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“Outside” by Aaron Lewis featuring Fred Durst

Featuring Fred Durst

“Outside” by Aaron Lewis featuring Fred Durst appears on 22 radio countdowns from 20 stations between 2000 and 2022. Its best result is #1 on the WBCN Top 104 Songs of Y2K, and it was voted number one on two countdowns in total. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #35 alternative song of 2000, #3,844 alternative song of all time and #241 of the '00s.

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Staind - Outside Aaron Lewis & Fred Durst (1999 Family Values Tour)

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Aaron Lewis has called "Outside" an accidental phenomenon, and the story bears him out. Alone on a stage in Biloxi, Mississippi, on the 1999 Family Values Tour, singing and playing guitar, he was asked to do a song solo and grabbed, at the last minute, one he'd been working on with J-CAT, his acoustic side project, since Staind's early days. Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst added backing vocals, and Lewis finished the lyrics on the spot as he sang.

That live recording of the power ballad took off on American rock radio early in 2001. Its roots ran deep: back when every dollar Staind made went into the band, Lewis played acoustic sets two or three times a week just to have something to live on. A studio version, produced by Josh Abraham, arrived in May 2001, the second single off Break the Cycle, Staind's third album, and charted internationally.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

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Year-end countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
2000 26 KROQ Los Angeles, CA KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 2000 107
2000 21 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana 91X Top 91 Songs of 2000 91
2000 31 Live 105 San Francisco, CA Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 2000 105
2000 79 Q101 Chicago, IL Q101 Top 101 Songs of 2000 101
2000 39 WHFS Washington, DC / Baltimore, MD WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 2000 100
2000 20 K-Rock New York, NY K-Rock Top 92.3 Songs of 2000 93
2000 57 WFNX Boston, MA WFNX Top 100 Songs of 2000 100
2000 77 107.7 The End Seattle, WA The End Top 107 Songs of 2000 107
2000 63 89X Detroit, MI / Windsor, ON 89X Top 89 Songs of 2000 89
2000 6 WCCC The Rock Hartford, CT WCCC Top 106 Songs of 2000 106
2000 39 The Edge Phoenix, AZ KEDJ Millennium Meltdown Countdown 2001 50
2000 1 WBCN Boston, MA WBCN Top 104 Songs of Y2K 102
2000 12 103.3 The Edge Buffalo, NY 103.3 The Edge Top 103 of 2000 103
2001 12 Q101 Chicago, IL Q101 Top 101 Songs of 2001 101
2001 15 CFNY 102.1 The Edge Toronto, ON CFNY Top 30 Songs of 2001 30
2001 11 The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2001 99
2001 83 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) WEQX Top 102.7 of 2001 103
2001 1 99X Atlanta, GA 99X Top 99 Songs of 2001 99
2001 14 Radio & Records United States (national airplay chart) Radio & Records Top 100 Songs of 2001 100

All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
2001 39 WBRU WBRU Modern Rock Top 500 (2001) 500
2002 18 The Buzz The Buzz Top Songs of All-Time (Labor Day 2002, partial) 144
2022 357 101X 101X 500 (2022) 498

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