Biggest Concert Ever: Which One Was It?
Assunta Bartell
2025-04-28 08:00:21
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Rod Stewart holds that record. Stewart, remarkably, was booked to headline the free annual concert held at Copacabana Beach in 1994, and a staggering 4.2 million people turned up to watch the former Faces frontman bring in the New Year in style. The closest contender to Stewart’s crown is Jean-Michel Jarre, who performed to 3.5 million people in Russia in 1997 to celebrate Moscow’s 850th birthday, but nobody is yet to break Rod’s record.
Faye Leuschke
2025-04-14 10:14:36
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The famed beach in Rio De Janeiro was the scene of one of the biggest rock shows EVER, when the legendary band performed to 1.5 million fans on 18 February 2006. The Rolling Stones played Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 18 February 2006. Metallica stole the show at Monsters Of Rock was originally a festival held between 1980 and 1996 at Castle Donington, where an incredible 1.6 million rock fans are reported to have turned up. Jean Michel Jarre marked the 850th anniversary of the city of Moscow by performing to over 3.5 million people.
Breanne Shields
2025-04-14 09:57:00
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The record attendance of 375,000 fans over three nights in August 2003 at the Hertfordshire estate has never been broken in the UK. Tickets for Willams' shows on 2, 3 and 4 August 2003 sold out 10 months in advance and organisers found themselves having to make late changes with stands specifically for pregnant fans. At the time he told the crowds: "I've never seen anything like this in my life. Ever. And after these three nights, I don't think Britain will see anything like it for a long time to come either." Only Harry Styles has come close to the Williams Knebworth concerts.
Francisco Little
2025-04-14 09:55:31
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Coldplay’s ongoing Music of the Spheres World Tour has grossed $945 million (£726m) and sold 8.8m tickets, making it the biggest rock tour of all time, according to Billboard. The British band’s huge tour that kicked off in March 2022, with an array of significant sustainability measures in place, is both the highest grossing and best-selling tour by a rock act in the four decades that Billboard has been monitoring concert data. According to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore, Coldplay has edged ahead of Elton John’s Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour, which grossed $939m (£721m) during its run from 2018-23.
Nathan Bruen
2025-04-14 09:52:13
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Rod Stewart played to a reported 3.5 million people on Rio De Janeiro’s Copacabana Beach. It might seem unbelievable, but on New Year’s Eve 1994, in what also happens to be the highest-attended free show of all time, one man beats them all to the title of the biggest gig in history. As some outlets claim the figure was more like 4.2 million, it gives him the edge over Jarre.
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