"Outrun the Sun" is an English language

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 song by the Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 urban duo Madcon

Madcon

Madcon is a Norwegian Hip Hop duo formed in 1992 by Yosef Wolde-Mariam and Tshawe Baqwa.They are well known from the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 Interval Act, in which they performed their hit song "Glow"...

 featuring vocals from Maad*Moiselle. It is the third single released from their fourth album Contraband

Contraband (Madcon album)

Contraband is the fourth studio album by Norwegian urban duo Madcon. It was released on 1 November 2010. It peaked at number two on the Norwegian Albums Chart, becoming the group's highest-charting album...

. The song was written by Jonas Jeberg, Terence Abney, Tshawe Baqwa, Yosef Wolde-Mariam, Marcella Brailsford, Kasper Larsen, Ole Brodersen. It was released on the 19th November 2010.

The song entered the World Singles Official Top 100 and Airplay World Official Top 100 charts in May 2011. Glow and Freaky Like Me were still charting.

Track listing

Credits and personnel

• Lead vocals – Madcon and Maad Moiselle
• Lyrics
  Lyrics
  Lyrics are a set of words that make up a song. The writer of lyrics is a lyricist or lyrist. The meaning of lyrics can either be explicit or implicit. Some lyrics are abstract, almost unintelligible, and, in such cases, their explication emphasizes form, articulation, meter, and symmetry of...
  
   – Terence Abney, Tshawe Baqwa, Yosef Wolde-Mariam, Marcella Brailsford, Kasper Larsen, Ole Brodersen
• Producer – Jonas Jeberg
• Label – Cosmos Music Norway

Charts

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Chart (2010/11)	Peak position
Germany (Media Control)	27

Release history

Country	Date	Format	Label
Norway	19 November 2010	Digital download Music download A music download is the transferral of music from an Internet-facing computer or website to a user's local computer. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyright material without permission or payment...	Cosmos Music Norway
	14 March 2011