Take Me Home for Christmas

Album: It's Officially Christmas: The Double Album (2020)
Charted: 48
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Songfacts®:

  • This R&B-inspired country number finds Shay Mooney pining for an invitation to spend the holidays with his new love interest. He longs to meet her high school friends, go caroling and learn her traditions instead of spending Christmas alone by his fire at home.
  • Dan Smyers had a hand in penning the song along with "Drunk Me" singer Mitchell Tenpenny and Nashville songwriters Andy Albert, Jordan Reynolds, and Jordan Schmidt.
  • Dan + Shay are no strangers to Christmas music. In 2014 they cut a version of "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas," which peaked at #17 on the Adult Contemporary chart. They've also performed other festive songs such as "O Holy Night" live.
  • This is one of two holiday songs that Dan + Shay released in 2020, along with "Christmas Isn't Christmas." Speaking with Apple Music's Zane Lowe, Shay Mooney revealed that writing their Yuletide music put them in a festive mood.

    "Especially right now with all the craziness that's going on, I feel like it was pretty therapeutic for us to sit down and think of a better time," he revealed. "Christmas is, like, the only thing that can save 2020 at this point, so it was kind of cool to reminisce and put ourselves in our happy place. I think everyone has memories tied to Christmas."

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