Concert re-aired with Brooks commentary on Aug 7th

More than one million fans tuned in to watch Garth Brooks relive his historic Central Park concert for the show’s 25th anniversary on Sunday (Aug 7th). By the time the broadcast wrapped, 1.1 million people had watched the TalkShopLive re-airing as Brooks chatted and shared highlights from the August 7, 1997 concert that saw an estimated 800,000-1.2 million people attend.

“The turn out for this surprises me as much as it did for Central Park,” Brooks shares during the one-time re-airing.

“Because of you and the people who didn’t give up, you made tonight BIGGER than the original night 25 years ago…OVER 1.09M Friends in Low Places!!!!” Brooks shared on Facebook following the special broadcast.

Fans had delays entering the stream due to demand. More than 400,000 had tuned before 8 pm ET when Brooks went live to relive what it was like leading up to the moments he appeared on stage 25 years prior. The stream, which also aired on the GMA website, MSN, garthbrooks.com and Facebook, continued to grow throughout the 75 minute broadcast as fans were able to join and also relive their favorite moments in the live chat.

To handle the demand, were are told by TalkShopLive exclusively, that they implemented a queue system that allowed fans in throughout the evening.

The free concert, dubbed “Garthstock,” was the largest ticketed event ever held in Central Park. Garth: Live From Central Park was broadcast on HBO and was named the most-watched special on cable television that year with 14.6 million viewers. It was also nominated for six Primetime Emmy Awards and featured guest appearances by Billy Joel and Don McLean, both of which appeared on the livestream.

The country superstar is prepping to release The Anthology, Part II: The Next Five Years on November 15th. Brooks picks up where he left off in The Anthology, Part I: The First Five Years in 2017, telling his story in his own words and offering fascinating insights to his career and personal life from 1996-2001. Completing the Anthology, Part II is a six disc set of musical highlights from albums released during that time — all of which will be heard in a new way after reading about the inspiration for the song and how the magic was created in the studio — plus two previously unreleased recordings — a studio recording of “Tearin’ It Up (And Burnin’ It Down)” and a duet version of “To Make You Feel My Love” with wife Trisha Yearwood.

Last night (Sat, Aug 6th), Brooks concluded the end of the North American trek of The Stadium Tour at Houston’s NRG Stadium. He says the show was “perfect” and that “Central Park is second to last night’s Houston show.”

Next month, Brooks wraps the three year tour with five sold out shows in Dublin, Ireland. Four hundred thousand tickets sold out within four hours, marking a new milestone for the country star who hasn’t performed in the city in 25 years. Brooks last played Dublin in May 1997, three months before the Central Park show.

Since the tour began in March 2019, Brooks has broken at least two dozen attendance records and has sold an average of 95,000 tickets in each city. His largest single show so far on this trek is Baton Rouge with a sell out of 102,000 ticket sellout in two hours which registered as a small earthquake during “Callin’ Baton Rouge.”

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