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What streams? His catalogue is not on Spotify or Apple Music, the only streams he has on either platform are tracks that he's featured by other artists.
The problem here is, Brooks is at #2, #6 & #7 in the 1992 Soundscan Year End Chart, not Billboards Year End chart (where he only had 2 entries (#1 & #6), which is where Barbaras positions are from. Saying that, 2 other acts have finished with 3 albums in the Billboard Top 10 Year Ends.
1966 - Herb Alpert - #1, #3, #5 .
1967 - Herb Alpert - #7, #8, #9
1975 - John Denver - #2, #4, #8
Although not three albums in the Top 10, The Monkees in 1967 are the only act ever to have the #1 & #2 Billboard albums of the year.
Martin, his music is available to stream on Amazon. Do you have access to those numbers?
Unfortunately Amazon music does not provide streaming statistics, it just seems to have popularity bars, that nothing can be discerned from.
hello editor, Garth Brooks is not a global artist that I would consider a local singer for success in America alone, in the case of artists like Coldplay or Robbie Williams who certainly sold less than him in America but 100 times more worldwide , who is considered better? who makes a huge success in America and a moderate worldwide or who makes a huge success worldwide and a medium-low in America?
Coldplay are obviously the most global, yet they have never really dominated any one territory, certainly not in the way Brooks did in the US or Williams did in the UK but ultimately this site is about sales, so from that perspective and in my opinion, it is Brooks.
On top of this, when you also consider that Brooks pretty much refused to release singles, allow his music to be downloaded or streamed, withdrew his music and signed exclusive deals and ultimately retired in 2001, it just makes his achievements and sales all the more impressive in my opinion.
Garth Brooks is big in Ireland too. 5 sold out show In Dublin last summer. 5 x 80000 in Croke Park total of 400000 people met.
but be objective, it is easy for an American singer to be successful in America, just as it is easy for an Italian artist to be successful in Italy or a Brazilian singer in Brazil, but when it comes to breaking apart from one's own nation as artists of the caliber of Coldplay and Robbie Williams who really rocked the world, it's absolutely wrong to say that Garth Brooks was better selling only in the USA, I too could do what Garth Brooks did, so I totally disagree with you and I think that most people think like me too
But Brooks wasn't just "successful" in America, he is one of the highest selling artists in America ever. Artists like Madonna and Michael Jackson did not come close to matching his sales there and they were obviously much bigger elsewhere.
please don't compare world music legends like madonna and jackson vs brooks i laugh just the comparison but also the comparison robbie williams coldplay vs garth brooks is the same
You need to be more objective. Nobody is saying Garth was a bigger global star than Madonna or MJ. What everyone here is saying is that Garth sold an uncharacteristically large amount of material in the United States, only The Beatles sold more. The fact that he sold so much in the US and little elsewhere is impressive regardless of how you look at it.
Both artists are not on some of those platforms like Spotify I guess. Probably that's why both sales figures are not updated if they even exist.
Yes Brooks is only on Amazon I think, and Neil Young has pulled his music from Spotify a couple years ago.
