![]() But all that internet snark was merely a blip on the radar compared with this year’s Ireland fiasco. In October, fans and critics balked at the heavily photoshopped cover art of Man Against Machine, criticizing Brooks’s porcelain-smooth baby face and his silly CSI: Miami sunglasses, neither of which befit an artist of his stature. That’s less than half of what Taylor Swift’s 1989 will sell in its third week on the chart.īrooks’s comeback has faced other challenges as well. Man Against Machine was expected to be one of the biggest releases of the holiday season, with first-week sales landing somewhere between 250,000 and 300,000, but according to industry publication Hits, the disc is currently headed for a far more anemic debut in the 120,000 range. (Digital versions of Brooks’s albums are now exclusively available on his own newly launched platform, GhostTunes, which he claims compensates songwriters more fairly than iTunes.) Man Against Machine’s maudlin lead single People Loving People bricked at country radio, and Brooks’s refusal to sell his music on the world’s biggest digital music retailer, iTunes, has hugely limited its reach. ![]() But such stands often yield equally big falls, even for the best-selling country artist of all time, and it doesn’t take a Nashville executive to see how thoroughly underwhelming Brooks’s return to recorded music has been, as a result of his many stubborn convictions.įor starters, Brooks, who has sold more than 120m albums worldwide, hasn’t been able to inspire much excitement for his mega-hyped comeback album. ![]() The earnest country megastar has, in fact, made some very public stands in 2014, taking on heavyweights like iTunes, Pandora and even the Irish government – all in an effort to release his music the way he wants. “This is where I make my stand.” So Garth Brooks proclaims in the opening lines of the new album, Man Against Machine, his first collection of new original material since 2001. ![]()
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