List of highest-attended free concerts
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This is a list of the largest concerts ever performed, in terms of estimated attendance. The following list 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]
Artists | Attendance | Show | Location | Other artists | Remarks |
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Jean-Michel Jarre | 3,500,000 | Oxygene in Moscow | Moscow, 1997 | - | |
Rod Stewart | 3,500,000[2] | Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, 1994 | - | ||
Jean Michel Jarre | 2,500,000 | Paris La Défense: A City in Concert | Paris, 1990 | [citation needed] | |
Beyoncé | 1,700,000 | President Barack Obama inauguration | Washington D1.C. 2008 | ||
AC/DC, Pantera, Metallica, The Black Crowes, E.S.T. | 1,600,000 | Monsters of Rock | Moscow, 1991[citation needed] | ||
Paul van Dyk, Carl Cox, Armin Van Buuren | 1,600,000 | Love Parade (Highway to love) | Dortmund, 2008 | The largest dance music event[citation needed] | |
The Rolling Stones | 1,500,000 | Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro | 2006[3] | ||
Various artists | 1,500,000 | Paz Sin Fronteras II | Havana, 2009 | ||
Various artists | 1,500,000 [4] | Live 8 Concert | Philadelphia, 2005 | Live 8 was a string of benefit concerts, on 2 July 2005, in the G8 states and in South Africa. | |
Tiësto, Paul Van Dyk, Carl Cox, and Armin Van Buuren | 1,400,000 | Art of love | Duisburg, 2010 | plus other DJs | a crowd rush at the Love Parade caused the death of 21 people, with at least 500 others injured |
Various Artists (including Jean Michel Jarre) | 1,300,000 | Rendezvous Houston Festival | Houston, April 5, 1986 | 150th Anniversary of Texas, 25th Birthday of NASA | |
Various Artists | 1,300,000 | Love Parade (One World One Loveparade) | Berlin, 2000 | ||
Jean Michel Jarre | 1,200,000 | Concert for Tolerance | Paris, 1995 | ||
Various artists | 1,200,000 | Love Parade (The is Back) | Berlin, 2006 | ||
Various artists | 1,200,000 | Love Parade (Love is everywhere) | Essen, 2007 | ||
Jean Michel Jarre | 1,000,000 | La Concorde | Paris, 1979 | ||
Baustelle, Edoardo Bennato, Biogora, Caparezza, Enrico Capuano, Ascanio Celestini, Luciano Ligabue, Marco Marzocca, Marlene Kuntz, Luca Medici, Modena City Ramblers | 1,000,000 | Concerto del Primo Maggio | Rome, 2006 | ||
Rammstein | 800,000-1,200,000 | Rock Over Volga Festival | Russia, 2013 | Various Artists | |
Bruce Springsteen, Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Joan Baez | 800,000 - 1,000,000 | Anti-nuclear protests in the United States | New York, 1982 | Most attended political concert | |
Springsteen | 800,000-1,200,000 | East Berlin | Germany, 1988 | ||
Garth Brooks | 980,000 | Garth: Live from Central Park | Central Park, New York City, 1997 | Billy Joel, Don McLean | Most attended concert in park history |
Allman Brothers Band, The Band, Grateful Dead | 600,000 | Summer Jam at Watkins Glen, 1973 | New York, 1973 | Largest attendance for pop festival | |
Genesis | 500,000 | When in Rome 2007 | Rome, 2007 | ||
The Rolling Stones | 500,000 | Berkeley Square, London | London, 2006 | ||
The Rolling Stones | 500,000[8] | Rolling Stones en La Habana | Ciudad Deportiva, Havana, 2016 |
Part of the América Latina Olé Tour 2016 |
References
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- ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02fdmlq.
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