List of most-attended concerts

The following is a list of the most-attended concerts which have drawn at least 100,000 people. The oldest 100,000-crowd show reported to Billboard Boxscore is Grateful Dead at Englishtown's Raceway Park on September 3, 1977, with 107,019 fans. Internationally, 40 paid gigs have surpassed the initial record set by Grateful Dead. Ceca Ražnatović, with dates in 2006 and 2013 in Usce, she holds the record for one of the most attended concerts in the world ever, where more than 150,000 people attended. Frank Sinatra, Tina Turner, and Paul McCartney broke the record respectively in Maracanã Stadium. With an audience of over 200,000 people on July 31, 1999, McCartney's record was broken by Japanese rock band Glay in Chiba, Japan. Glay held the record for six years. Italian singer Vasco Rossi surpassed the record with his solo concert on July 1, 2017 with a total of 225,173 tickets sold at Modena Park.

Although the attendance numbers of free concerts are known to be exaggerations,^[1] media outlets have registered several concerts with a million people or more. Both Jean-Michel Jarre's concert in Moscow 1997 and Rod Stewart's concert in Copacabana 1994 were reported to attract audiences of more than 3.5 million people. Jarre is the only act to attract a million spectators on five occasions (Paris in 1979, 1990 and 1995; Houston in 1986; and Moscow in 1997). In the 21st century, Madonna's closing performance of The Celebration Tour in Rio de Janeiro, which was free to attend, attracted over 1.6 million people,^[2] the most for a free standalone concert.^[3]