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  1. Hi friends!
    U2's live shows are thousands and thousands. But which of them has had the largest audience?
    And it'd be interesting to know also the tour with the largest medium audience.
    Among us, here in U2START, there is a lot of U2 experts who could contribute to answer these questions.
    I myself am going to surf the Net to answer right now!!!
  2. I think it was the Reggio Emilia Popmart Show. 150.000 Italians went to this one!!!
  3. Hi, i think it's "Slane Castle 2001". Both Shows(25.08 / 01.09.) together
    with a total of 157.418 People!!!!!!!
  4. I think Coen is right with the largest audience for one Show!
  5. Originally posted by CoenI think it was the Reggio Emilia Popmart Show. 150.000 Italians went to this one!!!


    You've anticipated me of just a few minutes in writing this piece of news! Thank you!
    Yes, I'm just reading on http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=29052 that on that occasion they break the world record of the Rolling Stones. That show was on the 20th of September 1997, I think...
    But did they break again that record between 1997 and today? I suppose yes.... But I don't know at all!
  6. U2 currently still holds the world record of the largest paying audience on a single show without support with the 150.000 people in Reggio Emilia. There are a lot of other concerts and festivals out there with a higher attendance but this was always for multiple acts or just for free.
  7. Originally posted by RemyU2 currently still holds the world record of the largest paying audience on a single show without support with the 150.000 people in Reggio Emilia. There are a lot of other concerts and festivals out there with a higher attendance but this was always for multiple acts or just for free.


    Remy, your huge knowoledge about U2 is blinding me day by day!!
    THANK YOU BY EVERYONE HERE!!!
  8. wow. i didn't realize U2 did reggio-emilia with no opening act. that makes our discussion MUCH easier...

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    luciano pavarotti 1993-06-26 - new york, new york - central park: 250.000 --- FREE
    simon & garfunkel 1981-09-19 - new york, new york - central park: 500.000 --- FREE
    paul mccartney 2003-05-11 - rome, italy - outside roman colosseum: 500.000 --- FREE (& day after bono's bday )
    garth brooks 1997-08-07 - new york, new york - central park: 750.000? (unknown) -- FREE
    rolling stones 2006-02-18 - rio, brazil - copacabana beach: 1.200.000 --- FREE
    rod stewart 1994-12-31 - rio, brazil - copacabana beach: 3.500.000 --- FREE & NEW YEAR'S
    -(i highly doubt the performance compares to Point Depot of course!)

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    unfortunately, guinness book of records recognized a-ha's performance in the 1991-01-26 as "biggest paying audience."
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_in_Rio

    however, it was also part of the rock in rio II festival, in which tickets were sold w/ foreknowledge of all the non-headliners for that one day. so it's misleading to say that 195.000 paid to see a-ha

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    so by our standards (paying and no supporting act) U2 are still on top!
  9. I was in Reggio Emilia: my first U2 show I'm dissapointed but the record it's now in the hands of Luciano Ligabue, an italian rocker, that without support acts sold 200.000 tickets for a concert in the same site where U2 played in 1997, which is a big park used as a civil airport in the past.
  10. Originally posted by MarcantonioI was in Reggio Emilia: my first U2 show I'm dissapointed but the record it's now in the hands of Luciano Ligabue, an italian rocker, that without support acts sold 200.000 tickets for a concert in the same site where U2 played in 1997, which is a big park used as a civil airport in the past.


    Love your avatar
  11. Originally posted by Macphistfly[..]

    Love your avatar


    Thanks!
  12. Originally posted by Marcantonio[..]

    Thanks!


    Yeah me too, do you have this photo in a higher resolution?