The following is a list of the most-attended concerts in history, including ticketed concerts with at least 100,000 tickets sold and free concerts with at least one million attendees. The list excludes concerts that are part of music festivals.
The first concert to sell at least 100,000 tickets was by the Grateful Dead at Englishtown Raceway Park in 1977, with 107,019 tickets sold. Currently, Marko Perković Thompson holds the record for the concert with the most tickets sold, held in 2025 at the Zagreb Hippodrome, with 504,027 tickets sold. Additionally, Michael Jackson held 11 concerts with at least 100,000 tickets sold, Robbie Williams held four such concerts, and Queen, the Rolling Stones and Marko Perković Thompson each held such concert three times.
The attendance numbers of free concerts are often exaggerations. The first to attract at least one million attendees was by Jean-Michel Jarre on Place de la Concorde in 1979. Rod Stewart holds the record for highest attendance, 1994 at Copacabana Beach, drawing over 3.5 million attendees. Additionally, Jarre held a total of five free concerts with over a million spectators. Madonna, Lady Gaga, and Shakira are the only female artists to have held such concerts. Each did so once, with Gaga holding the female attendance record with an audience estimated at 2.1 to 2.5 million.
Ticketed concerts +Key Indicates the concert had sold the most tickets up to that point
+Concerts with over 100,000 tickets sold Rank Tickets sold Artist Venue City Event Date 1 Zagreb Hippodrome Zagreb Hodočasnik Tour 2025 July 5, 2025 2 Ultimo Piazzale Giovanni Paolo II Rome La Favola Per Sempre July 4, 2026 3 Parco Enzo Ferrari Modena Modena Park 2017 July 1, 2017 4 Bijelo Dugme Belgrade Hippodrome Belgrade Turneja 2005 June 28, 2005 5 Glay Makuhari Messe Chiba Glay Expo'99 Survival July 31, 1999 6 Predio La Colmena Olavarría Olavarría 2017 March 11, 2017 7 Maracanã Stadium Rio de Janeiro April 20, 1990 8 Break Every Rule World Tour January 16, 1988 9 Frank Sinatra Live January 26, 1980 10 Aeroporto di Reggio Emilia Reggio Emilia Campovolo September 10, 2005 11 E Street Band Radrennbahn Weissensee East Berlin Tunnel of Love Express Tour July 19, 1988 12 Hipodrom Sinj Sinj Hodočasnik Tour 2025 August 4, 2025 13 Ceca Ušće Park Belgrade Poziv Tour June 28, 2013 14 U2 Aeroporto di Reggio Emilia Reggio Emilia PopMart Tour September 20, 1997 15 Potsdamer Platz Berlin Live in Berlin July 21, 1990 16 Kiss Maracanã Stadium Rio de Janeiro Creatures of the Night Tour June 18, 1983 17 Phoenix Park Dublin 2003 Tour August 9, 2003 18 Queen Estádio do Morumbi São Paulo March 20, 1981 19 Neue Messe München Munich Rausch Live – In München 2022 August 20, 2022 20 Madonna Parc de Sceaux Paris Who's That Girl World Tour August 29, 1987 21 Great Strahov Stadium Prague Voodoo Lounge Tour August 5, 1995 22 Letná Park Prague HIStory World Tour September 7, 1996 23 Aintree Racecourse Liverpool Bad World Tour September 11, 1988 24 Vasil Levski National Stadium Sofia Great Bulgarian Tour July 24, 1990 25 Michael Jackson Warsaw Babice Airport Warsaw History World Tour September 20, 1996 26 Trentino Music Arena Trento Vasco Live Tour 2022 May 20, 2022 27 Ceca Ušće Park Belgrade Grom Tour June 17, 2006 28 Madonna Maracanã Stadium Rio de Janeiro November 6, 1993 29 Roundhay Park Leeds European Tour 1982 July 25, 1982 30 Queen Estádio do Morumbi São Paulo March 21, 1981 31 Kanye West Atatürk