Song · Twenty One Pilots
“The Outside” by Twenty One Pilots
From the album Scaled and Icy (2021)
“The Outside” by Twenty One Pilots appears on 5 radio countdowns from 4 stations between 2021 and 2022. It was first released in 2021 on the album Scaled and Icy. Its best result is #10 on the X96 Top 50 Songs of 2022. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #25 alternative song of 2022 and #121 of the '20s.
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"The Outside" closed out the singles from Scaled and Icy, Twenty One Pilots' sixth studio album, from 2021, going out through Fueled by Ramen in late November as the fourth and last of them. Frontman Tyler Joseph wrote it alone and produced it himself, with Adam Hawkins mixing, and its synth-pop gloss did nothing to stop it becoming the duo's tenth song to top the US Alternative Songs chart.
The video, directed by Andrew Donoho and released in March 2022, picks up where the one for "Saturday" left off and wades back into the mythology of 2018's Trench: a sea dragon, the nine bishops of Dema, the band's made-up dystopia, putting to death Keons, the bishop who had been steering the beast, and Joseph washing ashore on an island called Voldsøy, just off the continent of Trench.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 80 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 2021 | 91 |
| 2021 | 45 | ALT 104.5 Philadelphia, PA | ALT 104.5 Top 50.5 Songs of 2021 | 51 |
| 2022 | 11 | 88.3 The Sting Cleveland, OH | 88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 88 Songs of 2022 | 88 |
| 2022 | 22 | ALT 104.5 Philadelphia, PA | ALT 104.5 Top 50.5 Songs of 2022 | 51 |
| 2022 | 10 | X96 Salt Lake City, UT | X96 Top 50 Songs of 2022 | 50 |
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