![]() ![]() And, he remains the only country artist to register a SoundScan week of one million or more, accomplished when ‘Double Live’ arrived in 1998. 1 on The Billboard 200 than any other artist in the ’90s. With combined sales of all his albums at 66 million units to date, he is the best-selling act since Nielsen SoundScan signed on in 1991, and he spent more weeks at No. “Working in Brooks’ favor is him immense popularity, proven this year when he became the first artist in the history of Hot Country Songs to garner enough radio airplay in the first week of a new single’s release to debut at No. Kanye West came close recently when ‘Graduation’ opened with an impressive 957,000. His was the first to do so since Norah Jones’ ‘Feels Like Home’ and Usher’s ‘Confessions’ were released in the first quarter of 2004. The last album to sell one million or more in a single week was 50 Cent’s ‘The Massacre’ in March 2005. “Will Garth Brooks new ‘Hits’ collection surpass one million units in its first week? If anyone can do it, he might just be the guy, but remember that the album market is a lot softer now than it was when Brooks was active. Here’s what Geoff wrote in response to your e-mail: I passed your questions about the new Garth Brooks album to our director of charts and senior analyst, Geoff Mayfield. Will the sale of these CDs count toward first week sales and will Garth be able to beat the million-unit sales mark between the three versions of the CD coming out? He is doing a regular CD, a limited edition CD and now the pink CD. He announced that there will be a special pink edition for the Susan G. Garth Brooks is releasing his “The Ultimate Hits” CD on Nov.
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