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Garth Brooks

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Garth Brooks, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​


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Born:
Feb 7, 1962 In Yukon, Oklahoma, U.S.
Movie/TV Credits:
34
First Appeared:
In the series Austin City Limits 1975-01-01
Latest Project:
Movie Homeward Bound: A Grammy Salute to the Songs of Paul Simon 2022-09-06
Known For
Poster of Garth Brooks The Ultimate Hits
Filmography
Movie Homeward Bound: A Grammy Salute to the Songs of Paul Simon Self 2022-09-06
Movie The Day the Music Died: The Story of Don McLean's "American Pie" Self 2022-07-08
Movie Dolly Parton: A MusiCares Tribute Self 2021-04-07
Movie Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President Self 2020-09-09
Movie Bluebird Self 2019-03-14
Movie Charley Pride: I'm Just Me Self 2019-02-22
Movie Loretta Lynn: Still a Mountain Girl Self 2016-03-04
Movie Disney Parks Presents: A Descendants Magical Holiday Celebration 2016-11-25
Movie Disney Parks Magical Christmas Celebration Self 2016-12-25
Movie Country: Portraits of an American Sound Self 2015-04-22
Movie Sinatra 100: An All-Star Grammy Concert Self 2015-12-06
Movie Garth Brooks The Ultimate Hits Himself 2014-09-16
Movie Garth Brooks: Live from Las Vegas 2013-11-30
Movie Billy Joel: Live at Shea Stadium Self - Musical Guest 2011-02-28
Movie Billy Joel - The Last Play at Shea Self 2010-04-25
Movie We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial Self 2009-01-18
Movie Saturday Night Live: The Best of Will Ferrell Himself / Various (archive footage) 2002-09-28
Movie Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special Self 1999-09-25
Series The Early Show Unknown 1999-11-01
Movie Behind the Life of Chris Gaines Chris Gaines 1999-11-24
Movie Garth Live from Central Park Self - Band 1997-08-07
Movie The Garth Brooks Video Collection, Vol. 2 Host 1996-04-02
Series Muppets Tonight Unknown 1996-03-08
Movie Kenny Rogers: Keep Christmas With You Himself 1995-12-01
Movie Willie Nelson: The Big Six-O Self 1993-05-22
Movie This Is Garth Brooks, Too! Himself 1993-06-12
Series Music City Tonight 1993-10-18
Series The Tonight Show with Jay Leno Unknown 1992-05-25
Movie This Is Garth Brooks Himself 1992-01-17
Series Mad About You Unknown 1992-09-23
Movie Voices That Care Self - Lead Vocals 1991-02-28
Movie Nashville Beat Self 1989-10-21
Series Austin City Limits Unknown 1975-01-01
Series Saturday Night Live Unknown 1975-10-11