After the TV ratings for his Notre Dame concert special on CBS went through the roof Sunday, Garth Brooks is ready to raise the roof at Minneapolis's new football stadium next spring.
Country music's showman-maximus will perform May 4 at U.S. Bank Stadium, his first concert in Minnesota since a record-setting 11-show run at Target Center in 2014.
Tickets for the Saturday night gig go on sale Dec. 14 through Ticketmaster. In true friends-in-low-places fashion, they are all priced the same and fall under $100.
The seats are listed at $74.77, which will come to $94.95 after taxes and fees, according to the stadium. In addition to Ticketmaster's website, tickets will be available by calling 1-866-448-7849 or 1-800-745-3000.
Billed as "the most potent, explosive force in American music history" in a press announcement — aw shucks, the ol' Okie would say — Brooks will perform on an in-the-round stage, presumably with the same hi-fi production he used in the Notre Dame concert. The TV special drew just shy of 9 million U.S. viewers, the kind of rating that prime-time NFL games receive.
Brooks has already announced four other 2019 concerts in stadiums in St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Gainesville, Fla., and Glendale, Ariz. In all cases, he did not add a second night despite swift sales. Not yet, anyway.
While the Vikings' palace had Brooks wannabe Luke Bryan for its first concert in 2016, the Atlanta Falcons' new home, Mercedes-Benz Stadium, recruited Brooks himself for its inaugural act in 2017. That show, however, was marred by acoustic problems, which have also been a lingering issue at U.S. Bank Stadium.
At 56, Brooks remains one of the top-selling artists of all time in both the recording and touring industries, second only to the Beatles in U.S. album sales (totaling 148 million for Brooks).
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