  Garth Brooks was born on
February 7, 1962, in Oklahoma. Garth started
making big waves in the country world just as
country music was beginning to have a
resurgence in the music industry (largely in
part to him). Garth contributed to the
popularity of country music with his
combination of post-folk rock and sensitive
country sounds and lyrics. Garth showed the
music industry that a country artist could
release a multi-million selling LP and by the
late 90s, Garth sold more LPs than any other
solo artist in music history and country
music had become a multi-million dollar
selling tool. He is the only male artist to
have 2 LPs sell over 10 million copies each.
In Garth's youth, country music was present
in his home (his mom was a country singer),
but his focus was more on athletics. Garth
made it to Oklahoma State University on a
javelin throwing scholarship but eventually
turned to music instead.
In 1985, Garth moved to
Nashville with a degree in advertising to
pursue a country music career. Even though
his quickly found it was an unsuccessful
venture, and returned to Oklahoma, Garth
returned to Nashville again in 1987 and
signed with Capitol in 1988. Garth described
that time: "I was scared to death,"
Garth now says. "When we first started,
I had one thing in mind, and that was to make
folks back home proud. I really felt like I
was representing Yukon, Oklahoma, and more
than anything I wanted them to like what I
did. If I had to pick one word to describe
the recording process that first time, I
guess I'd say 'innocence'."
 April 12: Garth's first LP, Garth
Brooks, was released with the tracks
"Not Counting On You," and
"Much Too Young (To Feel This Damn
Old)" and the #1 Country hits, "The
Dance" and "If Tomorrow Never
Comes." The LP was a hit in the country
market, and was gradually showing some
popularity on the pop LP charts. With
continuing success, the LP eventually sold
over 9 million copies in the U.S.
 Garth's second LP, No
Fences, was released and has sold over
16 million copies in the U.S., a figure
usually unheard of for a country artist.
Garth topped the Country Singles chart with 4
hits from the LP: his trademark tune
"Friends In Low Places," the
controversial "The Thunder Rolls"
(which portrays spousal abuse),
"Unanswered Prayers," and "Two
Of A Kind (Workin' On A Full House)."
Garth had now obtained superstar status and
was able to sell out stadiums when on tour.
Garth also changed the face of country
touring with his performances by having a
large-scale shows full of energy and
entertainment.
Garth won 2 Country Music Awards
for Music Video of the Year and the Horizon
Award.
Garth
Brooks was certified gold.
Garth
Brooks was certified platinum.
No
Fences was certified 2x platinum.
Garth won an American Music
Award for Favorite Country Single ("If Tomorrow
Never Comes") and was nominated for Favorite Country Male Artist.
Garth was nominated for a Grammy
Award for Best Country Vocal
Performance - Male ("Friends In Low
Places").
Garth
Brooks was certified 2x platinum.
No
Fences was certified 3x platinum.
No
Fences was certified 4x platinum.
 Garth's third LP, Ropin'
The Wind, became the first country LP to
debut at #1 on the pop charts and when on to
spend 18 weeks at #1. Brooks continued to
wrack up millions in LP sales without
stepping foot in the pop singles world.
Country hits included "Rodeo,"
"Papa Loved Mama," and the #1 hits,
"Shameless" (penned by Billy
Joel) and "What She's Doing
Now." Sales for Ropin'
The Wind exceeded 14 million
copies in the U.S.
No
Fences was certified 5x platinum.
Ropin'
The Wind was certified 4x platinum.
Ropin'
The Wind was certified 5x platinum.
During the year, Garth won 6
Billboard Music Awards for Top Album Artist,
Top Country Artist, Top Country Album Artist,
Top Country Artist (combined LPs &
singles), Top Country Singles Artist, and Top
Pop Album Artist - Male and 6 Country Music
Awards for Album of the Year (No
Fences), Entertainer of the Year,
Single of the Year ("Friends In Low
Places"), Song of the Year ("The
Dance"), Top Male Vocalist of the Year,
and Video of the Year ("The
Dance").
Garth
Brooks was certified 3x platinum, No
Fences was certified 6x platinum, and Ropin'
The Wind was certified 6x platinum.
Garth won 3 American Music
Awards for Favorite Country Male Artist, Favorite Country Single ("The Thunder
Rolls"), and Favorite Country Album (No
Fences) and was also nominted in the
Favorite Country Album category for Ropin'
The Wind.
Garth won his first Grammy
Award for Best Country Vocal
Performance - Male (Ropin'
The Wind) and was nominated for Best Music Video, Short Form ("The Thunder
Rolls").
Garth topped the Billboard
Country Singles chart for 4 weeks with
"What She's Doing Now."
No
Fences was certified 7x platinum and Ropin'
The Wind was certified 7x platinum.
Garth won 3 more Country Music
Awards for Entertainer of the Year, Male
Vocalist of the Year, and a Special
Achievement Award.
