Second comeback

On August 18, 2007 at a press conference in Nashville, Brooks announced plans for a new boxed set called The Ultimate Hits. The new set features two discs containing 30 hits, a DVD featuring music videos and an updated video for "We Shall Be Free," and three new songs. The album's first single, "More Than a Memory", was released to radio on August 27, 2007. Other new songs include a duet with Huey Lewis on Lewis' 1982 hit "Workin' For a Livin'", "Midnight Sun," a song Garth co-wrote, and a bonus track, "Leave a Light On." The set was released on Brooks' own label, Pearl Records, and promoted by Big Machine Records, the label to which Brooks' wife, Trisha Yearwood, had signed only a few months before.

"More Than a Memory" debuted at number one on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart dated for the week ending September 15, 2007, becoming the highest-debuting single in the chart's history. The previous record had been set only one week earlier, when Kenny Chesney's "Don't Blink" debuted at #16.

On September 27, 2007, it was announced that Garth Brooks would perform at the new Sprint Center in Kansas City, Missouri with his wife Trisha Yearwood on November 14, 2007. The show was sold out in 4 minutes. Then Brooks added another 8 shows to be performed at the Sprint Center from November 5-12, which all sold out on the day of their release, October 6, 2007. Brooks also announced that the show on November 14 would be broadcast live in movie theaters all around the world and that an encore would be shown the next day November 15.

It was announced on Nov 15, that GAC will air an edited version of the November 14 concert on November 23 at 8:00pm Est. The 90 minute special is called "Garth Brooks:One Man, One City, One Night"

On November 5, The RIAA held a press conference to announce that Garth Brooks had reclaimed the top honor of being the Best Selling Solo Recording Artist in Music with sales in excess of 123 millon records sold.

November 14, 2007 At the end of his "Final Concert" Garth proclaimed "I promise if you wait for me, I will be back." He will come out of retirement once his kids graduate high school.