Some credit him with helping to make country music mainstream entertainment in the U.S. His third album 'Ropin' in the Wing' debuted at #1 on the Billboard Top 200 in 1991, the first country album to do so. He successfully crossed over between pop and country long before Taylor Swift made it cool. His influence on a new generation of country music stars-and country music in general-is difficult to understate. He earned $45.5 million in 2018 alone, thanks largely to the 6 million tickets he sold on a three-year tour with his wife, fellow country superstar Trisha Yearwood. He's sold more than 100 million albums, amassed an estimated net worth of more than $300 million, and carved out a place for himself as one of the most successful, celebrated, and influential acts in the history of country music. Today, nearly three decades after the release of that album, he stands as the #1 selling solo artist in U.S. It saw strong sales, but even that was a far cry from the astronomical success he would see in the years later.
He released his self-titled first album two years later.
In 1987, Garth Brooks moved to Nashville for the second time in an attempt to make it big on the country music scene.
