Garth Brooks held out for a long time when it came to allowing iTunes to sell his music. He announced his new venture on Sept. 4, an alternative to iTunes called GhostTunes. This is a new music streaming and download service which the country music star said will permit artists to sell their music in any way they want to sell it, LA Times reports.

Garth's main complaint with iTunes is the fact that the site is focused on selling music singles. Garth, on the other hand, wants his music sold as complete albums because he wants to protect the music publishers and the songwriters whose income depend on the sold tracks that are included in the album.

For its introductory offering, GhostTunes launched what is called The Bundle. This is a digital package that costs $29.99 and will include Garth Brooks' eight studio albums, a new studio album that is about to be released this fall and another studio album due for release next year. It will also include the "Double Live" album's 25th anniversary edition.

Aside from selling his own music at GhostTunes, Garth Brooks said that his digital store would offer more than 7 million albums and singles by several hundred artists. During a news conference in Illinois, Garth Brooks presented a two-minute video for GhostTunes. Some of the artists mentioned in the video included Ed Sheeran, Sam Smith, Brad Paisley, Sia, Miranda Lambert, Ariana Grande, Kimbra, Coldplay and Iggy Azalea.

GhostTunes is partly owned by Garth Brooks, who said that it is a small company that he hopes will remain small. He added that their concept means that artists can have a variety of options to sell either individual tracks, whole albums or concentrate only on streaming or downloads. Brooks added that with GhostTunes, it is the copyright owner that makes the decision on how the music will be sold.