Home for Christmas (NSYNC album)

Home for Christmas
NSYNC members huddled together in front of a green background and red border with Christmas leaves on the corner. Underneath are the words: NSYNC Home For Christmas.
Studio album by
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[1]
Entertainment WeeklyC[2]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[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]

"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]

  1. ^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Home for Christmas - *NSYNC". AllMusic. Retrieved July 15, 2012.
  2. ^ Willman, Chris (December 4, 1998). "Just Say Noel (Page 2)". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on March 27, 2019. Retrieved July 15, 2012.
  3. ^ Brackett, Nathan; Christian Hoard (2004). The Rolling Stone Album Guide. New York City, New York: Simon and Schuster. p. 593. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
  4. ^ "RIAA Searchable Database". Recording Industry Association of America. Archived from the original on December 3, 2014. Retrieved December 2, 2014.
  5. ^ Boucher, Geoff (April 15, 1999). "The Boys 'N Demand". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on November 7, 2012. Retrieved July 22, 2022.
  6. ^ The Meaning of Christmas (2002) | NSYNC | MP3 Downloads 7digital United Kingdom Archived 2013-11-13 at the Wayback Machine
  7. ^ Amazon.com: Home for Christmas: Music
  8. ^ "Billboard 200 Chart Moves: Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side' Returns to Top 20". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. December 11, 2014. Retrieved December 12, 2014.