Garth Brooks

~ Person

Legal name: Troyal Garth Brooks

Also performs as: Chris Gaines

Wikipedia

Troyal Garth Brooks (born February 7, 1962) is an American country singer and songwriter. His integration of pop and rock elements into the country genre has earned him his immense popularity, particularly in the United States, with success on the country music single and album charts, multi-platinum recordings and record-breaking live performances, while also crossing over into the mainstream pop arena.

Brooks is the only artist in music history to have released nine albums that were certified Diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America (surpassing The Beatles' former record of six); those albums are Garth Brooks (diamond), No Fences (17× platinum), Ropin' the Wind (14× platinum), The Chase (diamond), In Pieces (diamond), The Hits (diamond), Sevens (diamond), Double Live (21× platinum), and The Ultimate Hits (diamond). Since 1989, Brooks has released 27 records in all, which include 17 studio albums, two live albums, three compilation albums, three Christmas albums, and four box sets, along with 77 singles. He has won several awards in his career, including two Grammy Awards, 17 American Music Awards (including "Artist of the '90s") and the RIAA Award for best-selling solo albums artist of the century in the U.S.

Troubled by conflicts between career and family, Brooks retired from recording and performing from 2001 until 2005. During this time, he sold millions of albums through an exclusive distribution deal with Walmart and sporadically released new singles. In 2005, Brooks started a partial comeback, giving select performances and releasing two compilation albums. In 2009, he began Garth at Wynn, a periodic weekend concert residency at Las Vegas's Encore Theatre from December 2009 to January 2014. Following the conclusion of the residency, Brooks announced his signing with Sony Music Nashville in July 2014. In September 2014, he began his comeback world tour, with wife and musician Trisha Yearwood, which culminated in 2017. This was followed by his Stadium Tour, which began in 2019, and another Las Vegas concert residency, Garth Brooks/Plus ONE, continuing into 2024. His most recent album, Time Traveler, was released in November 2023.

Brooks is one of the world's best-selling music artists, having sold more than 170 million records. Billboard ranked Brooks as the greatest male solo artist on the Billboard 200 chart of all time. As of 2020, according to the RIAA, he is the best-selling solo albums artist in the United States with 162 million domestic units sold, ahead of Elvis Presley, and is second only to the Beatles in total album sales overall. Brooks was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame on October 21, 2012, having been inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame the year before. He was also inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in 2016 with his studio musicians, The G-Men. In 2020, Brooks became the youngest recipient of the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song.

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Discography

Album

YearTitleArtistRatingReleases
1989Garth BrooksGarth Brooks4.357
1990No FencesGarth Brooks4.7511
1991Ropin’ the WindGarth Brooks4.759
1992Beyond the SeasonGarth Brooks4.253
1992The ChaseGarth Brooks413
1993In PiecesGarth Brooks4.258
1995Fresh HorsesGarth Brooks3.254
1997SevensGarth Brooks4.356
1999Garth Brooks & The Magic of ChristmasGarth Brooks43
2001ScarecrowGarth Brooks4.53
2005The Lost Sessions: The Limited SeriesGarth Brooks4.52
2014Man Against MachineGarth Brooks44
2016Christmas TogetherGarth Brooks & Trisha Yearwood2.352
2016GunslingerGarth Brooks3.54
2020FunGarth Brooks12
2024Time TravelerGarth Brooks1

Album + Compilation

YearTitleArtistRatingReleases
1990No Fences / Garth BrooksGarth Brooks1
1994The Garth Brooks CollectionGarth Brooks21
1994The HitsGarth Brooks58
1995Fresh HorsesGarth Brooks1
1998The Limited Series (Volume 1)Garth Brooks1
2005The Limited Series (Volume 2)Garth Brooks51
2007The Ultimate HitsGarth Brooks55
2013Blame It All on My Roots: Five Decades of InfluencesGarth Brooks1
2016The Ultimate CollectionGarth Brooks1
2017The Anthology, Part 1: The First Five YearsGarth Brooks41
2017The Chase / In PiecesGarth Brooks1
2019The Legacy Collection (numbered edition)Garth Brooks3
2022The Anthology, Part II: The Next Five YearsGarth Brooks1
2023The Limited Series (2023)Garth Brooks1

Album + Compilation + Live

YearTitleArtistRatingReleases
2018The Anthology, Part III: LiveGarth Brooks1

Album + Live

YearTitleArtistRatingReleases
1992This is Garth BrooksGarth Brooks1
1997Live From DublinGarth Brooks1
1997Live From Central ParkGarth Brooks1
1998Double LiveGarth Brooks6
2006This is Garth Brooks Too!Garth Brooks1
2006The EntertainerGarth Brooks1
2018Triple LiveGarth Brooks52
2020Triple Live DeluxeGarth Brooks1
2023LIVE LIVEGarth Brooks1

Single

YearTitleArtistRatingReleases
1990Friends in Low PlacesGarth Brooks1
1990The DanceGarth Brooks1
1991ShamelessGarth Brooks1
1994Standing Outside the FireGarth Brooks1
1995She's Every WomanGarth Brooks1
1996The Beaches of CheyenneGarth Brooks2
1998One Heart at a TimeGarth Brooks, Billy Dean, Faith Hill, Olivia Newton‐John, Neal McCoy, Michael McDonald, Victoria Shaw, Bryan White1
1999Two Pina ColadasGarth Brooks1
1999Lost in YouGarth Brooks as Chris Gaines2
2007More Than a MemoryGarth Brooks1
2016Baby, Let's Lay Down and DanceGarth Brooks1
2018All Day LongGarth Brooks1
2020ShallowGarth Brooks & Trisha Yearwood2

EP

YearTitleArtistRatingReleases
2018FUNGarth Brooks1

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