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Tomous
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No:1 Final Fantasy Fan wrote:Moggy wrote:Madonna is nothing compared to Rod Stewart.Rod Stewart's 1994 New Year's Eve Concert at Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro is the biggest concert in history. It had 4.2 million people and was free. The legendary Rod Stewart brought the roof down through his performance. The concert holds the top spot in the Guinness Book of Records.
Fair do to Rod Stewart but that was back in 1994 when people went out more. I think Madonna's record in 2024 is definitely breaking world records again and at her current stage of her career that's incredible. Rightly so as the Queen of Pop!
What record though?
According to this there have been five concerns with bigger attendances than her, and she's tied with the Monsters of Rock tour: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_m ... d_concerts
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No:1 Final Fantasy Fan wrote:Moggy wrote:Madonna is nothing compared to Rod Stewart.Rod Stewart's 1994 New Year's Eve Concert at Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro is the biggest concert in history. It had 4.2 million people and was free. The legendary Rod Stewart brought the roof down through his performance. The concert holds the top spot in the Guinness Book of Records.
Fair do to Rod Stewart but that was back in 1994 when people went out more. I think Madonna's record in 2024 is definitely breaking world records again and at her current stage of her career that's incredible. Rightly so as the Queen of Pop!
She might have broken the record for 2024. But she's not broken any world record.
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Tomous wrote:Also, people went out more in 1994?
World population in 1994 was 5.6 billion.
Today it's 8.1billion.
So Rod Stewart's concert is far more impressive than Madonna's because there were less people 30 years ago.
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No:1 Final Fantasy Fan
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Tomous wrote:Also, people went out more in 1994?
Yeah it's true and they have more ways to watch a gig like on stream and may not necessarily go out. So for Madonna to draw a crowd of 1.6m in 2024 is a world record breaker.
Just like how people stream music so album sales are not what they used to be seen as.
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Moggy wrote:Tomous wrote:Also, people went out more in 1994?
World population in 1994 was 5.6 billion.
Today it's 8.1billion.
So Rod Stewart's concert is far more impressive than Madonna's because there were less people 30 years ago.
Also Rod Stewart had his on NYE which is when it's busy anyway.
Moggy wrote:Cuttooth wrote:Do you know what a record is?
I'm waiting for him to say "a bit like a big CD but people stream nowadays so it doesn't count as music"
Yes a record is physically a vinyl record or could also just refer to an album.
Thriller?Moggy wrote:Un Verano Sin Ti by Bad Bunny is the world record breaking album. Nobody else comes close.
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Tomous
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Went to see Sons of East on Saturday in the O2 Institute, an Australian indie band that I've loved ever since I first happened upon them on Spotify. They were excellent live but it was quite an odd gig-they're quite mellow and folk/country influenced-acoustic guitars, banjos, harmonies etc but the crowd was fully of middle aged people who had been clearly drinking all day at Pride in Birmingham so was rowdy as strawberry float. 
The guitarist at 1 point said he'd met someone at 11am on their way to a rave and asked if that was normal for here
But yeah, venue was brilliant-it was 1 of the smaller stages in the O2 Institute so only a few hundred people. Great acoustics and a great view of the band. Nothing like seeing a band you love in those circumstances. Even if you have to listen to a couple of old drunken farts next to you argue for the first 45 minutes over strawberry float knows what
The guitarist at 1 point said he'd met someone at 11am on their way to a rave and asked if that was normal for here
But yeah, venue was brilliant-it was 1 of the smaller stages in the O2 Institute so only a few hundred people. Great acoustics and a great view of the band. Nothing like seeing a band you love in those circumstances. Even if you have to listen to a couple of old drunken farts next to you argue for the first 45 minutes over strawberry float knows what
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