Olympic Stadium Istanbul May 30, 2026 32 Pink Floyd Strahov Stadium Prague September 7, 1994 33 Michigan Stadium Ann Arbor September 27, 2025 34 Coldplay Narendra Modi Stadium Ahmedabad Music of the Spheres World Tour January 26, 2025 35 January 25, 2025 36 Kyle Field College Station The King at Kyle Field June 15, 2024 37 Estadio Azteca Mexico City Dangerous World Tour November 11, 1993 38 November 9, 1993 39 November 7, 1993 40 October 31, 1993 41 October 29, 1993 42 Melbourne Cricket Ground Melbourne March 3, 2023 43 March 2, 2023 44 Grateful Dead Raceway Park Englishtown Terrapin Station Tour September 3, 1977 45 AC/DC RCF Arena Reggio Emilia Power Up Tour May 25, 2024 46 Estádio do Morumbi São Paulo Dangerous World Tour October 17, 1993 47 October 15, 1993 48 AT&T Stadium Arlington June 7, 2014 49 Tiger Stadium Baton Rouge April 30, 2022 50 Industrial zone Vukovar Vukovar Hodočasnik Tour 2026 August 29, 2026 51 Hua Chenyu Beijing National Stadium Beijing 2023 Mars Concert Tour September 9, 2023 52 September 10, 2023 53 RCF Arena Reggio Emilia Love On Tour July 23, 2023 54 Sandy & Junior Barra Olympic Park Rio de Janeiro Nossa História November 9, 2019 55 Zócalo Mexico City One World Tour November 25, 2017 56 Shakira Giza Plateau Cairo Oral Fixation Tour March 28, 2007 57 Luna Sea Tokyo Big Sight Tokyo 10th Anniversary Gig May 30, 1999 58 Yarkon Park Tel Aviv Dangerous World Tour September 21, 1993 59 Odaiba Tokyo Sweat & Tears Tokyo-Bay Area August 3, 1986 60 Bob Marley and the Wailers San Siro Milan Uprising Tour June 27, 1980
Free concerts +Keys Indicates the concert had the highest attendance up to that point Indicates a standalone free concert
+Concerts with over 1 million people in attendance Rank Attendees Artist Venue City Event Date 1 Copacabana Beach Rio de Janeiro New Year's Eve in Copacabana December 31, 1994 2 Moscow State University Moscow 850th Anniversary of Moscow September 6, 1997 3 Copacabana Beach Rio de Janeiro New Year's Eve in Copacabana December 31, 1993 4 La Défense Paris Bastille Day July 14, 1990 5 Copacabana Beach Rio de Janeiro Todo Mundo no Rio May 3, 2025 6 Shakira May 2, 2026 7 Diante do Trono Campo de Marte Airport São Paulo Quero Me Apaixonar July 12, 2003 8 Circus Maximus Rome AS Roma's 3rd Serie A Victory June 24, 2001 9 Madonna Copacabana Beach Rio de Janeiro Todo Mundo no Rio May 4, 2024 10 Calvin Harris Consolação Street São Paulo Skol Carnival Block February 8, 2026 11 Copacabana Beach Rio de Janeiro February 18, 2006 12 Various Philadelphia Museum of Art Philadelphia Live 8 July 2, 2005 13 Tushino Airfield Moscow Monsters of Rock September 28, 1991 14 Downtown Houston Houston 150th Anniversary of Houston April 5, 1986 15 Diante do Trono Bahia Administrative Center Salvador Esperança July 10, 2004 16 Ministries Esplanade Brasília Nos Braços do Pai July 13, 2002 17 Various Plaza de la Revolución Havana Paz Sin Fronteras II September 20, 2009 18 Black Eyed Peas Ipanema Beach Rio de Janeiro New Year's Eve December 31, 2006 19 Philadelphia Museum of Art Philadelphia Independence Day July 4, 1985 20 Place de la Concorde Paris Bastille Day July 14, 1979
See also List of highest-grossing live music artists List of highest-grossing concert tours List of highest-grossing concert tours by Latin artists List of highest-grossing concert tours by women List of highest-grossing benefit concerts
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