8 Days of Christmas (song)

"8 Days of Christmas"
Single by Destiny's Child
from the album 8 Days of Christmas
A-side
Written1999
PublishedNovember 13, 2000
ReleasedOctober 15, 2001
RecordedJuly 2000
StudioManta Sound (Toronto)
Genre
Length3:29
LabelColumbia
Songwriters
Producers
Destiny's Child singles chronology
"Emotion"
(2001)
"8 Days of Christmas"
(2001)
"Nasty Girl"
(2002)
Music video
"8 Days of Christmas" on YouTube

"8 Days of Christmas" is a song recorded by American girl group Destiny's Child for their Christmas album of the same title (2001). Written by group members Beyoncé and Kelly Rowland along with Errol McCalla Jr., who handled its production, it is a Christmas-themed song with heavy R&B and dance pop elements.

"8 Days of Christmas" was first included on the November 2000 reissue of Destiny's Child's second studio album The Writing's on the Wall (1999) and the US maxi CD single for their song "Independent Women Part I" (2000), before being released as the lead single from 8 Days of Christmas in October 2001, by Columbia Records.