Song · Staind
“Outside” by Staind
From the album Break the Cycle (2001)
“Outside” by Staind appears on 36 radio countdowns from 20 stations between 2001 and 2026. It was first released in 2001 on the album Break the Cycle. Its best result is #1 on the K-Rock Top 92.3 Songs of 2001, and it was voted number one on two countdowns in total. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #42 alternative song of 2001, #1,680 alternative song of all time and #436 of the '00s.
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Staind's "Outside" was finished in front of a crowd, two years before it turned up on Break the Cycle in 2001. At the 1999 Family Values Tour stop in Biloxi, Mississippi, Aaron Lewis was asked to play something solo, and at the last moment he reached for a song he had been working up with J-CAT, his acoustic side project, writing the rest of the words on the spot while Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst sang backup.
That live take was all over American rock radio by early 2001, and a studio version, produced by Josh Abraham for Elektra, followed "It's Been Awhile" as the next single off the band's third album that May and charted around the world. Lewis wrote it alone and has called its success an accident: he'd been playing it at acoustic gigs since Staind's early days, two or three times a week, to earn enough to live on.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Classic Rock
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 14 | KROQ Los Angeles, CA | KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 2001 | 107 |
| 2001 | 6 | Live 105 San Francisco, CA | Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 2001 | 106 |
| 2001 | 1 | K-Rock New York, NY | K-Rock Top 92.3 Songs of 2001 | 93 |
| 2001 | 79 | WFNX Boston, MA | WFNX Top 100 Songs of 2001 | 100 |
| 2001 | 4 | 107.7 The End Seattle, WA | The End Top 107 Songs of 2001 | 107 |
| 2001 | 1 | 89X Detroit, MI / Windsor, ON | 89X Top 89 Songs of 2001 | 89 |
| 2001 | 27 | WHTG Monmouth-Ocean, NJ | G106.3 Top 106 Songs of 2001 | 106 |
| 2001 | 44 | Radio & Records United States (national airplay chart) | Radio & Records Top 100 Songs of 2001 | 100 |
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