No
Fences was certified 8x platinum.
Garth
Brooks was certified 4x platinum and Ropin'
The Wind was certified 8x platinum.
Garth topped the Billboard
Country Singles chart for 1 week with
"The River."
 Garth released a holiday LP, Beyond
The Season, which continued Garth's
amazing record selling abilities - selling
over 3 million copies in the U.S. Garth said
of making the LP: "Beyond
The Season hands down, without a doubt, is
the most fun record that I've ever made. You
always cut Christmas albums, it seems in the
middle of summer for some reason to have them
prepared in time for Christmas. And we did
this one in June and July of '92. I remember
Mark Miller the engineer, had strung
Christmas lights all through the studio, put
the fake snow and turned the air conditioning
down. It was a blast. This album I would make
every day of my life if I could. Totally no
pressure, you're singing about what counts
and that's the feeling of Christmas. Which in
my opinion should be shared everyday of the
year, instead of just one day of the
year."
 The release of The
Chase allowed Garth to change from
the typical country music formula with the
addition of gospel. Garth describes the LP as
his "most personal album... This is as
much me as anybody has ever seen." The
LP didn't sell as well as his previous LPs,
possibly due to change in style, yet the LP
still sold over 8 million copies. Critics
argued that Garth's popularity may have
peaked. The LP also contained a track
supporting gay rights called "We Shall
Be Free" and the hit "Somewhere
Other Than The Night."
Garth scored big with television
ratings with an NBC special.
No
Fences was certified 9x platinum.
The
Chase topped the Billboard Top
Country Albums chart for 16 weeks.
Garth topped the Billboard LP
chart for 7 weeks with The
Chase.
Beyond
The Season was certified 2x platinum and The
Chase was certified 5x platinum.
Ropin'
The Wind was certified 9x platinum.
Garth won an American Music
Award for Favorite Country Male Artist and was nominated for Favorite Country Single ("The
River").
Garth topped
the Billboard Top Country Singles chart for a
week with "Somewhere Other Than The
Night."
Garth was nominated for 2 Grammy Awards for Best Country Vocal
Performance - Male (The
Chase) and Best
Country Vocal Collaboration ("Whatcha
Gonna Do With A Cowboy" with Chris
LeDoux).
No
Fences was certified 10x platinum.
Garth was named the World's
Best-selling Country Artist of the Year at
the World Music Awards.
Garth topped
the Billboard Top Country Singles chart for a
week with "That Summer."
 Garth released In
Pieces and showed that he had returned
to the country formula that worked well for
him in the past. The LP was critically
praised and sold well with sales surpassing 8
million copies in the U.S. Garth said of the
LP, "In
Pieces, was just time, to smile. It
was time to laugh, it was time to get loud.
It's definitely the most live album that
we've ever cut."
Garth
Brooks was certified 5x platinum.
Garth topped
the Billboard Top Country Singles chart for 2
weeks with "Ain't Going Down (Till The
Sun Comes Up)."
In
Pieces topped the Billboard 200 Pop
Albums chart for 5 weeks and Top Country
Albums chart for 7 weeks.
In
Pieces was certified 3x platinum.
Rolling
Stone: "The 100 Top Music Videos" included "The
Thunder Rolls" at # 87.
Garth topped the Billboard
Year-End Charts as the Top Pop Artist
(singles & albums), Top Pop Artist - Male
(singles & albums), Top Billboard 200
Album Artist, Top Billboard 200 Album Artist
- Male, Top Country Artist (singles &
albums), Top Country Artist - Male (singles
& albums), Top Country Album Artist, Top
Country Album Artist - Male, Top Hot Country
Singles & Tracks Artist, and the Top Hot
Country Singles & Tracks Artist - Male.
Garth topped
the Billboard Top Country Singles chart for a
week with "American Honky-Tonk Bar
Association."
Throughout the year Garth won an
ASCAP Award for Songwriter of the Year, a
People's Choice Award for Favorite Male
Musical Performance, and a World Music Award
for World's Best-Selling Country Artist of
the Year .
In
Pieces was certified 4x platinum.
Garth won a American Music
Award for Favorite Country Male Artist and was nominated for
Favorite Country Album (In
Pieces).
Garth was nominated for a Grammy
Award for Best Country Vocal
Performance - Male ("Ain't Going Down (Til
The Sun Comes Up)").
 Garth recorded a cover tune for
a Kiss tribute LP - the
track, "Hard Luck Woman," became Garth's
first Top 40 pop hit.
from the Kiss
My Ass: Classic Kiss Regrooved compilation
ARC chart run: 38 - 33 - 26 - 23 - 21 - 27 - off
A collection of 10 favorite
Garth singles could also be found at your
local McDonalds when The Garth Brooks
Collection was sold exclusively at the
fast food chain for charity late in the year.
