Brooks sets nine-show Kansas City run next month

NASHVILLE (Billboard) - Garth Brooks' one scheduled performance November 14 at the new Sprint Center in Kansas City, Mo., quickly spiraled into nine shows.

On Saturday, the retired country star moved nearly 160,000 tickets in less than two hours at ticket outlets and via online and telephone sales. Brooks will now play Kansas City November 5-12 and 14, with support from his wife, Trisha Yearwood.

The last time Brooks toured, he shattered records with an outing centered around his 1998 Capitol release, "Sevens." The three-year extravaganza grossed more than $105 million (country's first $100 million run) and drew close to 5.5 million people. Brooks charged a relatively paltry $20 per ticket when he could have demanded three times that amount.

He has made sporadic live appearances since then, including a Hurricane Katrina benefit, a Grand Ole Opry appearance in 2005 and a more recent performance at a Live Earth concert in Washington, D.C. He has said he would not embark on a full-blown tour until his youngest daughter graduates from high school in 2015.

Brooks will issue a three-disc boxed set, "The Ultimate Garth Brooks," November 6 via his own Pearl Records. The set will contain a 34-track, two-CD greatest hits retrospective with four new songs, a DVD with videos -- many of them recently filmed -- for all tracks on the CDs.

Reuters/Billboard

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