List of highest-attended concerts

This page lists the highest-attended concerts of all time. The oldest 100,000-crowd concert reported to Billboard Boxscore is Grateful Dead's gig at the Raceway Park, Englishtown, New Jersey on September 3, 1977. The concert was attended by 107,019 people, which remains the largest ticketed concert in the United States to date. Frank Sinatra, Tina Turner, and Paul McCartney broke the record respectively in Maracanã Stadium. With an audience of over 184,000 people on April 21, 1990. McCartney's record was broken by A-ha in 1991 during the Rock in Rio, when they drew about 198,000 people with tickets. Their record was broken by a Japanese rock band, Glay, which held a concert with an audience of 200,000 people on July 31, 1999, in Chiba, Japan (Makuhari Parking Lot). GLAY held the record for 6 years. Italian singer Vasco Rossi surpassed McCartney's record with his solo concert on July 1, 2017. The concert was a celebration of his 40 years of career.

The record for biggest concert attendance is held by Vasco Rossi (left) for a ticketed concert and Rod Stewart (right) for a free concert.

Although the attendance numbers of free concerts are known to be exaggerations,[1] several concerts have been reported to have a million audience or more. Both Jean-Michel Jarre's concert in Moscow 1997 and Rod Stewart's concert in Copacabana 1994 have been reported to attract audiences of more than 3.5 million people. Jean Michel Jarre has attracted a live audience of more than a million spectators on five occasions, three times in Paris, 1979, 1990 and 1995, once in Houston, 1986, and once in Moscow, 1997. He is the only artist ever to have done so.

Highest-attended concerts

Key

•	Indicates the concert was the highest-attended of all time up to that point

Single-artist concerts

The following are the highest-attended single artist's ticketed concerts (excluding music festivals) with attendance of 100,000 people or more.

Date	Artist	Venue	City	Title	Attendance	Ref.
1 July 2017	Vasco Rossi  •	Parco Enzo Ferrari	Modena	Modena Park 2017	225,173	[2]
28 June 2005	Bijelo Dugme  •	Belgrade Hippodrome	Belgrade	2005 Tour: Sarajevo, Zagreb, Belgrade	220,000	[3]
31 July 1999	Glay  •	Makuhari Messe	Chiba	Glay Expo'99 Survival	200,000	[4]
20 April 1990	Paul McCartney  •	Maracanã Stadium	Rio de Janeiro	The Paul McCartney World Tour	184,000	[5]
16 January 1988	Tina Turner  •	Maracanã Stadium	Rio de Janeiro	Break Every Rule World Tour	180,000	[6][7]
26 January 1980	Frank Sinatra  •	Maracanã Stadium	Rio de Janeiro	Frank Sinatra Live	175,000	[6][8]
10 September 2005	Luciano Ligabue	Aeroporto di Reggio Emilia	Reggio Emilia	Campovolo	165,264	[9]
19 July 1988	Bruce Springsteen	Radrennbahn Weissensee	Berlin	Tunnel of Love Express Tour	160,000	[10]
28 June 2013	Ceca	Ušće park	Belgrade	Poziv Tour	150,000	[11]
20 September 1997	U2	Aeroporto di Reggio Emilia	Reggio Emilia	PopMart Tour	150,000	[12]
20 March 1981	Queen	Estádio do Morumbi	São Paulo	The Game Tour	131,000	[13]
29 August 1987	Madonna	Parc de Sceaux	Paris	Who's That Girl World Tour	130,000	[14]
5 August 1995	The Rolling Stones	Strahov Stadium	Prague	Voodoo Lounge Tour	126,742	[15]
11 September 1988	Michael Jackson	Aintree Racecourse	Liverpool	Bad World Tour	125,000	[16]
7 September 1996	Michael Jackson	Letná Park	Prague	HIStory World Tour	125,000	[17]
10 August 1996	Oasis	Knebworth Park	Stevenage	(What's the Story) Morning Glory? Tour	125,000	[18] [19]
11 August 1996					125,000
1 August 2003	Robbie Williams	Knebworth Park	Stevenage	2003 Tour	125,000	[20]
2 August 2003					125,000
3 August 2003					125,000
21 March 1981	Queen	Estádio do Morumbi	São Paulo	The Game Tour	120,000	[13]
25 July 1982	The Rolling Stones	Roundhay Park	Leeds	The Rolling Stones European Tour 1982	120,000	[21]
9 August 1986	Queen	Knebworth Park	Stevenage	Magic Tour	120,000	[22]
6 November 1993	Madonna	Maracanã Stadium	Rio de Janeiro	The Girlie Show World Tour	120,000	[23]
20 September 1996	Michael Jackson	Bemowo, Airport	Warsaw	HIStory World Tour	120,000	[24]
3 September 1977	Grateful Dead  •	Raceway Park	Englishtown	Terrapin Station Tour	107,019	[25]
7 June 2014	George Strait	AT&T Stadium	Arlington, Texas	The Cowboy Rides Away Tour	104,793	[26]
25 November 2017	Ricky Martin	Zócalo	Mexico City	Zócalo Concert	100,000	[27]
28 March 2007	Shakira	Giza Plateau	Cairo	Oral Fixation Tour	100,000	[28]

Free concerts

The following are free concerts with reported attendance of one million people or more. The first ever was by French artist Jean-Michel Jarre in Paris in 1979, which created the Guinness Book entry.[29] It also includes multi-artist festivals which may not be directly comparable with single-artist concerts. Attendance numbers for many of the kinds of events listed here rely on estimations from the promoters and are known to be exaggerations.[1]

Date	Headlining artist	Location	City	Event	Attendance	Ref.
September 6, 1997	Jean-Michel Jarre  •	State University of Moscow	Moscow	The 850th Anniversary of Moscow	>3,500,000	[30]
December 31, 1994	Rod Stewart  •	Copacabana Beach	Rio de Janeiro	New Year's Eve	>3,500,000	[31]
December 31, 1993	Jorge Ben Jor  •	Copacabana Beach	Rio de Janeiro	New Year's Eve	3,000,000	[32]
July 14, 1990	Jean-Michel Jarre  •	La Défense	Paris	Bastille Day	2,500,000	[33]
September 28, 1991	AC/DC, Pantera, Metallica, The Black Crowes, E.S.T.	Tushino Airfield	Moscow	Monsters of Rock	1,600,000	[34][35]
July 2, 2005	Various artists	Philadelphia Museum of Art	Philadelphia	Live 8	1,500,000	[36]
February 18, 2006	The Rolling Stones	Copacabana Beach	Rio de Janeiro	A Bigger Bang	1,500,000	[37][38]
April 5, 1986	Jean-Michel Jarre  •	Downtown Houston	Houston	Rendez-vous Houston	1,300,000	[39][40]
September 20, 2009	Various artists	Plaza de la Revolución	Havana	Paz Sin Fronteras II	1,100,000	[41][42]
July 4, 1985	The Beach Boys	Philadelphia Museum of Art	Philadelphia	Independence Day concert	1,000,000	[43]
July 14, 1979	Jean-Michel Jarre  •	Place de la Concorde	Paris	Bastille Day	1,000,000	[29]
June 24, 2001	Antonello Venditti	Circus Maximus	Rome	AS Roma's 3rd Serie A victory	1,000,000	[44]
December 31, 2006	The Black Eyed Peas	Copacabana Beach	Rio de Janeiro	New Year's Eve	1,000,000

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See also

• List of highest-grossing concert tours

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