Garth Brooks
Released April 12, 1989 Produced by Allen Reynolds

One Artist. One Decade. One Hundred Million. This is the album that started it all.

Garth Brooks contains two of the biggest songs in country music history. The first #1 single, “If Tomorrow Never Comes,” has been recorded in over ten languages, winning London-based Country Music People’s International Single of the Year and Song of the Year from the Nashville Songwriters Association International (NSAI). “If Tomorrow Never Comes” won the American Music Award for Favorite Country Single in 1991.

The final single from Garth Brooks was “The Dance,” which took home the Country Music Association’s 1990 Video of the Year award, and 1991 honors from the Academy of Country Music for both Song and Video of the Year. Additional hit singles “Much Too Young (To Feel This Damn Old)” (#8) and “Not Counting You” (#1).

Garth won the CMA Horizon Award in 1990.

Although Capitol only shipped 20,000 copies of Garth’s self-titled debut album on its release, Garth Brooks became the biggest-selling country album of the 1980s. The album peaked at #2 on the Billboard Country Albums chart, while its successor, No Fences, was #1 at the time. 

Garth Brooks is RIAA certified for sales in excess of 9 million units.