"Honey, I'm Home" is a song co-written and recorded by Canadian

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artist

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. It was released in August 1998 as the sixth single from her album ''

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'', and the fifth to country radio. The song was written by Twain and her then-husband

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who produced the track. The song was originally released in the summer of 1998 following the mass success of "

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". The song went on to become Twain's seventh and to date, final number one single on the ''Billboard'' Country singles chart. "Honey, I'm Home" was included in both her

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and

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, as well as her Miami, Dallas and

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video specials. No commercial single was made available for this release.

Music video

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for "Honey, I'm Home" was taken from Twain's

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concert on July 8, 1998, it was released on August 19, 1998 on CMT. The video was directed by

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. This was the first of three live videos taken from ''Come on Over''. Unlike the other two, "

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" and "

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", "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

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Chart performance

Twain's label, Mercury, did not release a commercial single for "Honey, I'm Home," and as such it was ineligible to chart on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. "Honey, I'm Home" debuted on the ''Billboard'' Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart the week of August 8, 1998 at number 70. The single spent 26 weeks on the chart and climbed to a peak position of number one on October 31, 1998, where it remained for one week. The single became Twain's seventh and to-date last number one at country radio. It also became her ninth top ten (fifth consecutive), and her 11th top 20 single on the country charts. "Honey, I'm Home" also topped the Hot Country Recurrents chart for one week.

Official versions

*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

*Country music parodist

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parodied the song as "Shania, I'm Broke" on his 1999 album ''

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''.

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

References

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