

A recent half-hour segment included Brooks’ cover of Ashley McBryde’s “Girl Going Nowhere,” which segued into Lady A’s “Just A Kiss,” Olivia Rodrigo’s “Driver’s License” and Chris LeDoux’s “Hooked on an 8 Second Ride.” The station has played a wide range of classic and contemporary country, pop and R&B. Unlike some other artist-devoted channels on SiriusXM that play only the music of their namesakes, The Garth Channel features Brooks’ music roughly 25% of the time, with the rest of the airplay dedicated to artists he liked, including acts he grew up on, his contemporaries and newer performers. “We have enjoyed our creative relationship and look forward to working on future projects together.”Ī replacement for Brooks’ outlet, which airs on channel 55, is expected to be announced soon.īrooks is among a select group of artists, including Pearl Jam, the Grateful Dead, Jimmy Buffett, Kenny Chesney and Bruce Springsteen, who have dedicated 24/7 channels on SiriusXM. “We are incredibly grateful and proud to have collaborated with Garth to present the Garth Channel on SiriusXM,” a SiriusXM spokesperson told Billboard.

Garth Brooks Teams Up With Nashville to Open Police Substation Next to His Planned Bar… The Garth Channel also simulcast his weekly Monday Facebook visit with fans, “Inside Studio G,” which will continue. He frequently appeared on the channel sharing his experiences with the artists the outlet played and the station offered fun bits of Brooks’ trivia. Much more than a driver to sell tickets, the station has served as a community hub for Brooks and his fans.

“We plan this purposefully for all our stuff to be coming to a close here to see what our next step might be.” “ sold a ton of tickets for us on the tour and a ton of tickets for us on the stadium tour and now the drive for what it was and what it stood for is coming to a close,” he tells Billboard. In 2019, he started a three-year stadium outing that, after a pandemic pause, wraps this weekend in Dublin and sold more than 6.2 million tickets for the North American leg.Īs the tour winds down, Brooks says he felt it was time to close the radio chapter as well. The 24/7 station bowed in September 2016 while Brooks was midway through a multi-year, 390-date arena tour. Six years after its launch, Garth Brooks’ SiriusXM channel, The Garth Channel, will go off the satellite and online radio outlet at midnight Oct.
