Garth
Brooks entertained a record-breaking audience Saturday (6/8) at Denver,
CO’s Mile High Stadium with 84,500 fans, making it the “largest
ticketed event in Broncos stadium history,” (Denver Post) breaking the previous record of 77,000 set by U2 in 2011. Breaking stadium records at each stop on THE GARTH BROOKS STADIUM TOUR, Brooks has continued to show why he remains one of most powerful live draws in the world with Denver Post noting “Brooks is as famous for his concerts as he is for his songs, and it’s easy to see why.”
Since launching the tour, Brooks has broken 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, two sold-out
nights at Minneapolis, MN’s U.S. Bank Stadium and Denver, CO at Mile
High Stadium. Additional upcoming shows are already sold-out in Eugene,
OR at Autzen Stadium on 6/29 with Regina, SK’s Mosaic Stadium show on
7/10 and Boise, ID’s Albertsons Stadium show on 7/20 both selling out in
under an hour, averaging just over 75,000 tickets in each city.
Brooks also surprised fans with upcoming new music last week, revealing a
duet with Blake Shelton on the track “Dive Bar” and sharing that fans
will get to hear the song for first time live when Shelton joins him at
the newly added show in Boise, ID on 7/19. 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.
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.
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