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.

Content

The song "Tearin' It Up (And Burnin' It Down)" was originally slated for Brooks's 1997 album Sevens, and "Wild as the Wind" was intended for a duets album with Trisha Yearwood.

Track listing

Original Release

Disc one

Disc two

25th Anniversary Edition Release

Disc one

Disc two

Anthology Part III: Live Edition Release

Disc one

Disc two

Personnel

Per liner notes included with the album's release.

Musicians

Production

Album cover themes

The album was originally released November 17, 1998, with a commemorative cover. In each of the next six weeks, another commemorative cover was released, each themed with one of Brooks' live performances. Variations released since the original issue include a First Edition cover, Reunion Arena '91, Texas Stadium '93, World Tour I, World Tour II, Central Park '97, Dublin '98, USS Enterprise '01, The Last Show, Off-Stage and, in 2014, the 25th Anniversary Edition was released including a new cover, additional bonus tracks and a DVD to promote the digital remaster and release of Brook's digital music via GhostTunes.

Chart performance

Double Live debuted at number 1 on the US Billboard 200, becoming Brooks' seventh, and number 1 on the Top Country Albums, Brooks' ninth number one Country album. In November 2023, Double Live was certified 23× Platinum by the RIAA.

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Decade-end charts

Certifications

Singles

"It's Your Song" was re-recorded in the studio and released as a single, peaking at #9 in late 1998. Two of the album's other tracks charted on the Billboard charts in 1998 from unsolicited airplay.