Garth Brooks beats his own single-city ticket sales record

Garth Brooks has broken his own North American single-city ticket sales record.
The 52-year-old country star has sold more than 188,000 tickets to his upcoming concerts in Minneapolis. Brooks will perform 11 shows between November 6 and 15 at the Target Center.
Brooks set his previous personal best last month at the United Center in Chicago. The singer opened his first tour in 16 years, The Garth Brooks World Tour, in the city, and sales are estimated to have exceeded $12 million. He sold 183,535 tickets over 13 performances, and seems poised to surpass U2's all-time tour attendance record of 7.3 million tickets.
"I think this is a calculated, well-thought-out plan about how he would become the biggest touring act of all time," an anonymous Nashville touring executive told Billboard.
Brooks postponed retirement and announced a new record deal with Sony Music in July. The singer's last studio album, Scarecrow, was released in 2001, and he intends to debut a new record around Thanksgiving.