Over 3 million dollars was made from Garth's
collection alone.
No
Fences was certified 11x platinum.
Garth
Brooks was certified 6x platinum , In
Pieces was certified 5x platinum, and Ropin'
The Wind was certified 10x platinum.
 A greatest hits compilation for
retail, The
Hits, was released and sold over 10
million copies.
Garth won an ASCAP Award for
Songwriter of the Year and 2 Country Music
Awards for Entertainer of the Year and Video
of the Year ("We Shall Be Free").
The
Hits topped the Billboard Country
Albums chart for 15 weeks.
Garth topped the Billboard
Year-End Charts as the Top Country
Artist (singles & albums), the Top
Country Artist - Male (singles & albums),
the Top Country Album Artist, and the Top
Country Album Artist - Male.
Garth won an American Music
Award for Favorite Country Male Artist and 2 Country Music
Awards for Video of the Year ("The Red
Strokes") and the Jim Reeves Memorial
Award.
The
Hits topped the Billboard Pop Albums
chart for 8 weeks.
No
Fences was certified 13x platinum, Ropin'
The Wind was certified 11x platinum, The
Chase was certified 6x platinum, and The
Hits was certified 5x platinum.
The
Hits was certified 6x platinum.
The
Hits was certified 7x platinum.
The
Hits was certified 8x platinum.
Garth topped the Billboard
Country Singles chart for a week with
"She's Every Woman."
 Garth released Fresh
Horses with Garth credited for
songwriting on 8 of the 10 tracks. The LP has
continued to sell in true Garth-like style,
selling over 6 million copies in the U.S.
Beyond
The Season was certified 3x platinum.
Fresh
Horses topped the Billboard Country
Albums chart for 7 weeks.
Garth topped the Billboard
Year-End Chart-Toppers as the Top Billboard
200 Album Artist - Male, Top Country Album (The
Hits), Top Country Album Artist, and
Top Country Album Artist - Male.
The
Hits was the 5th biggest
selling LP of the year with sales topping 3.8
million during 1995.
Garth won 3 American Music
Awards for Favorite Country Album (The
Hits), Favorite Country Male Artist, and Favorite Artist
of the Year.
Fresh
Horses was certified 3x platinum.
Garth
Brooks was certified 7x platinum.
Garth topped the Billboard Hot
Country Singles & Tracks chart for a week
with "The Beaches Of Cheyenne."
Fresh
Horses was certified 4x platinum.
The
Hits was certified 9x platinum.
Garth won an American Music
Award for Favorite Country Male Artist and was nominated for
Favorite Country Album (Fresh
Horses).
In
Pieces was certified 6x platinum.
Garth made news when he
performed for free in Central Park, NY, and
the concert was aired on HBO. The crowd was
the largest to ever attend a concert in the
park and included special appearances by Billy
Joel and Don McLean. The concert was HBO's
most watched and highest rated original
program.
Over 139,000 tickets were sold
for 8 Garth shows in Chicago. The ticket
sales, which only took 4 hours to sell, broke
a sales record previously held by Genesis.
Rapper Warren G
filed a lawsuit against Garth over the use of
the letter 'G'. The suit contends Brooks and
his company Blue Rose, Inc., and Home Box
Office, Inc. infringed on Warren G's
trademark of 'G' on such ventures as Brook's
Central Park concert and tour, and
merchandise materials on his web site. Warren
G claims that the letter is trademarked as
the logo for his production company, G Funk.
The suit is asking for an injunction that
would stop Brooks from using the trademark as
well as compensatory and punitive damages.
 Garth's next LP, Sevens, was released. Garth
said of the LP, "I'm proud, I'm excited,
I'm nervous, and it feels good to be back in
the game again. This is a very personal
album. I only wrote six of the songs, but
there are many that are so 'me' that people I
work with every day thought I wrote
them."
Sevens debuted at #1 on the
Billboard 200 LP chart and stayed there into
the new year.
SoundScan proclaimed Garth's Sevens the fourth
best-selling LP of 1997 - selling over 3.4
million copies in the U.S.
Sevens was certified 5x
platinum.
Garth topped the Billboard
Country Singles chart with "Longneck
Bottle" for 3 weeks.
Garth topped the Billboard 200
Albums chart for 5 weeks and the Country
Albums chart for 13 weeks with Sevens.
Garth won a Country Music Award
for Entertainer of the Year and a Billboard
Music Award for Artist Achievement.
 # 128
Singles Artist of the Year
 Garth found himself in court
defending himself in a plagiarism lawsuit for
his song "Standing Outside The
Fire" on the In
Pieces LP. Guy Thomas, the plaintiff,
accused Brooks of plagiarizing his song
"Conviction Of The Heart" (which
was recorded by Kenny Loggins in 1993). The
following day, word came down that the court
case was settled between the 2 parties with
an unspecified settlement.
