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    • Oct 30, 1996
    Garth Brooks' "The Hits" is certified nine-times platinum by the RIAA
    Dec 6, 1996
    It's an all-country finalists list for Favorite Male Musical Performer as Garth Brooks, George Strait and Vince Gill get nominations for the People's Choice Awards. Reba McEntire is up for the female honor against Whitney Houston and Alanis Morissette
    Dec 11, 1996
    Garth Brooks, George Strait and Shania Twain each collect a pair of nominations for the American Music Awards
    Jan 12, 1997
    Garth Brooks and Reba McEntire win the annual People's Choice Awards for Favorite Male and Female Musical Performer
    Jan 16, 1997
    Garth Brooks' album "In Pieces" is certified by the RIAA for 6 million shipments
    Jan 27, 1997
    LeAnn Rimes wins her first major trophy, for Favorite New Country Artist, at the American Music Awards at Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium. Other country winners: Garth Brooks, Shania Twain, Brooks & Dunn and George Strait
    Feb 16, 1997
    Garth Brooks greets Melinda and Ricky Huffman at the Charleston Coliseum in West Virginia with a raft of gifts, as his tour pulls in its 2 millionth customer. The couple gets a Chevy Tahoe and a Caribbean vacation
    May 5, 1997
    Simon & Schuster publishes "Rough Mix," by controversial record producer and record executive Jimmy Bowen. The book chronicles his work with the likes of Frank Sinatra, Merle Haggard, Hank Williams Jr. and--quite unflatteringly--Garth Brooks
    May 14, 1997
    "Three Chords And The Truth," a book about country stars by Lawrence Leamer, hits stores. Despised by many on Music Row, it profiles--sometimes unflatteringly--such acts as Garth Brooks, Vince Gill, Wynonna, Mary Chapin Carpenter and BR5-49
    May 16, 1997
    Garth Brooks begins a three-night stand at Croke Park in Dublin, Ireland, playing for close to 130,000 people. The shows are filmed for a 1998 NBC-TV special
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