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Garth Brooks (born February 7, 1962) is an American singer/songwriter who performs country music.
He won a Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance in 1992 for the album Ropin' The Wind. He was awarded the Academy of Country Music award for Entertainer of the Year for 1990, 1991, 1992 and 1993, and the award for Top Male Vocalist for 1990 and 1991.
According to the Recording Industry Association of America, as of January 2004 Garth Brooks had the fourth highest certified total for US album sales (105 million), outsold only by The Beatles, Elvis Presley and Led Zeppelin. This makes him the best-selling artist in country music and the second best-selling solo artist.
He created a fictional character Chris Gaines whose album only sold a little over 2 million copies; acceptable to most artists but a disappointment compared to Garth's selling record.
Fresh Horses made history as the first album to have 8 out of 10 tracks on the country singles charts at the same time.
Every Rosemont Horizon record was broken by Garth when he sold over 140,000 concert tickets in 1997 alone.
Garth Brooks was the first artist to debut a live album at number one on two charts (The Limited Series).
Double Live is the best-selling live album of music history.
Double Live set the all-time record for first week sales 1,085.373 copies.
This was also the record for any one week sales period for any genre artist in history.
Garth had the largest crowd to ever attend a concert in Central Park on August 7, 1997. It is estimated that over 1 million people showed for the live concert and 14.6 million saw it live on HBO.
Garth had 3 albums at the top of the Billboard pop charts at the same time in 1998 (Sevens, The Limied Series, and Double Live). He was the first to do this since Elton John in 1975.
Albums
Additional Musical Achievements
Garth Brooks holds the record as having the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th country album to debut at number one on both the Billboard Pop charts and country charts:
Capitol Records shipped 5 million copies of The Chase which, at the time, was the largest initial shipment in music historyAwards