Garth won a Grammy Award for
Best Country Collaboration with Vocals for
"In Another's Eyes" (with Trisha
Yearwood from her LP, Songbook) and was nominated for
Best Country Song (songwriter) ("In
Another's Eyes" with Trisha
Yearwood).
Garth donated $1 million for the
construction of a children's zoo in
Nashville, TN.
Garth announced at his
appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show
that he would donate the proceeds of one
week's worth of sales for Sevens to Oprah's
Angel Network (February 9th - 15th). The
result: the LP sales jumped from over 46,000
a week to 125,000 and the LP returned to the
Top 10. The charitable offer was extended
when Garth announced he would continue for
another week if the sales topped 100,000
units.
Warren G and
Garth reached an agreement over the use of
the letter "G" which was the
subject of lawsuits between the 2 performers
since October, '97. Brooks issued a statement
which included: "I learned from Warren G
that the letter 'G' has a special
significance to him and to some members of
(his) community in that it symbolizes kids
and young people who are worthy of respect
because of their positive contributions to
the world. Now knowing how much the symbol
'G' means to Warren, I will strive to reach
the standard that 'G' represents to him and
to his community." The 2 also issued a
joint statement which stated that since they
both shared the same goals, "...there
was no point to fight about a positive
symbol."
 Garth could heard on the
soundtrack to Hope
Floats with his version of Bob
Dylan's "To Make You Feel My
Love"
(which could also be found in Garth's Fresh
Horses).
The box set, The
Limited Series, was released and debuted at #1
on the Billboard 200 LP chart - where it
spent 2 weeks. The LP topped the Billboard
Country Albums chart for 4 weeks.
Garth talked with Wall of Sound
about plans for a live LP, directing videos,
and getting into films in the future. Brooks
also talked about directing videos for the
tracks "Anonymous" and "I
Don't Have To Wonder."
No
Fences was certified 14x platinum.
Garth hit the country charts
with "Burnin' The Roadhouse Down"
(with Steve Wariner).
Garth topped the Billboard
Country Singles chart with "Two Pina
Coladas" for a week.
Fresh
Horses was certified 6x platinum, Garth
Brooks was certified 9x platinum, In
Pieces was certified 8x
platinum, No
Fences was certified 16x platinum, The
Chase was certified 8x platinum, and Ropin'
The Wind was certified 13x platinum.
Garth hit the Top 40 with "To Make You Feel My
Love."
Sevens was certified 6x
platinum.
Garth topped the Billboard
Country Singles chart with "To Make You Feel My
Love"
for a week.
Ropin'
The Wind was certified 14x platinum.
 Garth released his first live
LP, Garth
Double Live - a 2-set with over 20
live tracks and 3 new tracks: "It's Your
Song," "Tearin' It Up (And Burnin'
It Down)," and a duet with Trisha
Yearwood, "Wild As The
Wind." . The live tracks span
performances from '91 to '98. Brooks also
appeared live on the day the LP was released,
but only on closed-circuit TV at Wal-Mart
stores. The hype over Brook's new live LP
seemed to work - the LP was the biggest
seller from "Super Tuesday" (which
also saw new releases by Mariah
Carey, Whitney
Houston, Method Man,
and Jewel), and broke previous
first week records with sales of 1.09 million
copies.
The
Hits was certified 10x platinum.
Garth
Double Live topped the Billboard Country
Album chart for 8 weeks.
Garth's LP, Double
Live, was the 7th biggest-selling LP
of 1998 with 3.9 million copies sold in the
U.S.
Double
Live was certified 12x platinum and
topped the Billboard 200 Albums chart for 5
weeks and the Billboard Country Albums chart
for 8 weeks.
Garth topped the Billboard Year-End
Charts
as the Top Billboard 200 Album Artist - Male,
Top Country Artist (singles & albums),
Top Country Artist - Male (singles &
albums), Top Country Album Artist, Top
Country Album Artist - Male, Top Hot Country
Singles & Tracks Artist, Top Hot Country
Singles & Tracks Artist - Male, and with
the Top Country Album (Sevens).
 The awards piled up for Garth
during the year with 4 Country Music Awards
for Album of the Year for Sevens, Entertainer of the
Year, Male Vocalist of the
Year, and Vocal Event of the Year for
"In Another's Eyes" (with Trisha
Yearwood), a People's Choice Award
for Favorite Male Musical Performer and was
nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding
Performance in a Variety or Music Program (Garth
Live From Central Park).
 # 71
Singles Artist of the Year
Garth won 2 American Music
Awards for Favorite Country Male Artist and Favorite Country
Album (Sevens).
Garth was nominated for 3 Grammy Awards for Best Country Album for Sevens, Best Country
Collaboration for "Where Your Road
Leads" (with Trisha Yearwood),
and Best Country Vocal
Performance - Male for "To Make You Feel My
Love."
