Beyond the Season | ||||
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Studio album by Garth Brooks | ||||
Released | August 25, 1992 | |||
Studio | Jack's Tracks Recording Studio | |||
Genre | Country, Christmas | |||
Length | 33:48 | |||
Label | Liberty | |||
Producer | Allen Reynolds | |||
Garth Brooks chronology | ||||
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About.com | |
Allmusic | |
Entertainment Weekly | C+ |
Q | |
Robert Christgau | |
The Rolling Stone Album Guide |
Beyond the Season (stylized as 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 with sales of 1,542,000 copies for the year according to Nielsen SoundScan. 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).
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.
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.