Olivia Rodrigo’s first Christmas single has a companion song. “Take me home (4 christmas)” arrives on November 5 at 5pm Pacific Standard Time, alongside its video, while the red seven-inch and cassette pair it with “miss this christmas”. Both physical listings put the new single on side A and the second song on side B.
Rodrigo wrote the holiday song with Dan Nigro and Amy Allen. Nigro produced it, and Cynthia Nixon and Ben Marshall join Rodrigo in the video. The music and the clip are due at the same moment. It is an original song, rather than her version of an established Christmas standard.
Here is when that moment falls on three local clocks:
- Los Angeles: Thursday, November 5, 5pm.
- London: Friday, November 6, 1am.
- Turkey: Friday, November 6, 4am.
That explains why a Thursday date and a Friday date can both be right. In Turkey, the launch belongs to the early hours of Friday. The date printed in an American announcement is a less useful reminder here than the actual local hour, especially with the video going live at the same time.
The physical single has its own Friday schedule. The US store says the vinyl and cassette ship on November 6; the label also gives that date for the seven-inch reaching shops. Anyone ordering a copy should allow for the distinction between dispatch and delivery. November 6 is the date on the listing, not a promise that a parcel arrives that morning.
The vinyl is the first pressing, in the red colour called “under the tree”. The cassette is also red. Both have the same two titles in the same order, so there is no extra song listed as a reward for choosing one of those formats over the other. The US listings are limited to one per customer and say they are available only in the United States.
This follows the October release of Expectations with Chappell Roan. Our look at the two versions on that CD described a duet followed by Rodrigo’s solo recording. The Christmas package works differently: it names two songs, rather than two versions of one. That is the detail to compare before treating the releases as matching collector’s items.
There is still a limit to what the physical track list tells us. It confirms “miss this christmas” on the vinyl and cassette, but does not settle that song’s digital availability. Nor does a two-song single establish a forthcoming Christmas album. For now, there is a precise launch time for the title song and video, and a second named song to find on the physical editions.
