Mar 21, 2014 9:49 PM I agree, if he’s ever going to have any big impact, especially with the younger generation, he had to go digital. With his commercially savvy fusion of post-Merle Haggard country, honky tonk, post-folk-rock sensitive singer/songwriter sensibilities, and '70s arena rock dramatics, Brooks brought country music to a new audience in the '90s; namely, a mass audience. With his commercially savvy fusion of post-Merle Haggard country, honky tonk, post-folk-rock sensitive singer/songwriter sensibilities, and '70s arena rock dramatics, Brooks brought country music to a new audience in the '90s; namely, a mass audience. "They came in with their own set of rules, and if you're already established, you have to change to get to them. I guess I’m a dinosaur. The greatest-selling country music artist of all time, and one of the very last artists to resist releasing his music digitally, is finally succumbing to the digital music revolution. Double Live INFO BUY NOW. The CD's are brand new, no scratches, etc. When you’re one of the biggest artists of all time, that’s the power you have, Have someone rip the CDs into mp3, slap them on a flash drive.
The only thing Garth Brooks cares about is Garth Brooks (and making money, of course). He’s already proven he doesn’t “need” to do anything just because the rest of music is.
In response to slmnsam1 I wasn’t even planning on buying any of Garth’s music from iTunes and I feel irritated. With his commercially savvy fusion of post-Merle Haggard country, singer/songwriter sensibilities, and arena rock dramatics, Brooks brought country music to a new audience in the '90s -- namely, a mass audience. Even Blake Shelton was pining for Brooks’ music to be on iTunes. I’m not the source of this information. Country veteran Garth Brooks may have an exclusive deal with Amazon, but during his appearance at SXSW last week he had warm words for Spotify CEO Daniel Ek, if slightly cooler views on Apple Music. Garth Brooks says his albums are coming to iTunes Tuesday, April 1st, including your ability to purchase individual songs. I thought for sure that when I read this article, it would say something about iTunes only offering his full albums.On that note, I don’t really think that Brooks feels “the album concept should be more respected.” He’s certainly never shied away from compilations in the past, which more or less are collections of singles. I don’t know why they didn’t post the audio, but dealing with radio stations a lot, it is not uncommon something gets put off until the next day. Got Ya!” banner, people are simply going to go, “Huh?” because they’re completely unaware that the iTunes matter was even broached. Unfortunately, It looks like this is Garth Brooks trying to make it impossible to use Itunes with his music. Given the wide audience he caters to, I’m sure physical copies will sell better than many other artists, but he would still be missing it sorely if that were the only way to get ahold of new music. MUSIC. You could be right. HOMETOWN
I bought the Garth Brooks Box Set back in December and cannot get it to load into Itunes He earn his MBA in 2010, so the man’s not stupid; I suss this will be true and will align with new music released just before the new fall tour dates are announced. (16,922 points) Oooo boy I hope you’re right and hope that this is a not a joke. Ropin’ the Wind INFO BUY NOW.
Lets get it clear, Apple would love to have Garth Brooks songs in their virtual store, and why not when Garth has sold over 115 million albums in his career. I found this thread on Amazon from this past December where one person says they were able to rip the discs using iTunes: Mar 22, 2014 10:11 AM in response to Michael Allbritton iTunes offers a number of Garth Brooks' products for sale, such as songs, albums, and music videos.
Browse If it’s all a big April Fools joke, I find it hard to figure out how anyone will find it funny.
It’s one thing to crack a joke on the date that affects a few people, but another entirely to do it a day early and possibly get thousands of people excited for something that isn’t going to happen.
It kind of reminds me of AC/DC’s etiquette with iTunes. I think it remains to be seen how much younger fans will get into his music. slmnsam1
If you’re trying to pull an April Fools joke, the first thing you have to do is make everyone aware of the prank your about to pull.
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I’m nervous about this. After Garth, country music successfully carved a permanent place for itself on the pop charts.
We’ll have to see. Upload to iTunes and add your own cover art. He's not a real musician at heart. I can hardly wait to hear this now that he’s put himself above everyone else. Well today isn’t April Fools Day, and tomorrow is a Tuesday—the day of the week traditionally reserved for releasing music. Before Brooks, it was inconceivable for a country artist to go multi-platinum. I think in the next couple of years those will surpass iTunes in revenue. The Electric Barnyard show on Country 92.5 in Connecticut reported it. Shameless (feat. In response to slmnsam1 handinhand12 If we get more confirmation from sources, I will add the information here. If he comes out tomorrow and posts an April Fools “Ha! I thought digital and streaming were the same thing.
Unfortunately, It looks like this is Garth Brooks trying to make it impossible to use Itunes with his music. Garth Brooks, long a holdout from allowing his music to be sold on iTunes, lifted the lid Thursday on his alternative, GhostTunes, a new download … We’ll see tomorrow.