This Is Gospel

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| name = This Is Gospel

| cover = ThisIsGospelCover.png

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| type = single

| artist = Panic! at the Disco

| album = Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die!

| released = August 12, 2013

| recorded = November 2012{{snd}}March 2013

| genre = {{flatlist|

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| length = 3:07

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| producer = Butch Walker

| prev_title = Miss Jackson

| prev_year = 2013

| next_title = Girls / Girls / Boys

| next_year = 2013

| misc = {{External music video|{{YouTube|tGE381tbQa8|"This Is Gospel"}}|header=Music videos}}{{External music video|{{YouTube|jO2_3pVd5k0|"This Is Gospel" (Piano version)|link=no}}|header=no}}

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"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.{{cite magazine |url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2013/hot-rock-songs |title=Hot Rock Songs: Year End 2013 |magazine=Billboard |accessdate=April 21, 2015}}

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.{{cite journal |url=https://www.nme.com/news/panic-at-the-disco/71984 |title=Panic! At The Disco premiere 'This Is Gospel' video – watch |journal=NME |location=London |date=August 12, 2013 |accessdate=April 1, 2014}} It was directed by Daniel "Cloud" Campos.{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5x5P7AJ4iyo|title=Panic! At The Disco: This Is Gospel (Beyond The Video) |work=YouTube |date=27 September 2013 |accessdate=April 21, 2015}} 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
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{{single chart\|Billboardcanadianhot100\|95\|artist=Panic at the Disco 2\|rowheader=true\|access-date=September 10, 2021}}
scope="row"\| UK Singles (Official Charts Company){{cite web\|url=http://www.zobbel.de/cluk/131005cluk.txt\|title=CHART: CLUK Update 5.10.2013 (wk39)\|publisher=zobbel.de\|accessdate=January 11, 2015}} \| align="center"\| 179
{{single chart\|Billboardhot100\|87\|artist=Panic at the Disco 2\|access-date=September 30, 2013\|rowheader=true}}
{{single chart\|Billboardrocksongs\|12\|artist=Panic at the Disco 2\|access-date=September 30, 2013\|rowheader=true}}
{{single chart\|Billboardrockairplay\|45\|artist=Panic at the Disco 2\|access-date=December 21, 2014\|rowheader=true}}

=Year-end charts=

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Chart (2013) ! Position
scope="row"\| US Hot Rock Songs (Billboard){{cite magazine \|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2013/hot-rock-songs \|title=Hot Rock Songs: Year End 2013 \|magazine=Billboard \|accessdate=December 13, 2013}} \| style="text-align:center;"\| 87

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Chart (2013)

! Position

scope="row"| US Hot Rock Songs (Billboard){{cite magazine |url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2013/hot-rock-songs |title=Hot Rock Songs: Year End 2013 |magazine=Billboard |accessdate=December 13, 2013}}

| style="text-align:center;"| 87

Certifications

{{Certification Table Entry|region=Canada|artist=Panic! At the Disco|title=This Is Gospel|type=single|award=Gold|relyear=2013|certyear=2018}}

{{Certification Table Entry|region=United Kingdom|title=This Is Gospel|artist=Panic at the Disco|type=single|award=Gold|relyear=2013|certyear=2022|id=14833-1931-1|access-date=April 29, 2022}}

{{Certification Table Entry|region=United States|title=This Is Gospel|artist=Panic! At the Disco|type=single|award=Platinum|number=3|relyear=2013|certyear=2023|access-date=June 6, 2023}}

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Release history

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scope="col"\| Country ! scope="col"\| Date ! scope="col"\| Format ! scope="col"\| Label
scope="row" rowspan="2"\| United States \| August 12, 2013 \| Digital download{{cite web \|url=https://play.google.com/store/music/album/Panic_At_The_Disco_This_Is_Gospel?id=B3gqy3czp7ficzqecwmgmacxu7u \|title=Panic! At The Disco: This Is Gospel \|publisher=Google Play. Google \|accessdate=April 1, 2014}} \| rowspan="2"\| Decaydance Records, Fueled by Ramen
February 4, 2014 \| Alternative radio{{cite web \|url=http://www.allaccess.com/mail/archive/eweekly/alternative/2014-1-28.html \|title=Alternative E-Weekly \|publisher=All Access Music Group \|accessdate=June 4, 2014 \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140903103003/http://www.allaccess.com/mail/archive/eweekly/alternative/2014-1-28.html \|url-status=live \|archivedate=September 3, 2014}}

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scope="col"| Country

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scope="row" rowspan="2"| United States

| August 12, 2013

| Digital download{{cite web |url=https://play.google.com/store/music/album/Panic_At_The_Disco_This_Is_Gospel?id=B3gqy3czp7ficzqecwmgmacxu7u |title=Panic! At The Disco: This Is Gospel |publisher=Google Play. Google |accessdate=April 1, 2014}}

| rowspan="2"| Decaydance Records, Fueled by Ramen

February 4, 2014

| Alternative radio{{cite web |url=http://www.allaccess.com/mail/archive/eweekly/alternative/2014-1-28.html |title=Alternative E-Weekly |publisher=All Access Music Group |accessdate=June 4, 2014 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140903103003/http://www.allaccess.com/mail/archive/eweekly/alternative/2014-1-28.html |url-status=live |archivedate=September 3, 2014}}

References

Category:Panic! at the Disco songs

Category:2013 singles

Category:2013 songs

Category:Songs written by Brendon Urie

Category:Songs written by Dallon Weekes

Category:Songs written by Jake Sinclair (musician)

Category:Song recordings produced by Butch Walker

Category:Fueled by Ramen singles