Garth Brooks Tickets Information
Garth Brooks’ eponymous 1989 debut album peaked at #2 on the Billboard US Country chart. His follow up, No Fences, came out one year later and held the number 1 spot for 23 weeks.

The song that became known as Garth Brooks’ signature song (and one you can expect to hear at any Garth Brooks concert) is the anthemic “Friends in Low Places”. This track, along with 3 others from No Fences, reached number 1: “The Thunder Rolls”, “Unanswered Prayers”, and “Two of a Kind, Workin’ on a Full House”.

Garth Brooks third album, Ropin’ the Wind, set new records for country music, entering the Billboard Pop Album Chart at #1, the first country act ever to do so, and receiving 4 million advanced orders prior to its release. Thanks to the success of this album, Garth Brooks became the first country artist ever to have 3 albums in the same week’s Pop Music Top 20.

With his fifth album, The Chase, Brooks released the controversial single “We Shall Be Free”, inspired by the 1992 Los Angeles riots. But whatever his audience’s disparate opinions on cultural diversity, they all agree on loving Garth Brooks and the single often receives a standing ovation whenever he performs it live in concert.

For four years running, 1990-1993, Garth Brooks was named Entertainer of the Year by the Academy of Country Music, and for two consecutive years, 1990 and 1991, they named him Top Male Vocalist. In 1992, Garth Brooks won his first Grammy Award, this for Best male Country Vocal Performance for Ropin’ the Wind

In 1998 Garth Brooks was voted American Country Music (ACM) Entertainer of the Year, and in 1999 the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) proclaimed him America’s best-selling solo artist of the 20th century.

All in all, Garth Brooks has released 11 US Country #1 albums and 8 US Billboard 200 #1 albums, the most recent in both categories being 2001’s Scarecrow. To date, Garth Brooks has won 2 GRAMMYS (with 7 nominations), 18 ACM Awards, 16 AMA Awards, 11 CMA Awards, 5 World Music Awards, 10 People’s Choice Awards, 7 Primetime Emmy Award nominations, 1 Golden Globe nomination, 24 Billboard Music Awards, 2 ASCAP Awards, and in 2002 was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.

More than a mere country crooner, Garth Brooks is a full-fledged entertainment superstar, with such maneuvers as contributing a song to the Kiss hard rock tribute album Kiss My Ass: Classic Kiss Regrooved and in performing a 1997 free concert in Central Park, Manhattan, New York to crowds estimated throughout the event at 1-to3-quarters-of-a-million people strong. Guest appearances were made at that show by Don McLean (“The Day the Music Died”) and Billy Joel, whose song “Shameless” Brooks covered ion Ropin’ the Wind.

A blue collar American boy at heart, Garth Brooks still endears himself to the world, who continue to sell out tours throughout Spain, Ireland, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, and the Far East.

After a series of retirements and comebacks, the comeback kid Garth Brooks is back again. Best get your Garth Brooks tickets while you can, before the legend retires again, maybe this next time for good.