Garth Brooks #1 Selling Solo Artist Again!

GARTH BROOKS IS ONCE AGAIN THE NUMBER ONE SELLING
SOLO ARTIST IN US HISTORY

MAN AGAINST MACHINE HAS BEEN CERTIFIED PLATINUM

LOS ANGELES- January 12, 2015- Garth Brooks is once again the number one selling solo artist in US history. His ninth studio album, Man Against Machine, has been certified platinum by the RIAA. Man Against Machine was released on November 11th by Sony/RCA. It debuted at #1 on the Billboard country chart where it remained for six non-consecutive weeks.

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Garth Brooks with Trisha Yearwood at the Tulsa BOK Center
Friday, January 9 - January 17, 2015

With his come back in full swing, Garth Brooks has reached the Oklahoma leg of his new world tour. Brooks has been announcing each new city separately, an idea he got from Las Vegas mogul Steve Wynn.

Brooks sets up each destination city with its own on-sale date and its own press conference. Brooks has stated that once he plays a market, he won't play another city within 200 miles for a year. For Oklahoma City fans, that means there could be tour dates but not for 12 months.

Brooks' has stated that his comeback world tour could continue another two years. In that time, he plans to record another album, which could come out as early as the fall of 2015.

The BOK Center in Tulsa will be welcoming Brooks on Friday, January 9 for his first of many Tulsa concerts. There will be a news conference on Friday afternoon and Enid Buzz has been invited to attend.

We will be heading over to Tulsa on Friday with the video crew from iMuze Productions and Jack Quirk from KJ Productions. There will be a flurry of one on one interviews with Brooks after the news conference and Enid Buzz is also on the list to ask him a few questions.

I will return to Tulsa the next day to attend his first of two concerts Saturday night. I will be doing a concert review which will be posted early the next week for those headed over the next weekend.

I attended OSU the same years that Brooks was there and hung out at many of the bars he played while getting his career started. We're the same age and both arranged our career paths so that we could be around to raise our daughters.

I'm very excited to have Brooks appear on Enid Buzz and will attempt to ask him some quick questions about his Stillwater days and the possibility of ever appearing in Enid.

There is a slight chance that not all media outlets will get the one on one interviews due to time constraints but we will do our best to bring a Garth Brooks interview to Enid, Oklahoma.

Be watching our Facebook, Twitter and website feeds throughout the afternoon. We will 100% be uploading behind the scenes photos from the news conference. I can't guarantee that I'll have a phone signal to get it uploaded right away but will make every attempt.

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(Tulsa, Okla.) November 14, 2014 – Garth Brooks has broken his Tulsa record! Garth sold 79,855 tickets over 5 shows during July 17th-21st back in 1997 at Driller Park. Today he has sold over 105,000 tickets for BOK Center and is still selling!

SHOW SCHEDULE:
Friday, January 9, 2015 - 7:00 pm
Saturday, January 10, 2015 - 7:00 pm and 10:30 pm
Sunday, January 11, 2015 - 7:00 pm
Thursday, January 15, 2015 - 7:00 pm
Friday, January 16, 2015 - 7:00 pm
Saturday, January 17, 2015 - 7:00 pm

Tickets for all shows are still on sale and can be purchased at www.bokcenter.com, ticketmaster.com/garthbrooks or 1-800-745-3000 or Ticketmaster Express. Tickets will cost $57.13 plus a $4.87 tax, a $2.00 facility fee and a $6.00 service charge for a total of $70.00.

On Tuesday, Garth released MAN AGAINST MACHINE, his first new studio album in 13 years. He recently released the second single off the album, Mom.

Garth has also joined social media and you can follow him at:
https://twitter.com/garthbrooks
https://www.facebook.com/GarthBrooks
http://instagram.com/garthbrooks
https://vine.co/GarthBrooks

About Garth Brooks
Certified by the RIAA in 2000 as the #1-selling solo artist in U.S. history, Garth Brooks is now certified at 134 million albums and has received every accolade the recording industry can bestow on an artist.

In 2001, Garth retired and moved back to Oklahoma to raise his children. In 2008 the President-elect, himself, requested that Garth headline President Obama's Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial. A crowd of over 300,000 did the "wave" to Garth's performance of "Shout" while the President sang along. That same year the Governor of California asked Garth to help the State. Garth performed 5 concerts in 2 days with the proceeds from 83,000 tickets sold donated to efforts to prevent fire catastrophes. Portions of the live concerts were shown as a TV special, "Garth Brooks: Live in L.A." allowing viewers to donate as well.

In December 2010, Garth finished an astonishing 9 sold out concerts in 6 days to raise money for the flood relief efforts in Tennessee. ABC World News Tonight declared Garth The Person of the Week and the Mayor of Nashville announced that this was a record December for downtown Nashville merchants due to the over 145,000 who attended the concerts.

In January, 2012 he was named the best-selling artist of the last two decades by Billboard, Nielson and SoundScan, with a whopping 68.5 million sales. Brooks also sold out his recent appearance at the 100th anniversary of the Calgary Stampede. The sell out 15,000+ seats happened in less then a minute. Garth was recently inducted into the International Songwriters Hall of Fame in New York as well as the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. In October he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Performing for his induction were his heroes George Strait, James Taylor and Bob Seger.

On November 29th, 2013, Garth took the night with almost 9 million viewers watching his CBS special "Live From Las Vegas." That very day Garth released his new boxed set, Blame It All On My Roots, which debuted for the 13th time in Garth's career at #1 on the country charts. The boxed set also rose to the top of the Billboard 200 Chart making it the 9th time Garth has been able to achieve that feat.

Garth's performance of "Friends in Low Places," was the last thing heard on The Tonight Show as Jay Leno ended his 22 year reign as The Tonight Show host.

On Wednesday, September 3rd, 2014, Garth released a new single, "People Loving People." It was his first new single since 2008.

On Tuesday, November 11th, 2014, Garth released Man Against Machine, his first new studio album since 2001.

For more information please visit www.garthbrooks.com

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About BOK Center
BOK Center is Tulsa’s state-of-the-art sports and entertainment venue that opened in fall 2008. The 19,199-seat arena is home to the WNBA Tulsa Shock and the CHL Tulsa Oilers. BOK Center was designed to host major concerts, family shows, ice shows, and other world class entertainment. Owned by the City Of Tulsa, BOK Center is part of Vision 2025, a project to grow economic and community infrastructure for future generations. In 2011, the BOK Center won the prestigious International Association of Venue Managers (IAVM) Venue Excellence Award.

About SMG
Founded in 1977, SMG provides management services to more than 230 public assembly facilities including convention and exhibition centers, arenas, stadiums, theaters, performing arts centers, equestrian facilities, science centers and a variety of other venues. With facilities across the globe, SMG manages more than 15 million square feet of exhibition space and more than 1.5 million sports and entertainment seats. As the recognized global industry leader, SMG provides venue management, sales, marketing, event booking and programming, construction and design consulting, and pre opening services for such landmark facilities as McCormick Place & Solider Field in Chicago, Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco, Houston’s NRG Park and the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans. SMG also offers food and beverage operations through its concessions and catering company SAVOR, currently serving more than 130 accounts worldwide.