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GARTH BROOKS

Garth Brooks has received nearly every accolade that a singer, songwriter, recording artist and entertainer can receive, including the prestigious Kennedy Center Honor and the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song.  He is the #1-selling album artist in U.S. history, certified by the RIAA with 200 million album sales. Brooks is the first and only artist to receive ten RIAA Diamond Awards for ten albums certified at over 10 million: Garth Brooks, No Fences, Ropin’ the Wind, The Chase, In Pieces, The Hits, Sevens, Double Live, The Ultimate Hits, and Triple Live.  According to the RIAA, Double Live is the biggest selling live album and the top-selling country album in the U.S. Double Live, No Fences, Ropin’ the Wind, and Triple Live are four of the top five best-selling country albums of all time.

Brooks is the only seven-time recipient of the CMA Entertainer of the Year award. In 2022, he was honored with the Kris Kristofferson Lifetime Achievement Award at NSAI's Nashville Songwriter Awards, and he was awarded Country Touring Artist of the Decade at the 2021 Pollstar Awards. He is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, the Songwriters Hall of Fame, the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, the Musicians Hall of Fame, the Austin City Limits Hall of Fame, and the Grand Ole Opry.

In March 2025, Brooks completed an extraordinary 72-show residency, Garth Brooks/Plus ONE, at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. Selling 99% of all available tickets, Garth treated each audience to a one-of-a-kind music experience. In 2022, Brooks completed a three-and-a-half-year-long stadium tour that drew an average of over 95,000 people in each city and was seen by a cumulative audience of nearly three million. The tour concluded with five sold-out concerts at Croke Park in Dublin, Ireland, which were seen by over 400,000 people. The stadium tour followed the Garth Brooks World Tour with Trisha Yearwood, a record-shattering arena tour that sold over 6.3 million tickets in 3 1/2 years.

Brooks has 20 Billboard #1 singles to his credit. Before he was awarded the Billboard Icon Award in March 2020, Billboard announced that Garth was the first artist to garner top-5 singles at country radio in five consecutive decades--the ‘80s, ‘90s, ‘00s, ‘10s and ‘20s. During that time, his music has filled the radio airwaves with timeless classics that earned a place in the American songbook, including “The Dance,” “Friends in Low Places,” “The River,” and “If Tomorrow Never Comes.”

Brooks recently released the sixth volume in The Anthology series, which spans his phenomenal career in the voices of those who made the remarkable journey with him and witnessed history in the making.  The band and crew, songwriters, music industry insiders, family, friends, and other collaborators share their stories in their own words, creating what Garth calls “liner notes on steroids.” Combined with Garth’s recollections, these perspectives paint a complete picture of his life and career.  Each hardbound volume in The Anthology series is filled with rare and never-before-seen photos from the vaults and comes with multiple discs of Garth’s music, including previously unreleased material, live performances, demo versions, and his biggest hits.