Double Live (Garth Brooks album)
Double Live is the first live album by American country music singer Garth Brooks. It was released on November 17, 1998, and is a two-disc compilation of live songs, recorded during Brooks's 1996–98 world tour.
Double Live
November 17, 1998
1996–1998
- 47:08 (disc one)
- 53:03 (disc two)
The album broke the first-week sales record at the time, previously held by Pearl Jam's Vs., when it sold 1,085,000 copies.[4] It became the first new best-selling live album in the US since Eric Clapton's Unplugged in 1992, later becoming the best-selling live album in United States music history. It has been certified 23× Platinum by the RIAA (11.5 million shipped as it is a double album), and is the seventh most shipped album in the US.[5] By 2012, it had sold 6,017,000 copies.[6]
Double Live was re-released on September 5, 2014, as Double Live: 25th Anniversary Edition, exclusive to GhostTunes.[7]
Double Live was again re-released on November 20, 2018, as part of the Garth Brooks Anthology Part III: Live book.
Content[edit]
The song "Tearin' It Up (And Burnin' It Down)" was originally slated for Brooks's 1997 album Sevens, and "Wild as the Wind" was intended for a duets album with Trisha Yearwood.[8]
Album cover themes[edit]
The album was originally released November 17, 1998, with a commemorative cover. In each of the next six weeks, another commemorative cover was released, each themed with one of Brooks' live performances.
Variations released since the original issue include a First Edition cover, Reunion Arena '91, Texas Stadium '93, World Tour I, World Tour II, Central Park '97, Dublin '98, USS Enterprise '01, The Last Show, Off-Stage and, in 2014, the 25th Anniversary Edition was released including a new cover, additional bonus tracks and a DVD to promote the digital remaster and release of Brook's digital music via GhostTunes.[7]
Chart performance[edit]
Double Live debuted at number 1 on the US Billboard 200, becoming Brooks' seventh, and number 1 on the Top Country Albums, Brooks' ninth number one Country album. In November 2023, Double Live was certified 23× Platinum by the RIAA.