Garth Brooks has long occupied a rare place in music: not simply as a country superstar, but as an artist whose songs, albums and concerts have reached a scale few performers in any genre have matched.

Billboard began documenting that phenomenon from the start. Brooks made his Hot Country Songs chart debut in 1989 with “Much Too Young (To Feel This Damn Old),” then amassed 10 top 10s and seven No. 1s by the end of 1991 alone. His totals have since grown to 92 chart entries, 36 top 10s and 19 No. 1s, including “The Dance,” “Friends in Low Places,” “The Thunder Rolls” and “Shameless” — songs that didn’t just define his career but became part of country music’s foundation. He has also reached the Billboard Hot 100 nine times, led by — surely surprisingly — the No. 5-peaking “Lost in You,” released under his turn-of-the-century Chris Gaines alter ego.

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Those hits powered something even larger. Brooks has earned 200 million RIAA-certified album units, and he remains the only artist with 10 diamond-certified albums. He also boasts 17 No. 1s on Top Country Albums and nine on the Billboard 200.

His 1996-98 Garth Brooks World Tour sold 4.9 million tickets and still ranks as the best-selling country tour in Billboard Boxscore history. And there was Central Park, where in 1997, he performed for nearly 1 million people (an estimated 980,000, according to the New York City Fire Department).

That level of demand has endured. Brooks’ 2023-25 Las Vegas residency grossed $137.7 million and sold 306,000 tickets across 72 shows, and he is now preparing to return to the road once again.

Brooks reflected on his career in an interview in 2020, when he was honored with Billboard’s Icon Award. “The Shawshank Redemption says it best: ‘A good thing never dies,’ ” he mused. “So the whole thing is, capture the music the first time, so hopefully this music will stand up when it gets a chance.”

Below, Billboard counts down Garth Brooks’ 50 biggest chart hits — the songs at the center of one of the biggest and most enduring careers in popular music.

Garth Brooks’ 50 Biggest Billboard Hits chart is based on performance on Billboard’s weekly Hot Country Songs chart through the July 18, 2026, ranking. Songs are ranked based on an inverse point system, with weeks at No. 1 earning the greatest value and weeks at lower ranks earning less. Due to changes in chart methodology over the years, eras are weighted to account for different chart turnover rates over various periods.