{"id":111298,"date":"2026-06-04T08:19:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T12:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/uncategorized\/2026\/06\/garth-brooks-honored-with-riaas-artist-of-a-lifetime-award\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T07:54:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T11:54:30","slug":"garth-brooks-honored-with-riaas-artist-of-a-lifetime-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/06\/garth-brooks-honored-with-riaas-artist-of-a-lifetime-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Garth Brooks Honored With RIAA&#8217;s Artist Of A Lifetime Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Garth Brooks<\/strong>&nbsp;was&nbsp;honored&nbsp;with the Artist of a Lifetime Award&nbsp;by the Recording Industry Association of America. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has 10 albums that are certified Diamond, which means they&#8217;ve each sold at least 10 million units.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It probably also helps that he sells so many CD box sets.&nbsp; Even his last album,&nbsp;<strong><em>&#8220;Time Traveler&#8221;<\/em><\/strong>, was only sold in a CD box set, which contained other albums like&nbsp;<strong><em>&#8220;Triple Live&#8221;<\/em><\/strong>, which was the latest album to reach Diamond status.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not about numbers, it is about the music.&nbsp; This milestone goes directly to country radio.&nbsp; It introduced me to the world&#8217;s biggest, best, and most loyal audience: the country music audience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>In other Garth news, he&#8217;s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/music\/news\/garth-brooks-considers-sale-of-music-catalog-seeking-roughly-2-billion\/ar-AA24GNrC?ocid=BingNewsSerp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reportedly&nbsp;looking to sell the rights to his catalog for $2 BILLION,<\/a> yes, with a &#8220;B&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-x wp-block-embed-x\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Celebrating\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/RIAAHonors?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#RIAAHonors<\/a>\u00a02026, in partnership with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/billboard?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@billboard<\/a>\u00a0as we honor the artists, executives, and policymakers shaping American music and culture. \ud83c\udfb6 \u2728 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/b6nplgtqW7\">pic.twitter.com\/b6nplgtqW7<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) (@RIAA) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RIAA\/status\/2062305560716820912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 3, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garth Brooks&nbsp;was&nbsp;honored&nbsp;with the Artist of a Lifetime Award&nbsp;by the Recording Industry Association of America. &nbsp; He has 10 albums that are certified Diamond, which means they&#8217;ve each sold at least 10 million units.&nbsp;&nbsp; It probably also helps that he sells so many CD box sets.&nbsp; Even his last album,&nbsp;&#8220;Time Traveler&#8221;, was only sold in a","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":111340,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[464],"tags":[12316,6845,475,10440],"class_list":["post-111298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-artist-of-a-lifetime-award","tag-diamond","tag-garth-brooks","tag-recording-industry-association-of-america"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 22:07:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/cknx.ca\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/06\/garth-brooks-honored-with-riaas-artist-of-a-lifetime-award\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111339,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111298\/revisions\/111339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}