GARTH BROOKS’ “DIVE BAR” MUSIC VIDEO WITH BLAKE SHELTON AMASSES OVER 26 MILLION VIEWS ON FACEBOOK IN 72 HOURS
The Release Marks Brooks’ First Music Video In 12 Years
Nashville, TN – November 4, 2019 – Current CMA “Entertainer of the Year” nominee and 12-time “Entertainer of the Year” Garth Brooks premiered his first music video in 12 years on Friday and the video has already accumulated over 26 million views on Facebook in 72 hours. The video for his and Blake Shelton’s climbing single, “Dive Bar,” has the band taking a literal dive underwater for the “anthemic” (Billboard) track. The music video for “Dive Bar” is available to watch NOW on Facebook.
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About Garth Brooks:
In March, Garth Brooks launched the monumental The Stadium Tour. In the first nine stadiums announced, Brooks set massive ticket sale records, with many shows selling out in minutes and breaking attendance records. Brooks will continue the colossal tour at Knoxville, TN’s Neyland Stadium on Saturday, 11/16, marking the first concert at the stadium in sixteen years and one of only three concerts ever held at the stadium.
Brooks has just made his catalog available on vinyl for the first time with his meticulously-curated vinyl package, LEGACY, releasing on Friday. During the first pre-sale, Brooks smashed records with 20,000 packages sold in under 18 hours, totaling 420,000 vinyl records. Forbes noted, “To put this in context, The Beatles were the number-one vinyl artist in 2018 with 321,000 sales over 12 months.” Earlier this year, Brooks received iHeartRadio’s inaugural Artist of the Decade Award at the iHeartRadio Awards in Los Angeles.
12-time “Entertainer Of The Year” Garth Brooks has been awarded the honor six times by CMA Awards as well as six times by the ACM Awards, a first for any artist. He is also the first artist in history to receive seven Diamond awards for the now seven albums certified by the RIAA at over 10 million album sales each and remains the #1-selling solo artist in U.S. history certified by the RIAA with over 148 million album sales. He has received every accolade the recording industry can bestow on an artist including being inducted into the International Songwriters Hall of Fame in New York, the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, Country Music Hall of Fame and most recently, the Musicians Hall of Fame.
Brooks also hosts his highly popular Inside Studio G, a weekly Facebook Live series. It airs every Monday on Brooks’ Facebook page at 7:00 PM EST. You can follow him at: https://www.facebook.com/GarthBrooks, https://twitter.com/garthbrooks, http://instagram.com/garthbrooks. For more information please visit www.garthbrooks.com.
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