"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" 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
The 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
Mercury 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 BillboardHot 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.
