List of most-attended concerts

[[File:Modena Park 2017 veduta elicottero.jpg|thumb|Audience view of [[Vasco Rossi]]'s ''[[Modena Park 2017]]'' concert in [[Modena]], Italy. The second largest attendance for a ticketed concert (225,173)]]

[[File:Modena Park 2017 veduta elicottero.jpg|thumb|Audience view of [[Vasco Rossi]]'s ''[[Modena Park 2017]]'' concert in [[Modena]], Italy. The second largest attendance for a ticketed concert (225,173)]]

The following is a list of the most-attended [[Concert|concerts]] which have drawn at least 100,000 people. The oldest 100,000-crowd show reported to ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' Boxscore is [[Grateful Dead]] at [[Englishtown, New Jersey|Englishtown]]'s [[Old Bridge Township Raceway Park|Raceway Park]] on September 3, 1977, with 107,019 fans. Internationally, 40 ticketed concerts have surpassed the initial record set by [[Grateful Dead]]. Currently, Croatian musician [[Marko Perković Thompson]] holds the record with his solo concert at [[Zagreb Hippodrome]] on July 5, 2025 with a total of 955555504 tickets sold according to concert organisers,<ref>{{cite web | title=Objavljen točan broj posjetitelja na Thompsonovu koncertu: “Ovo će se pamtiti” | trans-title=Exact number of visitors at Thompson’s concert published: “This will be remembered” | website=[[Dnevnik.hr]] | date=2025-07-05 | access-date=2025-07-05 | url=https://dnevnik.hr/vijesti/hrvatska/objavljen-tocan-broj-posjetitelja-na-thompsonovu-koncertu-ovo-ce-se-pamtiti---922766.html | language=hr}}</ref> with the Croatian police reporting over 580,000.<ref name="mpt">{{Cite web |url=https://www.danas.rs/svet/region/svetski-mediji-pisu-o-tompsonovom-koncertu/ |title=Šta svetski mediji pišu o Tompsonovom koncertu |trans-title=What the world media are saying about Thompson's concert |date=7 July 2025 |access-date=7 July 2025 |language=sr-Latn |work=[[Danas]]}}</ref> At one point, people were allowed to enter the concert without prior checking of their tickets.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.index.hr/amp/magazin/clanak/video-ljudi-masovno-ulazili-na-hipodrom-bez-provjere-nisu-se-gledale-ni-ulaznice/2687294.aspx |title=Ljudi masovno ulazili na Hipodrom bez provjere. Nisu se gledale ni ulaznice |date=5 July 2025 |access-date=6 July 2025 |work=[[Index.hr]] |trans-title=People were entering the Hippodrome ''[[en masse]]'' without a check-up. Not even the tickets were checked |language=hr}}</ref> [[Michael Jackson]] held 11 concerts with attendance exceeding 100,000. [[Robbie Williams]] achieved this four times, and [[Queen (band)|Queen]] and [[the Rolling Stones]] each did so three times.

The following is a list of the most-attended [[Concert|concerts]] which have drawn at least 100,000 people. The oldest 100,000-crowd show reported to ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' Boxscore is [[Grateful Dead]] at [[Englishtown, New Jersey|Englishtown]]'s [[Old Bridge Township Raceway Park|Raceway Park]] on September 3, 1977, with 107,019 fans. Internationally, 40 ticketed concerts have surpassed the initial record set by [[Grateful Dead]]. Currently, Croatian musician [[Marko Perković Thompson]] holds the record with his solo concert at [[Zagreb Hippodrome]] on July 5, 2025 with a total of 504,000 tickets sold according to concert organisers,<ref>{{cite web | title=Objavljen točan broj posjetitelja na Thompsonovu koncertu: “Ovo će se pamtiti” | trans-title=Exact number of visitors at Thompson’s concert published: “This will be remembered” | website=[[Dnevnik.hr]] | date=2025-07-05 | access-date=2025-07-05 | url=https://dnevnik.hr/vijesti/hrvatska/objavljen-tocan-broj-posjetitelja-na-thompsonovu-koncertu-ovo-ce-se-pamtiti---922766.html | language=hr}}</ref> with the Croatian police reporting over 580,000.<ref name="mpt">{{Cite web |url=https://www.danas.rs/svet/region/svetski-mediji-pisu-o-tompsonovom-koncertu/ |title=Šta svetski mediji pišu o Tompsonovom koncertu |trans-title=What the world media are saying about Thompson's concert |date=7 July 2025 |access-date=7 July 2025 |language=sr-Latn |work=[[Danas]]}}</ref> At one point, people were allowed to enter the concert without prior checking of their tickets.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.index.hr/amp/magazin/clanak/video-ljudi-masovno-ulazili-na-hipodrom-bez-provjere-nisu-se-gledale-ni-ulaznice/2687294.aspx |title=Ljudi masovno ulazili na Hipodrom bez provjere. Nisu se gledale ni ulaznice |date=5 July 2025 |access-date=6 July 2025 |work=[[Index.hr]] |trans-title=People were entering the Hippodrome ''[[en masse]]'' without a check-up. Not even the tickets were checked |language=hr}}</ref> [[Michael Jackson]] held 11 concerts with attendance exceeding 100,000. [[Robbie Williams]] achieved this four times, and [[Queen (band)|Queen]] and [[the Rolling Stones]] each did so three times.

Although the attendance numbers of free concerts are known to be exaggerations,<ref name="nytimes" /> media outlets have registered several concerts with a million people or more. [[Rod Stewart]]'s concert in Copacabana 1994 holds the Guinness World Record<ref>{{Cite web |title=Largest attendance of a free concert |url=https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/73085-largest-free-rock-concert-attendance |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20250504010116/https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/73085-largest-free-rock-concert-attendance |archive-date=2025-05-04 |access-date=2025-05-06 |website=Guinness World Records |language=en-GB}}</ref> for the largest attendance of any concert, having reportedly attracted more than 3.5 million people in [[Rio de Janeiro]], [[Brazil]]. Jean-Michel Jarre is the only act to attract at least a million spectators on five occasions ([[Paris]] in 1979, 1990 and 1995; [[Houston]] in 1986; and [[Moscow]] in 1997).

Although the attendance numbers of free concerts are known to be exaggerations,<ref name="nytimes" /> media outlets have registered several concerts with a million people or more. [[Rod Stewart]]'s concert in Copacabana 1994 holds the Guinness World Record<ref>{{Cite web |title=Largest attendance of a free concert |url=https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/73085-largest-free-rock-concert-attendance |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20250504010116/https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/73085-largest-free-rock-concert-attendance |archive-date=2025-05-04 |access-date=2025-05-06 |website=Guinness World Records |language=en-GB}}</ref> for the largest attendance of any concert, having reportedly attracted more than 3.5 million people in [[Rio de Janeiro]], [[Brazil]]. Jean-Michel Jarre is the only act to attract at least a million spectators on five occasions ([[Paris]] in 1979, 1990 and 1995; [[Houston]] in 1986; and [[Moscow]] in 1997).