Beyond the Season | ||||
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Released | August 25, 1992 | |||
Studio | Jack's Tracks (Nashville, Tennessee) | |||
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Length | 33:48 | |||
Label | Liberty | |||
Producer | Allen Reynolds | |||
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Entertainment Weekly | C+ [4] |
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Beyond the Season is the first Christmas album by American country music artist Garth Brooks. It was released on August 25, 1992, by Liberty Records, and peaked at number 2 on both of Billboard magazine's Billboard 200 and Top Country Albums sales charts that year. Beyond the Season was also the best-selling Christmas/holiday album of 1992 in the United States with sales of 1,542,000 copies for the year according to Nielsen SoundScan. [7] As of November 2014, the album has cumulative sales of 2,650,000 copies in the U.S. and is the seventeenth best-selling Christmas/holiday album in the U.S. during the entire SoundScan era (March 1991 – present). [8]
On November 15, 1995, Beyond the Season was certified Triple Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America for shipment of 3 million copies in the United States. [9]
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Go Tell It on the Mountain" | Traditional | 3:30 |
2. | "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen" | Traditional | 2:34 |
3. | "The Old Man's Back in Town" | Garth Brooks, Larry Bastian, Randy Taylor | 2:34 |
4. | "The Gift" | Stephanie Davis | 4:43 |
5. | "Unto You This Night" | Rex Benson, Steve Gillette | 3:16 |
6. | "White Christmas" | Irving Berlin | 2:55 |
7. | "The Friendly Beasts" | Traditional | 3:32 |
8. | "Santa Looked a Lot Like Daddy" | Buck Owens, Don Rich | 2:29 |
9. | "Silent Night" | Traditional | 3:46 |
10. | "Mary's Dream" | Mark Casstevens, Bobby Wood | 0:50 |
11. | "What Child Is This?" | Traditional | 3:27 |
Total length: | 33:36 |
Beyond the Season peaked at #2 on the U.S. Billboard 200, and on the Top Country Albums. In November 1995, Beyond the Season was certified 3 x Platinum by the RIAA.
Weekly charts
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Year | Single | Peak positions |
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US Country | ||
1998 | "Santa Looked a Lot Like Daddy" | 41 |
1999 | "Go Tell it on the Mountain" | 72 |
2000 | "White Christmas" | 65 |
"God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" | 69 | |
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Canada (Music Canada) [16] | 2× Platinum | 200,000^ |
United States (RIAA) [17] | 3× Platinum | 2,650,000 [8] |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |
Backing Vocals (Tracks 1 & 11)
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