Beyond the Season
Encyclopedia
Beyond the Season is the first Christmas
album
by American country music
artist Garth Brooks
. It was released on August 25, 1992, 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
, and has sold a total of 2,649,000 copies in the U.S. according to Nielsen/SoundScan
.
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.
, and on the Top Country Albums. In November 1995, Beyond the Season was certified 3 x Platinum by the RIAA.
Christmas
Christmas or Christmas Day is an annual holiday generally celebrated on December 25 by billions of people around the world. It is a Christian feast that commemorates the birth of Jesus Christ, liturgically closing the Advent season and initiating the season of Christmastide, which lasts twelve days...
album
Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...
by American country music
Country music
Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...
artist Garth Brooks
Garth Brooks
Troyal Garth Brooks , best known as Garth Brooks, is an American country music artist who helped make country music a worldwide phenomenon. His eponymous first album was released in 1989 and peaked at number 2 in the US country album chart while climbing to number 13 on the Billboard 200 album chart...
. It was released on August 25, 1992, and peaked at number 2 on both of Billboard
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...
magazine's Billboard 200
Billboard 200
The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...
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
Best-selling Christmas/Holiday albums in the United States
This page shows the best-selling Christmas albums in the United States. It includes artists from all over the world, but it only includes sales in the United States of America....
, and has sold a total of 2,649,000 copies in the U.S. according to Nielsen/SoundScan
Nielsen SoundScan
Nielsen SoundScan is an information and sales tracking system created by Mike Fine and Mike Shalett. Soundscan is the official method of tracking sales of music and music video products throughout the United States and Canada...
.
On November 15, 1995, Beyond the Season was certified Triple Platinum
RIAA certification
In the United States, the Recording Industry Association of America awards certification based on the number of albums and singles sold through retail and other ancillary markets. Other countries have similar awards...
by the Recording Industry Association of America
Recording Industry Association of America
The Recording Industry Association of America is a trade organization that represents the recording industry distributors in the United States...
for shipment of three million copies in the United States.
Track listing
- "Go Tell It on the MountainGo Tell It on the Mountain (song)"Go Tell It on the Mountain" is an African-American spiritual song, compiled by John Wesley Work, Jr., dating back to at least 1865, that has been sung and recorded by many gospel and secular performers...
" – 3:30 - "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen" – 2:34
- "The Old Man's Back in Town" – 2:34
- "The Gift" – 4:45
- "Unto You This Night" – 3:46
- "White ChristmasWhite Christmas (song)"White Christmas" is an Irving Berlin song reminiscing about an old-fashioned Christmas setting. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the version sung by Bing Crosby is the best-selling single of all time, with estimated sales in excess of 50 million copies worldwide.Accounts vary as...
" – 2:55 - "The Friendly BeastsThe Friendly Beasts"The Friendly Beasts" is a traditional Christmas song about the gifts that a donkey, a cow, a sheep, a camel, and a dove gave to Jesus at the Nativity. The song seems to have originated in 12th-century France, set to the melody of the Latin song Orientis Partibus. The current English words were...
" – 3:32 - "Santa Looked a Lot Like Daddy" – 2:29
- "Silent NightSilent Night"Silent Night" is a popular Christmas carol. The original lyrics of the song "Stille Nacht" were written in Oberndorf bei Salzburg, Austria, by the priest Father Joseph Mohr and the melody was composed by the Austrian headmaster Franz Xaver Gruber...
" – 3:46 - "Mary's Dream" – :50
- "What Child Is This?What Child Is This?"What Child Is This?" is a popular Christmas carol written in 1865. At the age of twenty-nine, English writer William Chatterton Dix was struck with a sudden near-fatal illness and confined to bedrest for several months, during which he went into a deep depression...
" – 3:27
Chart performance
Beyond the Season peaked at #2 on the U.S. Billboard 200Billboard 200
The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...
, and on the Top Country Albums. In November 1995, Beyond the Season was certified 3 x Platinum by the RIAA.
Charts
| Charts (1992) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Canadian RPM Top Albums | 20 |
| Canadian RPM Country Albums | 3 |
| U.S. Billboard 200 Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists... |
2 |
| U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums | 2 |
Sales and Certifications
| Region | Provider | Certification |
|---|---|---|
| Canada | CRIA Cria A cria is the name for a baby camelid such as a llama, alpaca, vicuña, or guanaco. It comes from the Spanish word cría, meaning "baby". Its false cognate in English, crya , was coined by British sailors who explored Chile in the 18th century and were quick to describe the camelids onomatopoeically... |
2 x Platinum |
| United States | RIAA | 3 x Platinum |
Singles
| Year | Single | Peak positions |
|---|---|---|
| US Country Hot Country Songs Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales... |
||
| 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 | |
Personnel
- Mark Casstevens - acoustic guitar
- Chris Leuzinger - acoustic & electric guitars
- Bruce Bouton - steel guitar
- Rob Hajacos - fiddle
- Cynthia Reynolds Wyatt - harp
- Nashville String MachineNashville String MachineNashville String Machine is a musical collective comprising session musicians and has been credited on recordings as far back as 1974. The Nashville String Machine's composition varies from project to project. It has appeared as large as an orchestra, or as small as a duo.-Notable members:Being a...
, Carl Gorodetzky, Pamela Sixfin, Gary Vanosdale, Bob Mason - strings - Joey Miskulin - accordion
- Bobby Wood - piano, keyboards
- Mike Chapman - bass
- Milton Sledge - drums
- Trisha YearwoodTrisha YearwoodPatricia Lynn Yearwood, professionally known as Trisha Yearwood , is an American country music artist. She is best known for her ballads about vulnerable young women from a female perspective that have been described by some music critics as "strong" and "confident."Trisha Yearwood signed with MCA...
, Pat AlgerPat AlgerPat Alger is a country music songwriter, singer and guitarist.-Biography:Alger attended Georgia Tech studying architecture but decided to concentrate on writing songs. He started as a solo folk performer at folk clubs...
, Stephanie Davis, Larry Bastian, Victoria ShawVictoria Shaw (singer)Victoria Lynn Shaw is an American country music artist. She has recorded four studio albums, and has charted five singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts...
, Tony Arata, Allen Reynolds, Jim Rooney, Christ Church Choir, Donna McElroy, Bob Bailey, Vicki Hampton, Howard Smith, Yvonne Hodges, Johnny Cobb, Jana King, Dennis Wilson, Emily Harris, Gary Chapman, Donna Morris, Christ Church Choir - background vocals