Beyond the Season

Beyond the Season
Studio album by
Garth Brooks
ReleasedAugust 25, 1992
StudioJack's Tracks (Nashville, Tennessee)
Genre
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(dud)[3]
Entertainment WeeklyC+[4]
Q[5]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[6]

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]

  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". Archived from the original on 2009-12-18. Retrieved 2013-04-14.
  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.