Garth Brooks is considering selling the rights to his songs and recordings, with a reported asking price of roughly $2 billion. The move would put one of country music’s biggest names on the market at a price far above his current estimated net worth.
The report lands now because Brooks is not being discussed as just another legacy act with a catalog to shop. He has a long list of hits, and the scale of the rumored deal would make him one of the most closely watched names in the music business this year. For readers tracking the business side of popular music, it also raises the possibility that a country star could command a sum usually reserved for the biggest global icons.
That is what makes the number hard to miss. Brooks is listed at an estimated $400 million, yet the figure attached to the potential sale is about five times that amount. If a buyer actually agreed to the reported terms, the transaction would instantly redraw the conversation around his wealth and place him in a different league from many of his peers.
The comparison matters because the catalog market has already produced eye-popping deals. Sony bought Queen’s publishing for $1 billion in 2024, and the company also bought half of Michael Jackson’s catalog for over $1 billion that same year. Those deals showed how aggressively buyers are chasing proven music rights, but a $2 billion price tag would still stand out even in that market.
Brooks’s reported asking price also lands in a country music field where fortunes are already closely watched. Dolly Parton has an estimated fortune of $650 million. Shania Twain is listed at $350 million to $410 million. Brooks, at $400 million, is already in rare company, but a completed sale near $2 billion would put him far beyond that tier and into a range that overlaps with the biggest names in music overall.
That wider field is crowded with artists whose wealth has been boosted by touring, publishing and ownership stakes. Beyoncé is listed at $1 billion, Bruce Springsteen at $1.17 billion, Paul McCartney at $1.3 billion, Rihanna at $1.03 billion, Taylor Swift at $2.1 billion and Jay-Z at $2.53 billion. Forbes said Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter Tour brought in more than $400 million in gross ticket sales, sold an estimated $50 million in merchandise and left her with an estimated $125 million cut from everything in 2025, when it ranked her as the third-highest-paid musician in the world.
For now, the unanswered question is whether Brooks actually closes a deal at anything close to the reported number. If he does, the sale would not just cash out a catalog built on decades of hits. It would also recast how one of country music’s defining stars is valued in a market where ownership can matter as much as airplay.