Garth won 2 Country Music Awards
for Entertainer of the Year and Artist of the
Decade and was also nominated for Male
Vocalist of the Year, Vocal Event of the Year
("Burnin' The Roadhouse Down" (with
Steve Wariner)), and Album
of the Year (Double
Live).
Garth temporarily traded in his
cowboy hat for a baseball cap when he
attended spring training with the San Diego
Padres. Garth took home a Blockbuster Award
for Favorite Male Artist - Country.
Garth was nominated for a
Country Music Association Award for Best
Entertainer. Garth hit the Top 40 with "Lost
In You."
 A Garth tribute LP was released:
Hats
Off: A Tribute To Garth Brooks featuring the Beach Boys, Chicago,
Toto, Winger,
and more.
Garth hit the pop Top 40 with
"Lost
In You"
from the LP, Chris
Gaines: Greatest Hits. The LP is best
described as a a soundtrack for the film The
Lamb - a movie that was in the works but
never surfaced. Garth took on the persona of
Chris Gaines in many television appearances
to promote the LP.
 Garth released his 2nd holiday
LP, The
Magic Of Christmas and hit the Top 40
with "Right
Now."
Chris
Gaines: Greatest Hits was certified 2x
platinum.
Garth said that he might retire
by the end of next year to spend more time
with his family. Garth was interviewed on Crook
& Chase (TNN) and talked about
possibly retiring after a major event at the
end of 2000.
The
Magic Of Christmas was certified platinum
and topped the Billboard Country Albums chart
for a week.
The single "Lost
In You"
was certified gold.
Garth topped the Billboard
Year-End Chart-Toppers as the Top Billboard
200 Album Artist - Male, Top Country Album
Artist - Male, Top Country Singles Sales
Artist, and with the Top Country Single Sales
("It Don't Matter To The Sun / Lost In
You").
Garth was named the Top Country
Artist of the 90's by Billboard magazine.
 # 158
Singles Artist of the Year
Garth won 2 American Music
Awards for Favorite
Male Country Artist and Favorite Country
Album (Double
Live).
Sevens was certified 7x
platinum.
Garth went back to Florida to
spend 34 days spring training as 3rd baseman
with the New York Mets. His baseball earnings
would be donated to a children's charity.
 Garth joined Melissa
Etheridge, Queen
Latifah, the Pet Shop Boys,
k.d.
lang, and George
Michael to perform in Washington, DC as
part of 'Equality Rocks' - a benefit concert
in support of a gay and lesbian human rights
campaign (Human Rights Campaign).
Garth could be heard on Steve
Wariner's new LP, Faith
In You on the duet "Katie Wants A
Fast One."
Garth was awarded Favorite Male
Artist, Country at the Blockbuster Awards.
Double
Live was certified 13x platinum.
Garth took on the role of
'lifesaver' when he rescued 2 boys from a
fire heading towards their home in Oklahoma.
Garth won a Radio Music Award
for Artist of the Year: Country Radio. Garth
also produced an LP for Tyler England.
 # 140
Singles Artist of the Year
Double
Live was certified 14x platinum
whcih made it the best-selling live LP in
history.
Garth was nominated for a Golden
Globe Award for Best Original Song
("When You Come Back To Me Again"
from Frequency).
Garth won a People's Choice
Award for Favorite Male Musical Performer.
Garth hit the Top 10 on the
Country charts with "Wild Horses."
 Garth released his next LP Scarecrow. The LP featured the
duet with George Jones - "Beer
Run."
Garth could be seen on CBS with
3 Coast To Coast Live specials.
Scarecrow topped the Billboard
200 Albums chart for a week, the Internet
Album Sales chart for a week, and the Country
Albums chart for 7 weeks - selling over
460,000 copies in its 1st week of release in
the US.
Scarecrow was certified 3x
platinum.
Garth won a People's Choice
Award for Favorite Male Musical Performer.
Garth was honored with the Award
Of Merit at the American Music
Awards.
Garth was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Country
Collaboration with Vocals ("Beer Run (B
Double E Double Are You In?)" with George
Jones).
Garth was honored with the
Hitmaker Award at the Songwriters Hall of
Fame.
Double
Live was certified 16x
platinum.
Garth was
nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Country
Collaboration with Vocals ("Squeeze Me
In" with Trisha Yearwood).
Garth got engaged to Trisha
Yearwood.
Garth performed on Shelter
From The Storm: A Concert For The Gulf Coast
- a benefit program shown on all the major
networks simultaneously to raise money for
those affected by Hurricane Katrina.
Garth and Trisha
Yearwood were married.
Garth
Double Live was certified 20x
platinum, Sevens was certified 9x
platinum, Scarecrow was certified
5x platinum, and The Lost Sessions was
certified 2x platinum.
