This Is Gospel

"This Is Gospel"
Single by Panic! at the Disco
from the album Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die!
Released	August 12, 2013
Recorded	November 2012 – March 2013
Genre	Pop rock[1] emo[2]
Length	3:07
Label	Decaydance Fueled by Ramen
Songwriter(s)	Brendon Urie Dallon Weekes Jake Sinclair
Producer(s)	Butch Walker
Panic! at the Disco singles chronology
"Miss Jackson" (2013) "This Is Gospel" (2013) "Girls / Girls / Boys" (2013)
Music video
"This Is Gospel" on YouTube
Music video
"This Is Gospel (piano version)" on YouTube

"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.^[3]

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.^[4] It was directed by Daniel "Cloud" Campos.^[5] As of May 2024, the video has 223 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
Canada (Canadian Hot 100)[6]	95
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[7]	179
US Billboard Hot 100[8]	87
US Hot Rock & Alternative Songs (Billboard)[9]	12
US Rock Airplay (Billboard)[10]	45

Year-end charts

Chart (2013)	Position
US Hot Rock Songs (Billboard)[11]	87

Certifications

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada)[12]	Gold	40,000^‡
United Kingdom (BPI)[13]	Gold	400,000^‡
United States (RIAA)[14]	3× Platinum	3,000,000^‡
^‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history

Country	Date	Format	Label
United States	August 12, 2013	Digital download[15]	Decaydance Records, Fueled by Ramen
	February 4, 2014	Alternative radio[16]

References

1. Tucknott, Janelle. "Album Review: Panic! At The Disco – Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die!". Renowned for Sound. Retrieved May 31, 2022.
2. Shoemaker, Whitney (December 19, 2019). "The Best Emo Songs Of The Decade That Defined The 2010'S". Alternative Press. Retrieved May 31, 2022.
3. "Hot Rock Songs: Year End 2013". Billboard. Retrieved April 21, 2015.
4. "Panic! At The Disco premiere 'This Is Gospel' video – watch". NME. London. August 12, 2013. Retrieved April 1, 2014.
5. "Panic! At The Disco: This Is Gospel (Beyond The Video)". YouTube. 27 September 2013. Retrieved April 21, 2015.
6. "Panic at the Disco 2 Chart History (Canadian Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved September 10, 2021.
7. "CHART: CLUK Update 5.10.2013 (wk39)". zobbel.de. Retrieved January 11, 2015.
8. "Panic at the Disco 2 Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved September 30, 2013.
9. "Panic at the Disco 2 Chart History (Hot Rock & Alternative Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved September 30, 2013.
10. "Panic at the Disco 2 Chart History (Rock Airplay)". Billboard. Retrieved December 21, 2014.
11. "Hot Rock Songs: Year End 2013". Billboard. Retrieved December 13, 2013.
12. "Canadian single certifications – Panic! At the Disco – This Is Gospel". Music Canada.
13. "British single certifications – Panic at the Disco – This Is Gospel". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved April 29, 2022.
14. "American single certifications – Panic! At the Disco – This Is Gospel". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved June 6, 2023.
15. "Panic! At The Disco: This Is Gospel". Google Play. Google. Retrieved April 1, 2014.
16. "Alternative E-Weekly". All Access Music Group. Archived from the original on September 3, 2014. Retrieved June 4, 2014.