A Brief History:
He was born Troyal Garth Brooks on February 7, 1962, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He has been inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame (2011) and Country Music Hall of Fame (2012). With 157 million albums sold in the United States as of October 2019, Garth Brooks is the best-selling album artist in the U.S. since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking music sales in January 1991.
The Studio Albums:
Compilations:
The above compilations are spotlighted on this page. The snapshots of the studio albums will indicate all songs featured on any of these compilations, noted with the codes above. Appearing after song titles are the songwriters in italicized parentheses, running times in brackets, and when relevant, the date the song was released as a single and its peaks on various charts.
Click for codes to singles charts.
Garth Brooks (1989):
- Much Too Young to Feel This Damn Old (Randy Taylor, Brooks) [2:53] (3/6/89, 8 CW) H, U
- If Tomorrow Never Comes (Kent Blazy, Brooks) [3:37] (8/21/89, 1 CW) H, U
- The Dance (Tony Arata) [3:37] (4/30/90, 1 CW, 36 UK) H, U
No Fences (1990):
- Friends in Low Places (Dewayne Blackwell, Earl “Bud” Lee) [4:18] (8/6/90, 1 CW, 36 UK) H, U
- Unanswered Prayers (Pat Alger, Larry Bastian, Brooks) [3:23] (10/12/90) H, U
- Two of a Kind, Workin’ on a Full House (Bobby Boyd, Warren Haynes, Dennis Robbins) [2:31] (1/91, 1 CW) H, U
- The Thunder Rolls (Pat Alger, Brooks) [3:42] (4/30/91, 1 CW) H, U
Ropin’ the Wind (1991):
- Rodeo (Larry Bastian) [3:51] (8/12/91, 3 CW) H, U
- Shameless (Billy Joel) [4:01] (10/21/91, 1 CW, 71 UK) H, U
- What She’s Doing Now (Pat Alger, Brooks) [3:23] (12/6/91, 1 CW) H, U
- Papa Loved Mama (Kim Williams, Brooks) [2:48] (2/3/92, 3 CW) H, U
- The River (Victoria Shaw, Brooks) [4:23] (4/27/92, 1 CW) H, U
The Chase (1992):
- We Shall Be Free (Stephanie Davis, Brooks) [3:47] (8/31/92, 12 CW) H, U
- Learning to Live Again (Don Schlitz, Stephanie Davis) [4:04] (1/25/93, 1 CW) U
- That Summer (Pat Alger, Brooks, Sandy Mahl) [4:45] (4/26/93, 1 CW) H, U
In Pieces (1993):
- Ain’t Goin’ Down ‘Til the Sun Comes Up (Kent Blazy, Kim Williams, Garth Brooks) [4:32] (7/26/93, 1 CW, 13 UK) H, U
- American Honky-Tonk Bar Assocation (Bryan Kennedy, Jim Rushing) [3:31] (9/7/93, 1 CW) H, U
- Standing Outside the Fire (Jenny Yates, Brooks) [3:51] (12/13/93, 3 CW, 28 UK) H, U
- Callin’ Baton Rouge (Dennis Linde) [2:35] (8/1/94, 2 CW) H, U
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