Shop Amazon and support
Country Standard Time

Elsewhere in the news

Brooks box set charts in third

Wednesday, December 4, 2013 – Garth Brooks is back. His "Blame It All On My Roots" box set debuts in third on the overall Billboard Top 200 chart with 160,000 units sold. That wasn't good enough to top One Direction, which sold a whopping 546,000 units of "Midnight Memories."

Brooks' six-CD/two-DVD set was sale-priced for $24.96 and sold only at Wal-Mart. Released on Thanksgiving Day, the disc was only out for four days when the charts was released. The disc features four discs of covers and two discs of greatest hits ("The Ultimate Hits" disc from 2007 is reprised here).

Brooks last charted on the Billboard 200 with "The Ultimate Hits" in November 2007. The new box was supported by a two-hour, live concert on CBS last Friday.

The Robertsons' "Duck the Halls: A Robertson Family Christmas" was fourth with 137,000 units sold, up 127 percent.

Luke Bryan's "Crash My Party" climbed from 15 to 8 with 109,000 units sold, up 318 percent.

More news for Garth Brooks

CD reviews for Garth Brooks

Gunslinger CD review - Gunslinger
If naming your release "Gunslinger," you'd better let it rip and go for a harder country sound, especially if donning a black cowboy hat on the cover. The reality does not exactly match that sentiment for Garth Brooks, but at times he comes mighty close. The high points for Brooks are the three most traditional country songs - a couple of honky tonkers ("Honky-Tonk Somewhere" and "Cowboys and Friends") and a ballad ("Whiskey to Wine"). »»»
Man Against Machine CD review - Man Against Machine
After releasing his debut album in 1989, Garth Brooks released music almost every year until he announced his retirement in 2000. Since then, he has released repackaged hit collections, new music on "Scarecrow" and "The Lost Sessions" and last year's cover song collection "Blame it All on My Roots." Over the years, there have been live recordings, concert and music video collections. The country songwriter became a pop culture icon, transcending genre to become »»»
Blame It All On My Roots - Five Decades of Influences CD review - Blame It All On My Roots - Five Decades of Influences
Garth Brooks is back with his first release of "new" material since 2001's "Scarecrow." (Truth in advertising, his "The Ultimate Hits," which actually is part of the new box set, included four new songs back in 2007). And it's quite an undertaking - four CDs of covers - Country Classics, Classic Rock, Blue-Eyed Soul and Melting Pot, an amalgam of country, rock, soul and folk; the two-CD set, "The Ultimate Set" and a DVD of his live performance in Vegas. »»»