Garth Brooks

Troyal Garth Brooks (born February 7, 1962 in Tulsa, Oklahoma) is an American singer, songwriter, actor, and charity director who performs country music.

Achievements

Charts and sales

• Garth Brooks is the only artist to have seven albums debut at number one on both The Billboard 200 and Billboard's Top Country Albums charts: Ropin' the Wind, The Chase, In Pieces, Sevens, The Limited Series, Double Live, Scarecrow, in addition Fresh Horses debuted at #1 on the country chart and #2 on the pop 200.
• Capitol Records shipped 5 million copies of The Chase which, at the time, was the largest initial shipment in music history.
• Fresh Horses made history as the first album to have 8 out of 10 tracks on the country music singles charts at the same time.
• Follow-up Sevens broke his own record, with 12 out of 14 tracks on the singles charts.
• Every Rosemont Horizon (now Allstate Arena) record was broken by Garth when he sold over 140,000 concert tickets in 1997 alone.
• Garth Brooks was the first artist to debut a live album at number one on two charts (Double Live).
• Double Live is the best-selling live album in music history.
• Double Live set the all-time record for first week sales 1,085,373 copies. (However, this record was broken by Britney Spears in 2000 (1.3 million with Oops!... I Did It Again), Eminem (1.7 million with The Marshall Mathers LP), and *NSYNC (2.41 million with No Strings Attached.) In total the double live album went on to sell in excess of 32 million units world-wide.
• This was also the record for any one week sales period for any genre artist in history.
• Garth's Central Park concert audience is generally estimated as being the largest for any concert there.
• Garth had 3 albums at the top of the Billboard pop charts at the same time in 1998 (Sevens, The Limited Series, and Double Live). He was the first to do this since Elton John in 1975.
• Garth Brooks has four albums certified RIAA diamond (more than 10 million copies), a record for a male solo performer, and the second overall (behind The Beatles with six).
• In the United States alone Brooks has sold over 100 million albums, the fourth-highest such total ever.

Awards

• 2 Grammy Awards (total of 6 nominations)
• 16 American Music Awards
• 11 Country Music Association Awards
• 18 Academy of Country Music Awards
• 5 World Music Awards
• 10 People's Choice Awards
• 24 Billboard Music Awards
• 2 ASCAP Awards
• 2 Blockbuster Awards
• American Music Awards, Artist of the Decade (1990s)
• Academy of Country Music Awards, Artist of the Decade (1990s)
• Recording Industry Association of America, Artist of the Century (1900s)
• 1 Radio Music Award
• 7 Primetime Emmy Award nominations (Outstanding in a Variety of Music Program)
• 1 Golden Globe nomination (Best Original Song)
• Songwriters Hall of Fame: 2002