How Garth Brooks took on the internet – and lost | Music | The Guardian: "The poor sales of his comeback album Man Against Machine show that taking a stand against the modern music business only works if you’re Taylor Swift... 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... 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. That’s less than half of what Taylor Swift’s 1989 will sell in its third week on the chart... Not everything is gloomy in Brooks’s world, though. He is selling out stadiums wherever he goes on his comeback tour, and he could probably do so for the next 20 years without ever putting out another album. But the question now is whether Brooks can hold his own against a new generation of savvy country stars like Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert in the never-ending battle for cultural relevance..." (read more at the link above)
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