Reuters - Retired country singer Garth Brooks' previously announced one-off wildfire benefit concert at the Staples Center in Los Angeles next month has quickly become five sold-out shows.

Reuters - Garth Brooks donated a smashed guitar to the Smithsonian Institution on Tuesday, but the country-music superstar turned into a wide-eyed tourist when he saw the company he would be keeping.

AP - An international audience joined a Kansas City crowd as Garth Brooks played the final show of the concert series that ended his nine-year touring hiatus. The show was simulcast to fans in movie theaters across North America and Europe on Wednesday. The 45-year-old country singer had retired from touring to be a stay-at-home dad.

AP - An international audience joined a Kansas City crowd as Garth Brooks played the final show of the concert series that ended his nine-year touring hiatus.

Garth Brooks is an utter sellout. The black-hatted crooner's rare return to the concert stage has proven one incredibly tough ticket, with all nine scheduled shows selling out in less than two hours.