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Brooks has yet to prove he has the imagination of John Lennon, much less the death-defying charisma of Elvis, but he has broken all of Nashville's sales records. Until his 1991 Ropin' the Wind, no country album had ever entered Billboard's pop chart at No. 1. Since his recording debut a short three years ago, Brooks has moved more albums with more velocity than anyone else in the history of Nashville: when the figures for Ropin' are added to those for Garth Brooks and No Fences, his first and second releases, he has sold more than...
...units sold, compared with 18% for the 15-to-19 age group, according to the Recording Industry Association of America. Until last year, the effect of that purchasing power was disguised by the sketchy oral reports drawn from record stores canvassed for the Billboard pop charts. But last year the charts began relying on SoundScan, a firm that compiles computerized bar-code information from cash registers. On the May 25 pop chart, the first based on the SoundScan data, 15 more country albums showed up in the Top 200. In 1984 the country category showed only eight gold...
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