American country music singer-songwriter Garth Brooks has released seventeen studio albums, two live albums, and fifty-one singles. He has sold estimated over 170 million records worldwide,[1] making him one of the best-selling music artists in history. According to RIAA, Brooks is the top-selling solo artist of all time with 157 million certified albums in the US.[2] American Music Awards honored him the "Artist of the 90s Decade" and iHeartRadio Music Awards also honored him the "Artist of the Decade".[3]
Brooks has scored 9 No. 1 albums on Billboard 200 and achieved 19 No. 1 hits on Hot Country Songs.[4] Nine of his albums have achieved Diamond status in the United States, the most for any artist ever.[5] 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.[4]
Most of his compact discs were remastered/reissued in 2000, and again in 2007 and 2014 via GhostTunes, Brooks' online music store, on March 3, 2017, GhostTunes was absorbed into Amazon Music.