Talk:List of highest-attended free concerts

10 September 2012
The numbers for all the Loveparade-concerts are probably exaggerated, after the Love Parade stampede in Duisburg, the organizers stated, that the numbers have always been exaggerated to increase media attention and sponsor fees. 91.3.221.191 (talk) 07:28, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

20 April 2013
People have been vandalizing heavily this page in the last 48 hours. I tried to correct it but the site of the source is currently down. If somebody could look into it, it would be nice. Oh, also I can't find any source on the Babbu Maan concert, only Indian people citing this very article. --201.214.237.106 (talk) 07:24, 20 April 2013 (UTC)

27 December 2013
Looks like somebody has put an Indian concert with just 400,000 audience on top, obviously that does not belong here. Vola31 (talk) 22:07, 27 December 2013 (UTC)

Jarre in Moscow
Largest concert to date: J.M. Jarre in Moscow in 1997, 3,5 kk audience.

SF 83.13.239.255 (talk) 10:29, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

Nonsense numbers
it appears that probably all of these numbers are utterly made-up and total exaggerations...particularly the garth brooks number: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/23/nyregion/23about.html--68.48.241.158 (talk) 22:29, 30 May 2016 (UTC)
 * I tend to agree. The low utility of this article never ceases to amaze me. Martinevans123 (talk) 17:16, 17 June 2017 (UTC)

Beyonce and President Obama's 2009 Inauguration
Beyonce did not perform at the Inauguration ceremony where the crowd estimate of 1.8 million comes from. She only performed at the Inaugural Ball later that evening. See: First inauguration of Barack Obama. I doubt that the capacity of the dance hall for the Neighborhood Inaugural Ball was anywhere near 1 million.

The 1.8 million total was the attendance for the afternoon inauguration. "Beyonce, ... will get to sing the first song of the night - expected to be Etta James's soul classic 'At Last' - to the new president and First Lady."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1124085/Oprah-Beyonc-Jay-Z-lead-celebrations-President-Obama-takes-place-A-list.html

The actual performers at the Inauguration were:


 * "... the invocation for the inaugural ceremony, followed by a performance by vocalist Aretha Franklin, who sang "My Country, 'Tis of Thee". The program featured a performance of John Williams' composition "Air and Simple Gifts", which was both pre-recorded and performed live synched with the recording by cellist Yo-Yo Ma, violinist Itzhak Perlman, pianist Gabriela Montero and clarinetist Anthony McGill." First inauguration of Barack Obama

"Aretha Franklin to sing at Obama inauguration: Yo-Yo Ma played cello, accompanied by violinist Itzhak Perlman". MSNBC. Associated Press. December 17, 2008. Retrieved December 21, 2008

So, if any performer gets credit for the "concert" attendance, it would be Aretha Franklin, Yo-Yo Ma and Itzhak Perlman. However, I don't think any of them nor all of them combined are what drew the 1.8 million people that afternoon. The people were there to see the swearing in of the first African-American President.

Lyndon Johnson holds the record for the highest inauguration attendance. Did he have any singers or Performers at the Inauguration ceremony? If there were, that would be the largest Inauguration "concert" attendance.

I don't think an inauguration counts as a "concert." The people aren't drawn there to hear the performers. Therefore this entry should be removed. Ileanadu (talk) 19:00, 25 January 2017 (UTC)

"Free"
For most of these entries there is no evidence that there event took place, let alone that it was "free". I see that we also have an article for List of highest-attended paid concerts, and I assume that's the reason why the name was move here. Is that correct? I also note that in this article the Live 8 is described as "a string of benefit concerts, on 2 July 2005, in the G8 states and in South Africa...." I assume that means you had to buy a ticket? So it should now removed? Thanks. Martinevans123 (talk) 10:07, 9 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Live 8 is free concerts. Do you really believe they printed 1.5 million tickets :O That's utterly insane. I agree that this article is a huge mess, and I don't think I'm interested in expanding it, lol. These figures were just purley estimations and some of them seems exaggerated. Pollstar and Billboard never confirm them. Bluesatellite (talk) 12:38, 9 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Please don't call me "utterly insane". And could you please explain exactly how they were "benefit concerts"? Thanks. Martinevans123 (talk) 16:06, 9 December 2017 (UTC)
 * LOL, I'm not calling you. I was referring to printing 1.5 million tickets (which is insane if they did). Did you read the link I give above about it be free concert? By the way that's not my concern to explain why it is a benefit concert, Google is your friend there. Bluesatellite (talk) 16:16, 9 December 2017 (UTC)
 * The current single source for the Live 8 entry here is this. The article says "Live 8 was a string of benefit concerts.." That particular source is not my friend when I try to understand why it was a series of benefit concerts. I thought the idea of those was that people paid money for tickets and the money went to a charity instead of to the performer(s)? Martinevans123 (talk) 16:27, 9 December 2017 (UTC)