Garth was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best
Country Collaboration with Vocals ("Love
Will Always Win" with Trisha Yearwood).
 Garth topped the Billboard Hot
Country Songs chart with "More Than A
Memory."
Garth released a hits
compilation - Ultimate
Hits. The set includes 2 CDs and a
DVD.
Garth topped the Billboard
Country Albums chart with Ultimate
Hits.
Ultimate
Hits was certified 5x platinum.
Garth was honored at the Academy
of Country Music Awards with the Crystal
Milestone Award.
Garth was nominated for 2 American Music
Awards for Favorite Country Male Artist and Favorite Country Album.
Garth topped the Billboard
Year-End Charts as the Top Country
Album Artist - Male.
Garth topped the
Billboard Country Albums chart and Billboard
200 LP chart with Blame
It All On My Roots: Five Decades Of
Influences - only available at Wal-mart
when released.
- December 16: Garth topped the
Billboard Country Airplay chart with
"Ask Me How I Know."
- December 16: Garth topped the
Billboard Country Albums chart with The
Anthology: Part 1, The First Five Years.
- October 3: A complaint by
woman who worked with Garth was filed in
California accusing him of sexual assault
and battery in 2019.
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Garth Brooks
Released: April 12, 1989
US: 9x Platinum
Billboard
peak:
# 13
Rolling Stone
review: 
Tracks: "Not
Counting You" - "I've Got A
Good Thing Going" - "If
Tomorrow Never Comes" - "Uptown
Down-Home Good Ol' Boy" -
"Everytime That It Rains" -
"Alabama Clay" - "Much Too
Young ( To Feel This Damn Old)" -
"Cowboy Bill" - "Nobody
Gets Off In This Town" - "I
Know One" - "The Dance" |
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No Fences
Released: September, 1990
US: 18x Platinum
Billboard
peak:
# 3
Rolling Stone
review: 
Tracks: "The Thunder
Rolls" - "New Way To Fly"
- "Two Of A Kind, Workin' On A Full
House" - "Victim Of The
Game" - "Friends In Low
Places" - "This Ain't
Tennessee" - "Wild Horses"
- "Unanswered Prayers" -
"Same Old Story" - "Mr.
Blue" - "Wolves" |
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Ropin' The Wind
Released: September, 1991
US: 14x Platinum
Billboard
peak:
# 1 (for 18 weeks)
Rolling Stone
review:
Tracks: "Against The
Grain" - "Rodeo" -
"What She's Doing Now" -
"Burning Bridges" - "Which
One Of Them" - "Papa Loved
Mama" - "Shameless" -
"Cold Shoulder" - "We Bury
The Hatchet" - "In Lonesome
Dove" - "The River" |
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Beyond The Season
Released: August, 1992
US: 3x Platinum
Billboard
peak:
# 2
Tracks: "Go Tell It
On The Mountain" - "God Rest Ye
Merry Gentleman" - "Old Man's
Back In Town" - "Gift" -
"Unto You This Night" -
"White Christmas" -
"Friendly Beasts" - "Santa
Looked A Lot Like Daddy" -
"Silent Night" - "Mary's
Dream" - "What Child Is
This?" |
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The Chase
Released: September, 1992
US: 8x Platinum
Billboard
peak:
# 1 (for 7 weeks)
Tracks: "We Shall Be
Free" - "Somewhere Other Than
The Night" - "Mr. Right" -
"Every Now And Then" -
"Walking After Midnight" -
"Dixie Chicken" -
"Learning To Live Again" -
"That Summer" - "Something
With A Ring To It" - "Night
Rider's Lament" - "Face To
Face" |
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In Pieces
Released: August, 1993
US: 10x Platinum
Billboard
peak:
# 1 (for 5 weeks)
Rolling Stone
review:
Tracks: "Standing
Outside The Fire" - "The Night
I Called The Old Man Out" -
"American Honky-Tonk Bar
Association" - "One Night A
Day" - "Ain't Going Down (Til
The Sun Comes Up)" -
"Anonymous" - "Kickin' And
Screamin'" - "The Red
Strokes" - "Callin' Baton
Rouge" - "The Night Will Only
Know" - "The Cowboy Song" |
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The Hits
Released: December, 1994
US: 10x Platinum
Billboard
peak:
# 1 (for 8 weeks)
Tracks: "Ain't Goin'
Down (Til The Sun Comes Up)" -
"Friends In Low Places" -
"Callin' Baton Rouge" -
