Nine shows at Rogers Place for superstar Garth Brooks

Fans are snapping up Garth Brooks tickets as fast as they become available, and the country music superstar is leaving no Unanswered Prayers.

Brooks will now play a total of nine shows at Rogers Place in February, his publicists said Thursday.

But "no more shows will be added," they cautioned in a news release.

Tickets went on sale Thursday for the latest four shows added since the first two concerts went on sale Dec. 9.

Brooks has now sold more than 115,000 tickets for his Edmonton performances, and tickets for the latest dates announced "are still selling," his publicists said.

All tickets are $79.98, including tax and service charge.

Get ready for CRAZY fun time! #GARTHinEDMONTON is going to be AWESOME - Team Garth https://t.co/B2I01LJ886

— @garthbrooks

The shows are:

• Friday, Feb. 17 at 7:30 p.m.
• Saturday, Feb. 18 at 3 p.m.
• Saturday, Feb. 18 at 7 p.m.
• Sunday, Feb. 19 at 3 p.m.
• Sunday, Feb. 19 at 7 p.m.
• Thursday, Feb. 23 at 7 p.m.
• Friday, Feb. 24 at 7 p.m.
• Saturday, Feb. 25 at 3 p.m.
• Saturday, Feb. 25 at 7 p.m.

Brooks is the top-selling solo artist in U.S. history, with sales of more than 138 million albums.

He is currently on a three-year world tour with his wife, country singer Trisha Yearwood.

Brooks, the 2016 Country Music Association's Entertainer of the Year, is no stranger to strings of sold-out shows in each city he visits.

During a 1996-'98 tour, he played 350 shows in 100 cities, selling more than 5.3 million tickets. In 1998 alone, he sold more than 1.8 million tickets, more than any other touring act that year.

Brooks briefly retired from the music business in 2001 to spend time with his three daughters.

But he released a top-selling boxed set in 2005, the same year he married Yearwood.

In 2008, he performed five concerts in two days in California. In 2010, he played nine sold-out shows in six days to raise money for flood relief in Tennessee.

His shows are lauded as expansive spectacles.

At a recent performance in Greenville, S.C., Brooks played 23 tunes before a nine-song first encore. For the second encore, he performed Don McLean's classic American Pie.

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Nine shows at Rogers Place for superstar Garth Brooks