Concert Performers Garth Brooks
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Troyal Garth Brooks (born February 7, 1962) is an American country music singer-songwriter. Successfully integrating rock elements into his recordings and live performances, Brooks soon began to dominate the country singles and country album charts and quickly crossed over into the mainstream pop arena, exposing country music to a larger audience than previously thought possible. Brooks has enjoyed one of the most successful careers in popular music history, with over 70 hit singles and 15 charted albums to his credit and over 123 million albums sold in the United States alone. Throughout the 1990s he broke records for both sales and concert attendance. In 1999, looking to expand his career boundaries, Brooks began an artistically ambitious multimedia project involving a fictitious alter ego known as Chris Gaines. Troubled by the conflicts between career and family, in 2001 Brooks officially retired from recording and performing. During this time he has sold millions of albums through an exclusive distribution deal with Wal-Mart and has sporadically released new singles. On November 6th, 2007, The Ultimate Hits was released. On August 18, 2007 at a press conference in Nashville, Brooks announced plans for a new boxed set called The Ultimate Hits. The new set features two discs containing 30 hits, a DVD featuring music videos and an updated video for "We Shall Be Free," and three new songs. The album's first single, "More Than a Memory", was released to radio on August 27, 2007. Other new songs include a duet with Huey Lewis on Lewis' 1982 hit "Workin' For a Livin'", "Midnight Sun," a song Garth co-wrote, and a bonus track, "Leave a Light On." The set was released on Brooks' own label, Pearl Records, and promoted by Big Machine Records, the label to which Brooks' wife, Trisha Yearwood, had signed only a few months before. "More Than a Memory" debuted at number one on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart dated for the week ending September 15, 2007, becoming the highest-debuting single in the chart's history. The previous record had been set only one week earlier, when Kenny Chesney's "Don't Blink" debuted at #16. On September 27, 2007, it was announced that Garth Brooks would perform at the new Sprint Center in Kansas City, Missouri with his wife Trisha Yearwood on November 14, 2007. The show was sold out in 4 minutes. Then Brooks added another 8 shows to be performed at the Sprint Center from November 5-12, which all sold out on the day of their release, October 6, 2007. Brooks also announced that the show on November 14 would be broadcast live in movie theaters all around the world and that an encore would be shown the next day November 15. It was announced on Nov 15, that GAC will air an edited version of the November 14 concert on November 23 at 8:00pm Est. The 90 minute special is called "Garth Brooks:One Man, One City, One Night." At the end of the televised concert, Garth Brooks was visibly overwhelmed by the continued adoration displayed by his fans. Addressing the concert audience as well as the viewers at home, he stated that "I promise if you wait for me, I'll be back." On November 5, The RIAA held a press conference to announce that Garth Brooks had reclaimed the top honor of being the Best Selling Solo Recording Artist in Music with sales in excess of 123 millon records sold.
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