"The River" - "Much Too
Young (To Feel This Damn Old)" -
"The Thunder Rolls" -
"American Honky-Tonk Bar
Association" - "If Tomorrow
Never Comes" - "Unanswered
Prayers" - "Standing Outside
The Fire" - "Rodeo" -
"What She's Dong Now" -
"We Shall Be Free" - "Papa
Loved Mama" - "Shameless"
- "Two Of A Kind, Workin' On A Full
House" - "That Summer" -
"The Dance" |
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Fresh Horses
Released: November, 1995
US: 8x Platinum
Billboard
peak:
# 2
Tracks: "The Old
Stuff" - "Cowboys And
Angels" - "The Fever" -
"That Ol' Wind" -
"Rollin'" - "The
Change" - "The Beaches Of
Cheyenne" - "To Make You Feel My
Love" - "It's Midnight
Cinderella" - "She's Every
Woman" - "Ireland" |
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Sevens
Released: November, 1997
US: 9x Platinum
Billboard
peak:
# 1 (for 5 weeks)
Rolling Stone
review:
Tracks: "Longneck
Bottle" - "How You Ever Gonna
Know" - "She's Gonna Make
It" - "I Don't Have To
Wonder" - "Two Pina
Coladas" - "Cowboy
Cadillac" - "Fit For A
King" - "Do What You Gotta
Do" - "You Move Me" -
"In Another's Eyes" -
"When There's No One Around" -
"Friend To Me" - "Take The
Keys To My Heart" - "Belleau
Wood" |
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The Limited Series (Box
Set)
Released: May, 1998
Billboard
peak:
# 1 (for 2 weeks)
Tracks: "Not
Counting You" - "I've Got A
Good Thing Going" - "If
Tomorrow Never Comes" - "Uptown
Down-Home Good Ol' Boy" -
"Everytime That It Rains" -
"Alabama Clay" - "Much Too
Young ( To Feel This Damn Old)" -
"Cowboy Bill" - "Nobody
Gets Off In This Town" - "I
Know One" - "The Dance" -
"The Thunder Rolls" - "New
Way To Fly" - "Two Of A Kind,
Workin' On A Full House" -
"Victim Of The Game" -
"Friends In Low Places" -
"This Ain't Tennessee" -
"Wild Horses" -
"Unanswered Prayers" -
"Same Old Story" - "Mr.
Blue" - "Wolves" -
"Against The Grain" -
"Rodeo" - "What She's
Doing Now" - "Burning
Bridges" - "Which One Of
Them" - "Papa Loved Mama"
- "Shameless" - "Cold
Shoulder" - "We Bury The
Hatchet" - "In Lonesome
Dove" - "The River" -
"We Shall Be Free" -
"Somewhere Other Than The
Night" - "Mr. Right" -
"Every Now And Then" -
"Walking After Midnight" -
"Dixie Chicken" -
"Learning To Live Again" -
"That Summer" - "Something
With A Ring To It" - "Night
Rider's Lament" - "Face To
Face" - "Standing Outside The
Fire" - "The Night I Called The
Old Man Out" - "American
Honky-Tonk Bar Association" -
"One Night A Day" - "Ain't
Goin' Down (Til The Sun Comes Up)" -
"Anonymous" - "Kickin' And
Screamin'" - "The Red
Strokes" - "Callin' Baton
Rouge" - "The Night Will Only
Know" - "The Cowboy Song"
- "The Old Stuff" -
"Cowboys And Angels" -
"The Fever" - "That Ol'
Wind" - "Rollin'" -
"The Change" - "The
Beaches Of Cheyenne" - "To Make You Feel My
Love" - "It's Midnight
Cinderella" - "She's Every
Woman" - "Ireland" |
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Double Live
Released: November 17, 1998
US: 23x Platinum
Billboard
peak:
# 1 (for 5 weeks)
Live Tracks: "Callin'
Baton Rouge" - "Two Of A Kind,
Workin' On A Full House" -
"Shameless" - "Papa Loved
Mama" - "Thunder Rolls" -
"We Shall Be Free" -
"Unanswered Prayers" -
"Standing Outside The Fire" -
"Longneck Bottle" - "It's
Your Song" - "Much Too Young
(To Feel This Damn Old)" - "The
River" - "Tearin' It Up (And
Burnin' It Down)" - "Ain't
Goin' Down (Til The Sun Comes Up)" -
"Rodeo" - "Beaches Of
Cheyenne" - "Two Pina
Coladas" - "Wild As The
Wind" - "To Make You Feel My
Love" - "That
Summer" - "American Honky-Tonk
Bar Association" - "If Tomorrow
Never Comes" - "Fever" -
"Friends In Low Places" -
"The Dance" |
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Chris Gaines: Greatest
Hits
Released: September, 1999
US: 2x Platinum
Billboard
peak:
# 2
Rolling Stone
review:
Tracks: "That's The
Way I Remember It" - "Lost In You" - "Snow
In July" - "Driftin' Away"
- "Way Of The Girl" -
"Unsigned Letter" - "It
