It's Christmas Day

"It's Christmas Day" is a Christmas song by South Korean singer-songwriter Roy Kim. It was released as a digital single on 19 December 2014, and distributed through CJ E&M Music.

Release
"It's Christmas Day" was composed and written by Kim. After taking over spring with "Bom Bom Bom", summer with "Love Love Love", and autumn with "Home", Kim filled all of four seasons with his winter song release. On 11 December 2014, Kim posted up on his official Instagram account, stating "It's gonna be Christmas Day soon. Wait for it. Recording a new song."

The self-penned single was released on 19 December, one day ahead of his year-end concert, "Our Winter #2". Its music video also was revealed at the same day, bringing all kinds of Christmas feels with Kim sweetly singing while playing the piano and guitar. "It's Christmas Day" peaked at number 27 on the Gaon Digital Chart, having sold over 69,000 digital copies as of 3 January 2015.

Promotion
Following its release, Kim performed the song at Mnet's M Countdown broadcast on Christmas Day of that year.

Credits and personnel
Credits are adapted from the liner notes of the single's limited CD edition.


 * Locations


 * Recorded at Brewbeat Studio (drum)
 * Recorded at Studio 40 (electric guitar)
 * Recorded at Musicabal (vocals, keyboard, acoustic guitar, and percussion)
 * Recorded at T Studio (strings)
 * Mixed at Musicabal
 * Mastered at Metropolis Mastering, London


 * Personnel


 * Sang-woo Kim – vocals, lyrics, composer, percussion, backing vocals
 * Ji-chan Jung – arranger, acoustic guitar, keyboard, programming, percussion, music producer
 * Steve Brewster – drum
 * Ken Song – electric guitar
 * Hoon Choi – bass
 * In-young Bak – arranging of strings
 * Yoong String – strings
 * Seong-sik Oh – recording of strings
 * Kyung-hoon Baek – recording assistant
 * Hyun-jung Go – mixing
 * Stuart Hawkes – mastering
 * Seok-jun Ahn – executive producer