Woman Gaga Performs to File-Breaking Crowd at Rio’s Copacabana Seaside

Woman Gaga carried out to a record-breaking crowd Saturday at Rio De Janeiro, Brazil as an estimated 2.5 million individuals attended the singer’s free live performance on Copacabana Seaside.

The gig marked the very best attended live performance by a feminine artist in historical past, in keeping with the singer’s reps, eclipsing the 1.6 million individuals Madonna drew to the identical venue final 12 months.

“Tonight, we’re making historical past… Thanks for making historical past with me,” Woman Gaga instructed the gang, which included over 1,000,000 Brazilians in addition to a reported 500,000 Little Monsters who flew in for the particular present, which injected over $100 million into Rio’s economic system, NPR reported.

The document holder for largest live performance crowd in historical past — in keeping with Guinness World Information — stays Rod Stewart, who attracted a crowd of over 4 million to Copacabana Seaside on New 12 months’s Eve in 1994.

The Copacabana Seaside live performance marked Woman Gaga’s first live performance in Brazil since 2012. “I’ve missed you a lot”, she instructed an infinite crowd that gathered the earlier night time simply to observe her soundcheck. “I do know that this isn’t the primary present right here, I do know that is only a rehearsal, it feels prefer it’s the actual present.”

The live performance itself discovered Gaga replicating the five-act “gothic opera” that she carried out throughout her headlining units at Coachella and different Mayhem Ball stops up to now. She’ll subsequent journey to Singapore for 4 exhibits in that nation later this month earlier than the North American area leg of the Mayhem Ball tour begins in July.

Rio De Janeiro’s tourism division beforehand introduced plans to proceed staging free Copacabana Seaside concert events till a minimum of 2028