His music sounds much as it did before he entered semi-retirement, in 2001-pop country, but at this point your father’s version of it: stadium rock and piano ballads, marked by a bit of fiddle or slide guitar, and with no hip-hop influences to be found. But the lyrics-“Yeah, we're proud to be young / We stick to our guns / We love who we love and we wanna have fun”-identifies its singers as defiant members of an insular and unyielding American subgroup, and you're either in or you're out.īrooks, then, who is fifty-two, is doubly out of step. A hit song like this year’s “ This Is How We Roll,” by the duo Florida Georgia Line, with a cameo by another current megastar, Luke Bryan, may sound like any other modern, genre-busting pop song. And country music has changed in several rather contradictory ways: it has become more musically innovative and inclusive at the same time that, lyrically and thematically, it has grown, in large part, more conservative and tribal. (Brooks has sold more than a hundred and thirty million in twenty-five years). Nobody but Taylor Swift seems to sell records anymore, in any genre. This week, with “Man Against Machine,” the dormant king of pop country returns to a different world. Garth Brooks last released an album of original material thirteen years ago.

Garth Brooks in.Garth Brooks performs at the We Are One concert to celebrate the 2009 inauguration of Barack Obama. Brooks is currently in a partnership with Amazon Music for digital and streaming services, which he signed in 2016 and again in 2019. Most of his compact discs were remastered/reissued in 2000, and again in 20 via GhostTunes, Brooks' online music store, on March 3, 2017, GhostTunes was absorbed into Amazon Music. Billboard lists Brooks as the 20th Greatest Artist of all time while Recording Industry Association of America list him as the 2nd-best-selling artist in history. Nine of his albums have achieved Diamond status in the United States, the most for any artist ever.

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American Music Awards honored him the 'Artist of the 90s Decade' and iHeartRadio Music Awards also honored him the 'Artist of the Decade'. According to RIAA, Brooks is the top-selling solo artist of all time with 157 million certified albums in the US. He has sold estimated over 170 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling music artists in history. The discography for American country music singer-songwriter Garth Brooks consists of 16 studio albums, two live albums and 51 singles. Brooks performing at the Inauguration of Joe Biden in January 2021

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