Video footage from the event will be available via satellite beginning at 4:00pm to 4:30pm ET today. Garth Brooks is a pivotal figure in the history of country music. Brooks’ commercially savvy fusion of post-Merle Haggard country with honky tonk and 1970s arena rock dramatics brought country music a new audience - a mass audience. Before him, it was inconceivable for a country artist to go multi- platinum.

However, Brooks walked away from the most successful career in the history of country music when he announced his retirement in 2000. With 26 #1 hit singles, 15 charted albums and over 116 million albums sold in the United States alone, Brooks was breaking records for both sales and concert attendance throughout the 1990s.

Brooks has received two Grammy’s, 17 American Music Awards, 11 Country Music Association awards, 18 Academy of Country Music awards, five World Music Awards, 12 People’s Choice Awards, and 36 Billboard Music Awards. His next compilation, Garth Brooks: The Ultimate Hits goes on sale November 6th.