Beyond the Season

Beyond the Season (stylized as Beyºnd the Seasºn) is the first Christmas album and fourth studio 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]

Beyond the Season
Studio album by
Garth Brooks
ReleasedAugust 25, 1992
StudioJack's Tracks Recording Studio
GenreCountry, Christmas
Length33:48
LabelLiberty
ProducerAllen Reynolds
Garth Brooks chronology
Ropin' the Wind
(1991)		 Beyond the Season
(1992)		 The Chase
(1992)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
About.com[1]
AllMusic[2]
Christgau's Consumer Guide[3]
Entertainment WeeklyC+[4]
Q[5]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[6]

On November 15, 1995, Beyond the Season was certified Triple Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America for shipment of three million copies in the United States.[9]

Track listing
No.TitleLength
1."Go Tell It on the Mountain"3:30
2."God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen"2:34
3."The Old Man's Back in Town"2:34
4."The Gift"4:43
5."Unto You This Night"3:16
6."White Christmas"2:55
7."The Friendly Beasts"3:32
8."Santa Looked a Lot Like Daddy"2:29
9."Silent Night"3:46
10."Mary's Dream"00:50
11."What Child Is This?"3:27
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
Year Single Peak 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
Region CertificationCertified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada)[11] 2× Platinum 200,000^
United States (RIAA)[12] 3× Platinum 2,650,000[8]

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

Personnel
  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. "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. https://www.billboard.com/music/garth-brooks/chart-history/
  11. "Canadian album certifications – Garth Brooks – Beyond the Season". Music Canada. Retrieved June 9, 2020.
  12. "American album certifications – Garth Brooks – Beyond the Season". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved June 9, 2020. If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Album, then click SEARCH. 
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