Nico and the Niners


"Nico and the Niners" is a song written and recorded by the American musical duo Twenty One Pilots. It was released on July 11, 2018, as the second of the lead singles from their fifth studio album Trench, alongside "Jumpsuit". The song peaked at number 79 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Composition

"Nico and the Niners" is a reggae, rap, rock and psychedelic song with a length of three minutes and forty-seven seconds. It was the first song to be completed off Trench. The song is played in an A minor key, and at 140 beats per minute.

Music video

A music video for "Nico and the Niners" was released on July 26, 2018. It was directed by Andrew Donoho, who had directed all the music videos from the Trench trilogy, and was filmed in Kharkiv and Kyiv, Ukraine.
The video shows Clancy packing a backpack and meeting the Torchbearer in Dema's faded city square, where they shake hands before joining a group of rebels laden with yellow and perform the song. The video veers between that mysterious thread and the mystical activities of malevolent red-hooded robed figures. At the very end of the video, two children discover a Bandito's lost gear, but turn to see the nine bishops, the leaders of Dema, walking towards them.

Commercial performance

"Nico and the Niners" made its debut on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart at No. 6 and Hot Rock Songs at No. 9 with 19,000 sold. The song peaked at No. 79 on the Billboard Hot 100, and peaked at No. 7 on the Hot Rock Songs chart. The song also peaked at No. 88 on the UK Singles Chart.

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