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Garth Brooks

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Born February 7, 1962, Yukon, Oklahoma, USA

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.

Filmography

Appearances as themselves (54)
  • 2025Opry 100: A Live Celebration — Self - Performer
  • 2025Spinal Tap II: The End Continues — Self
  • 2023Amazon Music Live with Garth Brooks — Self
  • 2022A Case for Kindness — Self
  • 2022Homeward Bound: A Grammy Salute to the Songs of Paul Simon — Self
  • 2022The Day the Music Died: The Story of Don McLean's "American Pie" — Self
  • 2021Dolly Parton: A MusiCares Tribute — Self
  • 2020Garth & Trisha Live! — Self
  • 2020Garth & Trisha Live! A Holiday Concert Event — Self
  • 2020Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President — Self
  • 2019Bluebird — Self
  • 2019Charley Pride: I'm Just Me — Self
  • Garth Brooks: The Road I'm On — Self
  • 2019It All Begins with a Song: The Story of the Nashville Songwriter — Self
  • The Kelly Clarkson Show — Self
  • 2016Disney Parks Magical Christmas Celebration — Self
  • 2016Loretta Lynn: Still a Mountain Girl — Self
  • 2015Country: Portraits of an American Sound — Self
  • In Their Own Words — Self
  • 2015Sinatra 100: An All-Star Grammy Concert — Self
  • 2014Garth Brooks The Ultimate Hits — Himself
  • The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self
  • 2011Billy Joel - Live at Shea Stadium — Self - Musical Guest
  • 2011Country at the BBC — Self (archive footage)
  • 2010Billy Joel - The Last Play at Shea — Self
  • 2009We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial — Self
  • 2007Garth Brooks - All Access — Self
  • Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self - Musical Guest
  • 2003Saturday Night Live: 25 Years of Music Vol. 5 — Self
  • The Ellen DeGeneres Show — Self - Musical Guest, Self - Guest Host
  • 2002Saturday Night Live: The Best of Will Ferrell — Self / Various (archive footage)
  • 1999Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special — Self
  • The Early Show — Self
  • 1998Garth Brooks Double Live — Himself
  • Hollywood Squares — Self - Panelist
  • 1997Garth Live from Dublin — Himself
  • The View — Self - Guest
  • Muppets Tonight — Self
  • The Rosie O'Donnell Show — Self
  • Late Night with Conan O'Brien — Self - Musical Guest
  • 1993Sesame Street's 25th Birthday: A Musical Celebration — Self (segment "New Way to Walk")
  • 1993This Is Garth Brooks, Too! — Himself
  • 1993Willie Nelson: The Big Six-O — Self
  • 1992Kenny Rogers: Keep Christmas With You — Himself
  • The Tonight Show with Jay Leno — Self
  • 1992This Is Garth Brooks — Himself
  • 1991Voices That Care — Self - Lead Vocals
  • 1989Nashville Beat — Self
  • Austin City Limits — Self
  • Saturday Night Live — Self - Host & Musical Guest, Self - Musical Guest
  • American Music Awards — Self - Musical Guest
  • CMA Awards — Self
  • Top of the Pops — Self
  • The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson — Self
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