Home for Christmas (NSYNC album)

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Home for Christmas
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Studio album by
NSYNC
ReleasedNovember 10, 1998 (1998-11-10)
Recorded1998
Genre
Length55:36
Label
Producer
NSYNC chronology
'N Sync
(1997)		Home for Christmas
(1998)		 The Winter Album
(1998)
Singles from Home for Christmas
  1. "Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays"
    Released: November 24, 1998 (1998-11-24)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Entertainment Weekly C [2]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [3]

Home for Christmas is the first Christmas album and second studio album by American boy band NSYNC. The album was released, exclusively in the United States, on November 10, 1998, by RCA Records following the success of their self-titled debut album. On October 27, 1999, Home for Christmas was certified Double Platinum by the RIAA for shipment of two million copies in the United States. [4] [5] Home for Christmas was released on September 30, 2002 in the United Kingdom as The Meaning of Christmas on Ariola Express with an altered track listing. [6]

Contents

"Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays" was released as a single in the United States, and in Germany as well, due to its inclusion on the group's German seasonal album, The Winter Album . [7] As of December 2014, Home for Christmas has sold 2.8 million copies in the United States, making it the fifteenth best-selling Christmas/holiday album in the U.S. since Nielsen SoundScan started tracking music sales in 1991. [8]

Critical reception

During its time of release in 1998, Home for Christmas was met with lukewarm to negative reviews from critics who derided the song lyrics as “sentimental-sounding non sequiturs” [2] and contended the group did not have the same charisma of fellow pop groups like the Backstreet Boys or the Spice Girls. [1] At Rate Your Music, a website where users submit reviews, Home for Christmas was given a very low rating: 1.43 out of 5. [9] However, critics also praised the album for having eleven original tracks, as well as for its “slickly produced adult contemporary ballads and lite dance-pop”. [1]

In the years since, the album has been commended for the strength of its five-part harmonies, displayed in songs like the group’s a capella of “O Holy Night.” [10] [11] [12] It is also known as a rare NSYNC album that gives Chris Kirkpatrick, Joey Fatone, and Lance Bass vocal opportunities to shine. [10]

Track listing

Most of the lead vocals are provided by Justin Timberlake and JC Chasez.


Home for Christmas — Standard version
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Home for Christmas"
  • Gary Haase
  • Rozz Morehead
  • John Poppo
  • Danny Madden [a]
4:28
2."Under My Tree"
  • Shelley Peiken
  • Guy Roche
Veit Renn4:32
3."I Never Knew the Meaning of Christmas"
  • Struken
  • Rogers
4:45
4."Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays"
Renn4:12
5."The Christmas Song"
Gary Carolla3:16
6."I Guess It's Christmas Time"
  • Peiken
  • Peter S. Bliss
Carolla3:52
7."All I Want Is You This Christmas"
Renn3:43
8."The First Noel"TraditionalCarolla3:28
9."In Love on Christmas"
  • Rory Bennett
  • Cedric Hailey
  • Joel Hailey
Renn4:06
10."It's Christmas"
  • Carolla
  • Ries
4:29
11."O Holy Night"TraditionalRobin Wiley3:33
12."Love's In Our Hearts On Christmas Day"HaaseRenn3:54
13."The Only Gift"
  • Maria Christensen
  • Jeff Franzell
Renn3:51
14."Kiss Me at Midnight"
  • Renn
  • Kenny Lamb
Renn3:28
The Meaning of Christmas — Standard version
No.TitleLength
1."I Guess It's Christmas Time" 
2."Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays" 
3."I Never Knew the Meaning of Christmas" 
4."Love's in Our Hearts on Christmas Day" 
5."Home for Christmas" 
6."In Love on Christmas" 
7."The Only Gift" 
8."It's Christmas" 
9."All I Want Is You This Christmas" 
10."God Must Have Spent a Little More Time on You" (Remix) 
11."Kiss Me at Midnight" 
12."The Christmas Song" 
13."The First Noel" 
14."O Holy Night" 
Notes

Personnel

Credits adapted from album’s liner notes. [13]

NSYNC

Additional personnel

Charts

Certifications and sales

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada) [20] Platinum100,000^
United States (RIAA) [21] 2× Platinum2,000,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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