Pop music is so dominated by blacks & cute females that a white male singer has basically no chance to make it big these days. So they go “country”. Garth was just ahead of that curve a bit. These country music “men” are useless.
“According to the RIAA, he is the best-selling solo albums artist in the United States with 148 million domestic units sold, ahead of Elvis Presley, and is second only to the Beatles in total album sales overall.[4] He is also one of the world’s best-selling artists of all time, having sold more than 170 million records.[5]
As of September 23, 2016, Brooks is now the only artist in music history to have released 7 albums that achieved diamond status in the United States, ”