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- Garth Brooks scored his first US country No. 1 single with “Friends in Low Places”.
- Garth Brooks released the album Ropin' the Wind.
- A U.S. doctor filed a $35 million lawsuit against Southwest Bell. He claimed that his wife died because he was unable to get through to the 911 emergency line, as all telephone lines were overloaded by demand for tickets to a Garth Brooks concert.
- Garth Brooks reached number one on the U.S. album chart, Billboard 200, with his fourth studio album The Chase, knocking Billy Ray Cyrus's Some Gave All from the top after it had spent 17 weeks at number one. The Chase remained at the top for six consecutive weeks.
- Garth Brooks performed a free concert in New York City's Central Park. Attendance estimates in the supplied records range from more than 100,000 to one million people. Another 14.6 million viewers watched the concert live on HBO.
- Garth Brooks fans bought more than 139,000 tickets in less than four hours, selling out eight concerts at Rosemont Horizon in Chicago.
- Garth Brooks released an album as “Chris Gaines,” a fictional character created for a planned film. The concept alienated some fans, and the album was Brooks's first since 1995 not to debut at No. 1; it ranked behind Creed's Human Clay.