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Garth Brooks is one of the biggest crossover country music singers of all time. His combination of cheerful enthusiasm and pudgy boy-next-door looks was a consistent hit with both country and pop music audiences, who bought millions of copies of albums including Ropin' the Wind (1991), The Chase (1992), and Fresh Horses (1995). His hit singles included "Friends in Low Places," "The Thunder Rolls" and "Shameless." The Garth Brooks craze was hottest in the mid-1990s, when he won dozens of industry awards and was named both Country and Pop Artist of the Year by Billboard magazine.
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Notes: In 1998, Garth Brooks, No Fences, Ropin’ the Wind, The Chase, In Pieces, and Fresh Horses were packaged as a box set called The Limited Series. A bonus track was added to each album. This album’s track was ‘Uptown Down-Home Good Ol’ Boy.’
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On Garth Brooks' selftitled debut, his fusion of rock roll and traditional country genres like honky tonk and Western swing is already fully formed as is his gift for extended metaphors. One listen to his signature song and breakthrough hit, "The Dance," proves that, which is why he broke away from the hat acts that he was initially grouped with. Nevertheless, Garth Brooks is the most straightforward of all of his albums; Brooks sticks with neotraditional country on about half of the tracks. He sings traditional country quite well "Not Counting You" is a particularly effective honky tonk number, demonstrating a debt to both George Jones and George Strait but what makes the album an exciting debut are songs like the genrebending ballads "The Dance" and "If Tomorrow Never Comes"; and that is the style that would bring him mass success with his next album, No Fences. [Brooks rereleased the album in 2000, adding the track "Uptown Down Home Good Ol' Boy."]
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NASHVILLE, Tenn., May 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Garth Brooks sets another milestone. He is the first artist to debut at #1 on two charts with a boxed set. His 6 CD collection, ``The Limited Series,'' tops the Country chart and is the first boxed set to reach #1 on the Top 200 album chart since the inception of Soundscan in 1991. First week sales for the set were 372,410 units, a record for first week sales of any boxed set in the Soundscan era. The only other artist to debut at #1 with a boxed set is Bruce Springsteen, in 1986.
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The fastest selling solo artist in music history, Garth Brooks has sold in excess of 100 million albums in just 10 years, now topping 117 million. His body of work propelled country music as a genre to the front pages of newspapers worldwide and the covers of magazines, to the point where Forbes declared on its cover, "Country Conquers Rock." and featured Garth in a major music piece. And, he accomplished it without ever releasing a song to pop radio. The key to his record-setting success lies within the personality and talent of Garth Brooks. It has been said that through the 1990s, Garth's only real competition was himself.
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Garth Brooks announced his impending retirement from country music in October 2000, he had become, in just nine meteoric years, the best-selling solo artist in the history of recorded music. In the United States alone, his albums had sold more than 100 million copies. Brooks' live concerts were equally pace setting. During his 1996-1998 concert tour, he played 350 shows in 100 cities and sold more than 5.3 million tickets. He sold more than 1.8 million tickets in 1996, prompting the trade magazine Amusement Business to rank it as the top country music tour of all time.
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