"Honey, I'm Home" is a song co-written and recorded by Canadian country music artist Shania Twain. It was released on August 10, 1998 as the sixth single from her third studio album Come On Over (1997). The song was written by Twain and her then-husband Robert John "Mutt" Lange, who also produced it. The song speaks of Twain coming home from a hard day and wanting her partner to do things to calm her down.
| "Honey, I'm Home" | ||||
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| Single by Shania Twain | ||||
| from the album Come On Over | ||||
| B-side | "From This Moment On" | |||
| Released | August 10, 1998[1] | |||
| Recorded | 1997 | |||
| Genre | Country rock[2] | |||
| Length | 3:39 | |||
| Label | Mercury Nashville | |||
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| Producer(s) | Robert John "Mutt" Lange | |||
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| Live video | ||||
| "Honey, I'm Home" on YouTube | ||||
"Honey, I'm Home" was seen by some critics as having very little country influences, but nevertheless was a commercial success. The song became Twain's seventh and final number one hit on the Hot Country Songs chart and became her eleventh number one (and fifth consecutive) on the Canadian RPM Country Tracks chart. "Honey, I'm Home" was included in both her Come on Over Tour and Up! Tour, as well as her Miami, Dallas and Chicago video specials.
Music video
editThe music video for "Honey, I'm Home" was taken from Twain's Louisville, Kentucky concert on July 8, 1998, it was released on August 19, 1998, on CMT. The video was directed by Larry Jordan. This was the first of three live videos taken from Come on Over. Unlike the other two, "Come on Over" and "Rock This Country!", "Honey, I'm Home" documents the entire show, while the other two are just of the performance of the respective song. Two versions of the video were made, one dubbing the 'Original Album Version' audio over the live footage, and the other dubbing the 'International Single Mix' over the live soundtrack. The 'Original Album Version' is available on Twain's compilations Come On Over: Video Collection (1999) and The Platinum Collection (2001), while the 'International Mix' can be seen on YouTube.
Chart performance
editMercury Nashville, Twain's label, did not release a commercial single for "Honey, I'm Home". Therefore, it was ineligible to enter the Billboard Hot 100 as before the December 5, 1998 issue, songs needed a commercial release to enter the chart.
"Honey, I'm Home" initially debuted on the Billboard Hot Country Songs as an album track. The song initially debuted on November 15, 1997 at number 66. It would spent one more week at number 68 before falling off the chart next week. As an official single, "Honey, I'm Home" re-entered the chart on August 8, 1998 at number 70. The song entered the top ten in its tenth week on September 26, 1998 at number nine. The single kept rising at a steady pace before topping the chart on October 31, 1998; the song marked Twain's seventh and final number one hit at country radio. It would spend one week at number one and 26 weeks on the chart. "Honey, I'm Home" also topped the Hot Country Recurrents chart for one week.
Official versions
edit- Original Album Version (3:39)
- International Version (3:33)
- Live from Dallas (Live/Direct TV Mix) (3:46)
- Live from Still the One: Live from Vegas (3:42)
Covers and parodies
edit- Country music parodist Cledus T. Judd parodied the song as "Shania, I'm Broke" on his 1999 album Juddmental.
Charts
editCertifications
edit| Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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| United States (RIAA)[7] | Gold | 500,000‡ |
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‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. | ||
References
edit- ^ "Going for Adds: Country" (PDF). Radio & Records. No. 1260. August 7, 1998. p. 98. Retrieved July 15, 2024.
- ^ Considine, J.D. (November 14, 1997). "Honky-Tonk Women: Shania Twain and Wynonna Judd". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved January 24, 2013.
- ^ "Top RPM Country Tracks: Issue 7068." RPM. Library and Archives Canada. October 19, 1998. Retrieved July 14, 2013.
- ^ "Shania Twain Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved May 8, 2017.
- ^ "RPM Top 100 Country Tracks of 1998". RPM. December 14, 1998. Archived from the original on March 15, 2016. Retrieved July 14, 2013.
- ^ "The Year in Music" (PDF). Billboard. December 26, 1998. Retrieved May 8, 2017.
- ^ "American single certifications – Shania Twain – Honey, I'm Home". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved August 3, 2020.
