Ropin' the Wind

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Entertainment Weekly	C+[2]
Los Angeles Times	[3]
Robert Christgau	A−[4]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[5]

Ropin' the Wind is the third studio album by American country music artist Garth Brooks. It was released on September 2, 1991 and was his first studio album to debut at No. 1 the Billboard 200 chart and the Top Country Albums chart. There it enjoyed four runs at No. 1 between September 28, 1991 - April 3, 1992, spending a combined 18 weeks at the top, eventually being certified 14x Platinum by the RIAA in 1998. In the UK it reached the Top 50 pop albums list and went to No. 1 for several months on the country charts. It has gone to sell 17 million copies world wide.

The track "Shameless" is a cover of a Billy Joel song, previously recorded on his 1989 album Storm Front.

According to music review website AllMusic, Ropin' the Wind is the first country album to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.^[6]

1. ↑ Allmusic review
2. ↑ "Ropin' the Wind". EW.com. Archived from the original on 2020-11-28. Retrieved 2019-02-15.
3. ↑ HILBURN, ROBERT; classic), Albums are rated on a scale of one asterisk (poor) to five (a (8 September 1991). "The Same Old Stories From Garth Brooks" – via LA Times.
4. ↑ "Robert Christgau: CG: garth brooks". www.robertchristgau.com.
5. ↑ Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian David (2004). The Rolling Stone Album Guide. New York City, New York: Simon and Schuster. p. 105. ISBN 978-0-7432-0169-8.
6. ↑ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas (1962-02-07). "Garth Brooks". Allmusic. Retrieved 2012-03-07.