Garth
Brooks surprised fans with upcoming new music today, revealing that he
will duet with Blake Shelton on the track “Dive Bar.” Announcing the
news during an interview with Entertainment Tonight at
Shelton’s Ole Red Bar in Nashville, TN, Brooks also shared that fans
will get to hear the song for the first time live when he and Shelton
perform the track at Brooks’ Boise, ID’s Albertsons Stadium show on July
19. Co-written by Mitch Rossell/Bryan Kennedy/Garth Brooks, “Dive Bar”
is taken from his forthcoming studio album FUN and will be available
at country radio on 6/18 at 6am ET. This Saturday (6/8), Brooks will
play a sold-out show at Denver, CO’s Mile High Stadium.
Brooks’ upcoming performance and live song debut with Shelton in Boise,
ID is a stop on his monumental THE GARTH BROOKS STADIUM TOUR. Since
launching the tour, Brooks has played consecutive sell-outs, breaking
attendance records in St. Louis, MO at The Dome at America’s Center,
Glendale, AZ at State Farm Stadium, Gainesville, FL at Ben Hill Griffin
Stadium and two sold-out nights at Minneapolis, MN’s U.S. Bank Stadium.
Additional upcoming shows are already sold-out in Denver, CO at Mile
High Stadium on 6/8; Eugene, OR at Autzen Stadium on 6/29 with Boise,
ID’s Albertsons Stadium show on 7/20 selling out in under an hour,
averaging just over 75,000 tickets in each city.
About Garth Brooks:
Brooks has now gone vinyl with a new package titled, LEGACY. During the
first pre-sale, he smashed records with 20,000 packages sold in under 18
hours, that’s 420,000 vinyl records. Forbes
noted, “To put this in context, The Beatles were the number-one vinyl
artist in 2018 with 321,000 sales over 12 months.” Additionally, Brooks
just received iHeartRadio’s inaugural Artist of the Decade Award at the
iHeartRadio Awards in Los Angeles. In October of last year, Garth Brooks
sold out the first ever concert at Notre Dame Football Stadium. The
concert, “GARTH: LIVE AT NOTRE DAME!” aired CBS with 14 million viewers.
On November 20th, 2018 Garth released The Anthology Part III, LIVE, a
detailed look at the electrifying concerts of Garth Brooks. He has been
awarded CMA Entertainer of the Year six times, a first for any artist.
He is also the first artist in history to receive 7 Diamond awards for
the now seven albums certified by the RIAA at over 10 million album
sales each and remains the #1-selling solo artist in U.S. history
certified by the RIAA with over 148 million album sales. He has received
every accolade the recording industry can bestow on an artist. Garth
has been inducted into the International Songwriters Hall of Fame in New
York, the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, Country Music Hall of
Fame and most recently, the Musicians Hall of Fame. Last year, Garth
finished the three and a half year long, Garth Brooks World Tour with
Trisha Yearwood. The tour played 79 cities, 390 concerts with over 6.3
million tickets sold, making it the biggest North American tour in
history and the biggest American tour in the world.
Garth also has Inside Studio G, a weekly Facebook Live series. It airs
every Monday on Garth’s Facebook page at 7:00 PM EST. You can follow him
at: https://www.facebook.com/GarthBrooks, https://twitter.com/garthbrooks, http://instagram.com/garthbrooks.
About Blake Shelton:
CMA’s 2012 “Entertainer of the Year,” five-time Male Vocalist of the
Year winner and GRAMMY nominee Blake Shelton continues to add to his
superstar status. His current single “God’s Country” is rapidly
approaching Top 5 at country radio with over 75 million on-demand
streams. He performed the “southern-rockin’ country stomper” (Rolling Stone),
which made its national TV debut on the 54th ACM Awards, on the road
for his sold-out “Friends & Heroes 2019” tour this year. The arena
run was one of the only nine country tours to make Pollstar’s
Top 100 Tours in Q1 list. A member of the Grand Ole Opry, the
Platinum-selling entertainer has earned a host of honors throughout his
career including 20 ACM nominations and both the male and overall Video
of the Year trophies at the 2018 CMT Awards. As a coach for the Emmy
Award-winning television show The Voice, Shelton is a six-time
champion, most recently with his contestant Chloe Kohanski. Off stage,
he has teamed up with Ryman Hospitality to open a string of Ole Red
entertainment restaurant venues, a nod to his 2001 hit of the same name,
in his Oklahoma hometown of Tishomingo as well as Nashville and most
recently in Gatlinburg, TN. Shelton’s most recent album Texoma Shore
became his sixth record to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard Top Country
Albums chart and marked his 11th all-genre Top 10. It features the
GRAMMY-nominated “I Lived It” and his 25th No. 1 song, the
Gold-certified “I’ll Name The Dogs,” which boasts nearly 150 million
streams to date. In the week following album launch, Shelton became the
first artist in Country Aircheck / Mediabase history to have six songs
chart simultaneously.