RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - MAY 03: Lady Gaga performs during a massive free show at Copacabana Beach on May 03, 2025 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Photo by Buda Mendes/Getty Images)
Lady Gaga now holds the record for the highest-attended concert by a female artist after drawing over 2 million people to a free show at Rio De Janiero’s Copacabana Beach on Saturday (May 3). Promoting her new album Mayhem, she beat the record previously held by Madonna’s Celebration Tour stop at the same location exactly one year ago today, which had a crowd of 1,600,000. (Rod Stewart’s 1994 New Year’s Eve show, also held at Copacabana Beach, remains the highest-attended concert in history. That must be a big beach.)