Don't Matter To The Sun" - "Right Now" - "Main
Street" - "White Flag" -
"Digging For Gold" -
"Maybe" - "My Love Tells
Me So" |
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The Magic Of Christmas
Released: November, 1999
US: Platinum
Billboard
peak:
# 7
Tracks: "Call Me
Claus" - "It's The Most
Wonderful TIme Of The Year" -
"Have Yourself A Merry Little
Christmas" - "Let It Snow! Let
It Snow! Let It Snow!" -
"Winter Wonderland" -
"Mary Had A Little Lamb" -
"The Christmas Song" -
"Baby Jesus Is Born" -
"Sleigh RIde" - "Silver
Bells" - "(There's No Place
Like) Home For The Holidays" -
"'Zat You, Santa Claus?" -
"Wise Men's Journey" - "O
Little Town Of Bethlehem" |
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Scarecrow
Released: November, 2001
US: 5x Platinum
Billboard
peak:
# 1 (for 1 week)
Tracks: "Why Ain't I
Running" - "Beer Run"
(with George Jones) - "Wrapped Up In
You" - "The Storm" -
"Thicker Than Blood" -
"Big Money" - "Squeeze Me
In" (with Trisha Yearwood) -
"Mr. Midnight" - "Pushing
Up Daises" - "Rodeo Or
Mexico" - "Don't Cross The
River" - "When You Come Back To
Me Again" |
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Ultimate Hits
Released: November, 2007
US: 10x Platinum
Billboard
peak:
# 3
Tracks: "Much Too
Young (To Feel This Damn Old)" -
"If Tomorrow Never Comes" -
"The Dance" - "Friends In
Low Places" - "Unanswered
Prayers" - "Two Of A Kind,
Workin' On A Full House" - "The
Thunder Rolls" - "Rodeo" -
"Shameless" - "Papa Loved
Mama" - "What She's Doing
Now" - "The River" -
"We Shall Be Free" -
"Learning To Live Again" -
"That Summer" - "Somewhere
Other Than The Night" -
"Standing Outside The Fire" -
"Ain't Goin' Down ('Til The Sun
Comes Up)" - "Callin' Baton
Rouge" - "American Honky-Tonk
Bar Association" - "The
Fever" - "To Make You Feel My
Love" - "The Beaches
Of Cheyenne" - "The
Change" - "Two Pina
Coladas" - "Longneck
Bottle" - "In Another's
Eyes" - "Wrapped Up In
You" - "Beer Run" -
"Good Ride Cowboy" -
"Midnight Sun" - "Leave A
Light On" - "Workin' For A
Livin'" - "More Than A
Memory" |
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Blame It All On My
Roots: Five Decades Of Influences
Released: November, 2013
Billboard
peak:
# 1 |
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Man Against Machine
Released: November 10, 2014
US: Platinum
Billboard
peak:
# 4
Tracks: "Man Against
Machine" - "She's Tired Of
Boys" - "Cold Like That" -
"All-American Kid" -
"Mom" - "Wrong About
You" - "Rodeo And Juliet"
- "Midnight Train" -
"Cowboys Forever" -
"People Loving People" -
"Send 'Em Down The Road" -
"Fish" - "You Wreck
Me" - "Tacoma" |
Amazon.mp3 |
Christmas Together (with Trisha
Yearwood)
Released: November 11, 2016
Tracks: "I'm
Beginning To See The Light" -
"Ugly Christmas Sweater" -
"Santa Baby" - "Feliz
Navidad" - "What Are You Doing
New Years Eve" - "Marmallow
World" - "Merry Christmas Means
I Love You" - "Hard Candy
Christmas" - "Baby, It's Cold
Outside" - "The Man With The
Bag" - "What I'm Thankful
For" (with James Taylor) |
Amazon.mp3 |
Gunslinger
Released: November 25, 2016
Billboard
Top 200 LPs
peak: # 25
Tracks: "Honky Tonk
Somewhere" - "Weekend" -
"Ask Me How I Know" -
"Baby, Let's Lay Down And
Dance" - "He Really Loves
Me" - "Pure Adrenaline" -
"Whiskey To Wine" - "Bang!
Bang!" - "Cowboys And
Friends" - "8teen" |
vinyl |
Garth Brooks: The Legacy
Collection (box set)
Released: November 1, 2019
Billboard
Top 200 LPs
peak: # 149 |
Amazon.mp3 |
Fun
Released: November 20, 2020
Tracks: "The Road
I'm On" - "That's What Cowboys
Do" - "All Day Long" -
"Shallow" (with Trisha
Yearwood) - "Dive Bar" (with
Blake Shelton) - "Amen" -
"The Courage Of Love" - "I
Can Be Me With You" - "Message
In A Bottle" - "Stronger Than
Me" - "(A Hard Way To Make An)
Easy Livin'" - "Where The Cross
Don't Burn" (featuring Charley
Pride) - "Party Gras (The Mardi Gras
Song)" - "(Sometimes You've Got
To Die To) Live Again" |
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