Back in 1990, Garth Brooks released a massive No. 1 album called the son of its wildly successful predecessor, and it made Billboard history.
Brooks’ Ropin’ the Wind debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s country chart and the Billboard 200 simultaneously. The only artist to achieve the same milestone before him was Kenny Rogers, whose Greatest Hits pulled it off a decade earlier, in 1980.
According to American Songwriter, the LP reached the top spot "three more times between Sept. 28, 1991, and April 3, 1992. It spent a total of 18 weeks at the top and was ultimately certified 14× Platinum by the RIAA in 1998."
Brooks' official website called Ropin' the Wind “the son of No Fences, Ropin' the Wind would turn out to make the most noise of any Garth album." The LP was considered an offspring release because Brooks wrote many of its songs while on tour supporting his sophomore release.
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Consequence.net shared an excerpt from the book accompanying Garth Brooks: The Anthology Part I, in which the singer discussed his vision for the album. He explained that his goal was to capture the energy of a live concert while staying true to the style of his earlier work.
“It can’t be all ballads, can’t be all story songs, can’t be all up-tempo swing kind of stuff, just like it can’t be all humor. But you damn sure need all that stuff in its moment,” he said of the LP's songs.
To Billboard, Brooks said he missed the sophomore jinx of his second album, No Fences, because that album and his third were cut almost simultaneously. "Where the sophomore jinx for me came in was [1991 ’s] Ropin’ the Wind. I was scared to death that the album wasn’t going to do jack compared to Fences."
Reflecting on the album topping both the Billboard 200 and country charts, Brooks said, “I’m not sure I even understood the achievement, because SoundScan was so new. Back then, the Billboard 200 was considered the pop chart, so I didn’t know if that was a good thing for me or not.”
He concluded, "But then when I realized this whole SoundScan thing was finally showing what the audience was out there, which was predominantly country music fans, that made me very proud and I felt very lucky to be the first guy there."
Ropin' the Wind, released in 1991 by Garth Brooks, features the hits "Shameless," "The River," "Papa Loved Mama," "Rodeo," and "What She's Doing Now." He won a Grammy Award in the category of Best Country Vocal Performance, Male for the album at the 34th annual show.
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