<P> This page lists the highest - attended concerts of all time . The oldest 100,000 - crowd concert reported to Billboard Boxscore is Grateful Dead's gig at the Raceway Park, Englishtown, New Jersey on September 3, 1977 . The concert was attended by 107,019 people, which remains the largest ticketed concert in the United States to date . Frank Sinatra, Tina Turner, and Paul McCartney broke the record respectively in Maracanã Stadium . With an audience of over 184,000 people on April 21, 1990, McCartney held the record for 27 years . Italian singer Vasco Rossi surpassed McCartney's record with his solo concert on July 1, 2017 . The concert was a celebration of his 40 years of career . </P> <P> Although the attendance numbers of free concerts are known to be exaggerations, several concerts have been reported to have a million audience or more . According to the Guinness World Records, Rod Stewart's show in Copacabana Beach, Rio de Janeiro, remains the highest - attended free concert with an estimated 3.5 million audience . </P> <Table> Key <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Indicates the concert was the highest - attended of all time up to that point </Td> </Tr> </Table>

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