How many people attended the biggest free concert ever?
Music hard Data from 1994
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The answer
3,500,000 people
Roughly 3.5M.
Rod Stewart drew an estimated 3.5 million people to Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro on New Year’s Eve 1994. It remains the largest free concert audience ever recorded — roughly the population of Berlin, on one beach.
Where this number comes from
| Source | Guinness World Records |
|---|---|
| Figure refers to | 1994 |
| Last checked | |
| Unit | people |
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