Beyond the Season

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Beyond the Season
Garth Brooks Beyond the Season.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedAugust 25, 1992
StudioJack's Tracks Recording Studio (Nashville, Tennessee).
Genre
Length33:48
Label Liberty
Producer Allen Reynolds
Garth Brooks chronology
Ropin' the Wind
(1991)
Beyond the Season
(1992)
The Chase
(1992)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Christgau's Consumer Guide Rating-Christgau-dud.svg [3]
Entertainment Weekly C+ [4]
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The Rolling Stone Album Guide Star full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [6]

Beyond the Season is the first Christmas album by American country music artist Garth Brooks. It was released on August 25, 1992, however it was the first album on 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]

Contents

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]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Go Tell It on the Mountain"Traditional3:30
2."God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen"Traditional2:34
3."The Old Man's Back in Town"Garth Brooks, Larry Bastian, Randy Taylor2:34
4."The Gift" Stephanie Davis 4:43
5."Unto You This Night"Rex Benson, Steve Gillette3:16
6."White Christmas" Irving Berlin 2:55
7."The Friendly Beasts"Traditional3:32
8."Santa Looked a Lot Like Daddy" Buck Owens, Don Rich 2:29
9."Silent Night"Traditional3:46
10."Mary's Dream"Mark Casstevens, Bobby Wood0:50
11."What Child Is This?"Traditional3:27
Total length:33:36

Chart performance

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.

Singles

YearSinglePeak positions
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

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada) [16] 2× Platinum200,000^
United States (RIAA) [17] 3× Platinum2,650,000 [8]

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

Personnel

Backing Vocals (Tracks 1 & 11)

Production

  1. "About.com review". Archived from the original on 2007-03-13. Retrieved 2006-11-04.
  2. AllMusic review
  3. Robert Christgau Consumer Guide
  4. Entertainment Weekly review
  5. Album reviews at CD Universe
  6. Brackett, Nathan; Christian Hoard (2004). The Rolling Stone Album Guide . New York City, New York: Simon and Schuster. p.  105. ISBN   0-7432-0169-8. rolling stone garth brooks album guide.
  7. Paul Grein (October 29, 2013). "Chart Watch Extra: What Will Be This Year's Top Christmas Album?". Chart Watch. Yahoo.
  8. 1 2 "The Gifts That Keep on Giving: Biggest Radio and Album Hits of the Holidays". Billboard . Prometheus Global Media. December 1, 2014. Retrieved December 1, 2014.
  9. "RIAA Searchable Database". Recording Industry Association of America . Archived from the original on 2014-12-03. Retrieved 2014-12-02.
  10. "Garth Brooks Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved September 8, 2021.
  11. "Garth Brooks Chart History (Top Country Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved September 8, 2021.
  12. "Top Billboard 200 Albums – Year-End 1992". Billboard. Retrieved September 8, 2021.
  13. "Top Country Albums – Year-End 1992". Billboard. Retrieved September 8, 2021.
  14. "Top Billboard 200 Albums – Year-End 1993". Billboard. Retrieved November 5, 2021.
  15. "Top Country Albums – Year-End 1993". Billboard. Retrieved November 5, 2021.
  16. "Canadian album certifications – Garth Brooks – Beyond the Season". Music Canada . Retrieved June 9, 2020.
  17. "American album certifications – Garth Brooks – Beyond the Season". Recording Industry Association of America . Retrieved June 9, 2020.

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