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Rolling Stone reports:
Madonna closed out her career-spanning Celebration Tour Saturday with a free concert at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil’s Copacabana Beach in front of 1.6 million fans, setting the record for the largest audience ever for a stand-alone concert by any artist in history.
The performance marked Madonna’s first time performing in Brazil since 2012, and was heralded as “a thank you to her fans for celebrating more than four decades of her music over the course of the epic global run of the tour,” Live Nation previously said of the event.
Copacabana Beach has long been a magnet for epic, well-populated shows, notably a Rolling Stones gig in 2006 that drew an estimated (and then record-setting) 1.5 million fans.
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Madonna closed out her Celebration Tour Saturday with a concert at Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana Beach in front of a record-setting 1.6 million fans https://t.co/C7njuFtRG1
— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) May 5, 2024
.@Madonna makes history in Rio tonight marking the largest ever standalone concert for any artist, with over 1.6 million fans attending as she closes The Celebration Tour! pic.twitter.com/czryOx2q6i
— Live Nation (@LiveNation) May 5, 2024
I love to see amateur videos taken by the crowd during @Madonna Rio concert. This is Hung up pic.twitter.com/pfTG8y9rJo
— Ben (@Ben72781694) May 5, 2024
Pop culture event of the century! History was made tonight in Brazil 🇧🇷. 1.6 million Madonna fans descended upon Copacabana beach in Rio. #MadonnaCelebrationTourInRio pic.twitter.com/SB3K1YQW8u
— KYLE B. (@digital__junkie) May 5, 2024
Madonna makes history with her free show in Rio de Janeiro marking the biggest standalone concert for any artist ever.
Over 1.6 million people attended the show. pic.twitter.com/fHhUURolTl
— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) May 5, 2024
Madonna Makes History Performing To 1.6million Crowd In Rio On Final Night Of Tour https://t.co/xJWVhE0aOj
— Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) May 5, 2024