# Beyond the Season

Professional ratings :
| Review scores ||
| Source | Rating |
| About.com | |
| AllMusic | |
| Christgau's Consumer Guide | |
| Entertainment Weekly | C+ |
| Q | |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide | |
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. 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 3 million copies in the United States.

## 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.

### 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) | 2× Platinum | 200,000$^^$ |
| United States (RIAA) | 3× Platinum | 2,650,000 |
| $^^$ 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

## Production

* Allen Reynolds – producer
* Mark Miller – recording, mixing
* Matt Allen – recording assistant
* Carlos Grier – digital editing
* Denny Purcell – mastering at Georgetown Masters (Nashville, Tennessee).
* Virginia Team – art direction
* Jerry Joyner – design
* Beverly Parker – photography

## References and external links

* ↑ "About.com review". Archived from the original on 2007-03-13. Retrieved 2006-11-04.
* ↑ AllMusic review
* ↑ Robert Christgau Consumer Guide
* ↑ "Entertainment Weekly review". Archived from the original on 2009-12-18. Retrieved 2013-04-14.
* ↑ Album reviews at CD Universe
* ↑ 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.
* ↑ Paul Grein (October 29, 2013). "Chart Watch Extra: What Will Be This Year's Top Christmas Album?". Chart Watch. Yahoo.
* 1 2 "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.
* ↑ "RIAA Searchable Database". Recording Industry Association of America. Archived from the original on 2014-12-03. Retrieved 2014-12-02.
* ↑ "Garth Brooks Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved September 8, 2021.
* ↑ "Garth Brooks Chart History (Top Country Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved September 8, 2021.
* ↑ "Top Billboard 200 Albums – Year-End 1992". Billboard. Retrieved September 8, 2021.
* ↑ "Top Country Albums – Year-End 1992". Billboard. Retrieved September 8, 2021.
* ↑ "Top Billboard 200 Albums – Year-End 1993". Billboard. Retrieved November 5, 2021.
* ↑ "Top Country Albums – Year-End 1993". Billboard. Retrieved November 5, 2021.
* ↑ "Canadian album certifications – Garth Brooks – Beyond the Season". Music Canada. Retrieved June 9, 2020.
* ↑ "American album certifications – Garth Brooks – Beyond the Season". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved June 9, 2020.