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Beyond the Season
Beyond the Season
Studio album by Garth Brooks
Released	August 25, 1992
Studio	Jack's Tracks (Nashville, Tennessee)
Genre	Christmas; country;
Length	33:48
Label	Liberty
Producer	Allen Reynolds
Garth Brooks chronology

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
About.com	^[1]
AllMusic	^[2]
Christgau's Consumer Guide	^[3]
Entertainment Weekly	C+^[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]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Go Tell It on the Mountain"	Traditional	3:30
2.	"God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen"	Traditional	2:34
3.	"The Old Man's Back in Town"	Garth Brooks, Larry Bastian, Randy Taylor	2:34
4.	"The Gift"	Stephanie Davis	4:43
5.	"Unto You This Night"	Rex Benson, Steve Gillette	3:16
6.	"White Christmas"	Irving Berlin	2:55
7.	"The Friendly Beasts"	Traditional	3:32
8.	"Santa Looked a Lot Like Daddy"	Buck Owens, Don Rich	2:29
9.	"Silent Night"	Traditional	3:46
10.	"Mary's Dream"	Mark Casstevens, Bobby Wood	0:50
11.	"What Child Is This?"	Traditional	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.

Weekly charts

Chart (1992)	Peak position
Canadian Albums (RPM)	20
Canadian Country Albums (RPM)	3
US Billboard 200^[10]	2
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)^[11]	2

Year-end charts

Chart (1992)	Position
US Billboard 200^[12]	61
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)^[13]	11

Chart (1993)	Position
US Billboard 200^[14]	72
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)^[15]	15

Singles

Year	Single	Peak positions
Year	Single	US Country
1998	"Santa Looked a Lot Like Daddy"	41
1999	"Go Tell it on the Mountain"	72
2000	"White Christmas"	65
2000	"God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen"	69

Certifications


Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada)^[16]	2× Platinum	200,000^{^}
United States (RIAA)^[17]	3× Platinum	2,650,000^[8]
^{^} Shipments figures based on certification alone.

Personnel

Garth Brooks – lead vocals, harmony vocals (3, 8, 9), acoustic guitar
Bobby Wood – acoustic piano, keyboards
Joey Miskulin – accordion (4)
Mark Casstevens – acoustic guitar
Chris Leuzinger – acoustic guitar (1–9), electric guitars (1–9)
Bruce Bouton – steel guitar (3, 5, 8)
Mike Chapman – bass (1–9)
Milton Sledge – drums (1–9), percussion (1–9)
Rob Hajacos – fiddle (3, 8)
Charles Cochran – string arrangements (10, 11)
Cynthia Reynolds Wyatt – harp (10, 11)
Bob Mason – cello (10)
Gary Vanosdale – viola (10)
Carl Gorodetzky – violin (10)
Pamela Sixfin – violin (10)
The Nashville String Machine – strings (11)
Christ Church Choir – choir (5)
Landy Gardner – choir director (5)
Trisha Yearwood – harmony vocals (5, 9)
Allen Reynolds – harmony vocals (9)
Jim Rooney – harmony vocals (9)

Backing Vocals (Tracks 1 & 11)

Bob Bailey, Johnny Cobb, Gary Chapman, Vicki Hampton, Emily Harris, Yvonne Hodges, Jana King, Donna McElroy, Donna Morris, Howard Smith and Dennis Wilson