Garth Brooks
Troyal Garth Brooks (born February 7, 1962), best known as Garth Brooks, is an American country music artist who helped make country music a worldwide phenomenon. His eponymous first album was released in 1989 and peaked at #2 in the US country album chart while climbing to #13 on the Billboard 200 pop album chart. Brooks' integration of rock elements into his recordings and live performances has earned him immense popularity. This progressive approach allowed him to dominate the country single and album charts while quickly crossing over into the mainstream pop arena, exposing country music to a larger audience. Brooks, with the assistance of Don Rowley and Britt Jones, and Marc Silver has enjoyed one of the most successful careers in popular music history, breaking records for both sales and concert attendance throughout the 1990s. Garth Brooks still continues to sell well and according to Nielsen Soundscan, his albums sales through end 2010 are at 68,513,000, which makes him the best-selling albums artist in the United States in the SoundScan era (since 1991), a title held since 1991, well over 6 million ahead of his nearest rival, The Beatles. Furthermore, according to RIAA he is the second best-selling solo albums artist in the United States of all time behind Elvis Presley (overall is third to the Beatles and Elvis Presley) with 128 million units sold.[6] Brooks has released six albums that achieved diamond status in the United States, those being: Garth Brooks (10× platinum), No Fences (17× platinum), Ropin' the Wind (14× platinum), The Hits (10× platinum), Sevens (10× platinum) and Double Live (21× platinum). Since 1989, Brooks has released 19 records in all, which include; 9 studio albums, 1 live album, 4 compilation albums, 3 Christmas albums and 2 box sets, along with 77 singles. He won several important awards in his career as 2 Grammy Awards, 16 American Music Awards (not including the poll of "Artist of the '90s") and the RIAA Award as Best selling solo albums artist of the Century in the United States. As of 2010, Brooks' world-wide sales now exceed 200 million. Troubled by conflicts between career and family, Brooks officially retired from recording and performing from 2001 until 2009. During this time he sold millions of albums through an exclusive distribution deal with Wal-Mart and has sporadically released new singles. In 2005, Brooks started a partial comeback, and has since given several performances and released two compilation albums. On October 15, 2009, Garth Brooks announced the end of his retirement. In December 2009, he began a 5 year concert deal with the Encore Hotel and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip.
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- 2024 · Friends in Low Places as Self
- 2022 · A Case for Kindness as Self
- 2022 · Homeward Bound: A Grammy Salute to the Songs of Paul Simon as Self
- 2022 · America's National Parks as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2022 · The Day the Music Died: The Story of Don McLean's "American Pie" as Self
- 2021 · Dolly Parton: A MusiCares Tribute as Self
- 2020 · Garth & Trisha Live! A Holiday Concert Event as Self
- 2020 · Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President as Self
- 2020 · Garth & Trisha Live! as Self
- 2019 · Garth Brooks: The Road I'm On as Self
- 2019 · The Kelly Clarkson Show as Self
- 2019 · Bluebird as Self
- 2019 · Charley Pride: I'm Just Me as Self
- 2019 · It All Begins with a Song: The Story of the Nashville Songwriter as Self
- 2018 · Garth: Live At Notre Dame! as
- 2016 · Disney Parks Magical Christmas Celebration as Self
- 2016 · Disney Parks Presents: A Descendants Magical Holiday Celebration as
- 2016 · Garth Brooks: Yankee Stadium Live as
- 2016 · Garth Brooks: Country King as
- 2016 · Loretta Lynn: Still a Mountain Girl as Self
- 2015 · Sinatra 100: An All-Star Grammy Concert as Self
- 2015 · Country: Portraits of an American Sound as Self
- 2014 · Country Kings at the BBC as
- 2014 · Garth Brooks The Ultimate Hits as Himself
- 2014 · The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as
- 2013 · Garth Brooks: Live from Las Vegas as
- 2013 · Garth Brooks: Blame It All On My Roots: Live At The Wynn as
- 2011 · Billy Joel: Live at Shea Stadium as Self - Musical Guest
- 2010 · Billy Joel - The Last Play at Shea as Self
- 2009 · We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial as Self
- 2007 · Garth Brooks - All Access as Self
- 2003 · The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self
- 2002 · Saturday Night Live: The Best of Will Ferrell as Himself / Various (archive footage)
- 1999 · Behind the Life of Chris Gaines as Chris Gaines
- 1999 · The Early Show as Self
- 1999 · Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special as Self
- 1998 · Hollywood Squares as Self - Panelist
- 1998 · Garth Brooks: Ireland and Back as
- 1998 · Garth Brooks Double Live as Himself
- 1997 · The View as Self - Guest
- 1997 · Garth Live from Central Park as Self - Band
- 1997 · Garth Live from Dublin as Himself
- 1996 · The Rosie O'Donnell Show as Self
- 1996 · The Garth Brooks Video Collection, Vol. 2 as Host
- 1996 · Muppets Tonight as Self
- 1995 · Kenny Rogers: Keep Christmas With You as Himself
- 1993 · Music City Tonight as
- 1993 · Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Musical Guest
- 1993 · This Is Garth Brooks, Too! as Himself
- 1993 · Willie Nelson: The Big Six-O as Self
- 1992 · Mad About You as Garth Brooks
- 1992 · The Tonight Show with Jay Leno as Self
- 1992 · This Is Garth Brooks as Himself
- 1991 · Voices That Care as Self - Lead Vocals
- 1991 · The Garth Brooks Video Collection : Vol. 1 as Host
- 1989 · Nashville Beat as Self
- 1984 · Church Street Station as
- 1975 · Saturday Night Live as Self - Host & Musical Guest
- 1975 · Saturday Night Live as Self - Musical Guest
- 1975 · Arena as Self
- 1975 · Austin City Limits as Self
- 1974 · American Music Awards as Self - Musical Guest
- Future · Spinal Tap II as