Double Live (Garth Brooks album)
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| Released | November 17, 1998 | |||
| Recorded | 1996–1998 | |||
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| Label | Capitol Nashville | |||
| Producer | Allen Reynolds | |||
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| Entertainment Weekly | B− |
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Double Live is the first live album by American country music singer Garth Brooks. It was released on November 17, 1998, and is a two-disc compilation of live songs, recorded during Brooks's 1996–1998 world tour.
The album broke the first-week sales record at the time, previously held by Pearl Jam's Vs., when it sold 1,085,000 copies. It became the first new best-selling live album in the US since Eric Clapton's Unplugged in 1992, later becoming the best-selling live album in United States music history. It has been certified 23× Platinum by the RIAA (11.5 million shipped as it is a double album), and is the seventh most shipped album in the US. By 2012, it had sold 6,017,000 copies.
Double Live was re-released on September 5, 2014, as Double Live: 25th Anniversary Edition, exclusive to GhostTunes.
Double Live was again re-released on November 20, 2018, as part of the Garth Brooks Anthology Part III: Live book.