^ "CHART: CLUK Update 5.10.2013 (wk39)". zobbel.de. Retrieved January 11, 2015.
  5. ^ "Panic at the Disco Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved September 30, 2013.
  6. ^ "Panic at the Disco Chart History (Hot Rock & Alternative Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved September 30, 2013.
  7. ^ "Panic at the Disco Chart History (Rock Airplay)". Billboard. Retrieved December 21, 2014.
  8. ^ "Panic at the Disco Chart History (Alternative Airplay)". Billboard. Retrieved May 16, 2014.
  9. ^ "Hot Rock Songs: Year End 2013". Billboard. Retrieved December 13, 2013.
  10. ^ "Canadian single certifications – Panic! At the Disco – This Is Gospel". Music Canada.
  11. ^ "British single certifications – Panic! At the Disco – This Is Gospel". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved March 9, 2018.Select singles in the Format field. Select Silver in the Certification field. Type This Is Gospel in the "Search BPI Awards" field and then press Enter.
  12. ^ "American single certifications – Panic! At the Disco – This Is Gospel". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved December 12, 2018.
  13. ^ "Panic! At The Disco: This Is Gospel". Google Play. Google. Retrieved April 1, 2014.
  14. ^ "Alternative E-Weekly". All Access Music Group. Archived from the original on June 3, 2014. Retrieved June 4, 2014.


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