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The Oddest Moments You Forgot About Garth Brooks' Career

The day of October 26, 2000 looms large in the life and career of Garth Brooks. It was on that date, according to The Boot, when Capitol Records, Brooks' longtime label, threw a lavish party at the Gaylord Entertainment Center (now Bridgestone Arena) in country music's capital city of Nashville to announce and celebrate the fact that Brooks had sold 100 million copies of his albums in the United States alone. That's not only a remarkable achievement, it's also rare — only the Beatles have sold more records in the U.S. than Brooks, according to the RIAA. And Brooks did just in an extremely short period of time: just a little over 10 years.

And then, that very same day, Brooks announced that he was walking away from music, and that he'd retire to focus on his family, according to People. "It was a good time to take a real good look at life, because my former 10 years had not been a real life event. That decade of the '90s was crazy," he said.

Twelve years later, Brooks implied to HuffPost (via The Boot) that his retirement would end when his youngest daughter, Allie, turned 18, in 2014. Sure enough, at the end of 2013, he announced on "GMA" that he'd resume touring the following year. 

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