A WORLD-RECORD 2.3 million mense rocked up for Lady Gaga uitgepakte mega-concert in Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana Beach.
Sunday night’s turnout was the largest for a female artist - Jean-Michel Jarre's concert in Moscow in 1997 and Rod Stewart's 1994 concert on the Copacabana both boasted more than three million attendees.
Lady Gaga on Sunday thanked her fans in Brazil on social media for “the biggest crowd for any woman in history”.
She tweeted: “Your heart shines so bright, your culture is so vibrant and special, I hope you know how grateful I am to have shared this historical moment with you.”
The gig was part of a strategy by Rio to hold mega-concerts in May in an effort to boost tourism during what is considered the low season.
All week, Gaga fans had flocked to Rio, a city famous for its annual Carnival that attracts hundreds of thousands of tourists from around the world.
Mayor Eduardo Paes has also hinted that he plans to bring in Irish rock band U2, although no date has been given.
Lady Gaga had kicked off her show perched more than two metres (6.5 feet) above the stage in a massive scarlet hoop gown which opened to reveal a vertical cage from which her dancers exited to a rendition of her 2011 song Bloody Mary.
But it could have all ended in tragedy if it was not for the Brazilian police stopping a bomb attack on the jol.
Rio's civil police force said that together with the ministry of justice it “prevented a bomb attack that would have occurred at Lady Gaga's concert in Copacabana” on Saturday night.
Writing on X, Rio police said it had arrested an adult who was “responsible for the plot” as well as a teenager in the operation codenamed “Fake Monster” -- a reference to the US pop diva's pet name for her fans, "Little Monsters."
It said they had recruited people online to "carry out attacks using improvised explosives" and Molotov cocktails as "a collective challenge" with the aim of "gaining notoriety on social media."
The police added that the group behind the alleged plot "spread hate speech" and promoted radicalization and self-harm online.
"The police acted silently and without creating panic... We acted surgically to prevent the crime from happening," Felipe Curi from Rio De Janeiro's Civil Police said in a statement.
BIGGEST-EVER CONCERTS
Top 5 according to wikipedia
Attendance: >3 500 000
Artist and date: Rod Stewart (New Year’s Eve 1994)
Venue: Copacabana Beach
Attendance: 3 500 000
Artist and date: Jean-Michael Jarre (1997)
Venue: Moscow State University
Attendance: 3 000 000
Artist and date: Jorge Ben (New Year’s Eve 1993)
Venue: Copacabana Beach
Attendance: 2 500 000
Artist and date: Jean-Michael Jarre (Bastille Day 1990)
Venue: La Defense, Paris
Attendance: 2 300 000
Artist and date: Lady Gaga (May 2025)
Venue: Copacabana Beach