℗ 2020 UMG Recordings; A Verve Forecast release
| Released | November 12, 2020 |
| Duration | 5m 33s |
| Record Label | Verve Forecast |
| Genre | Holiday |
How Could This Be Christmas? (Single)
Mandy Moore
Available in 48 kHz / 24-bit AIFF, FLAC audio formats
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1.1
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How Could This Be Christmas?
Mandy Moore |
2:54 | |||
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1.2
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It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year
Mandy Moore |
2:39 |
Mandy Moore releases a brand-new two-track holiday single entitled How Could This Be Christmas on Verve Forecast. Side A is the buoyant classic “It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year” and Side B is the title track, an original co-written by Moore.
Reflecting the complex nature of the holiday season this year, Mandy Moore recorded two distinct holiday songs: the beloved classic “It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year” and a reflective original, “How Could This Be Christmas,” which Moore co-wrote with husband Taylor Goldsmith (Dawes) and music producer Mike Viola. The latter is a beautiful, wistful ballad about loss and the added struggle of dealing with it during the holidays.
“The holidays are certainly going to feel verifiably different this year and in this vein, I challenged myself (and Mike and Taylor) to write a song that hinted at the acknowledgment of something missing without being too specific. Because if we’ve learned anything in this season of change, it’s the recognition that those we love and cherish are what’s most important and worth celebrating. And that felt like a message to get behind during this special time of year.”
- Mandy Moore
48 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Verve Forecast Studio Masters
| Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -0.22 -0.22 to -0.22 | -11.37 -12.00 to -10.74 | -9.05 -9.90 to -8.20 | 7 7 to 7 | |
| 1 | How Could This Be Christmas? | -0.22 | -12.00 | -9.9 | 7 |
| 2 | It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year | -0.22 | -10.74 | -8.2 | 7 |