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Largest paid attendance for a rock group

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June 10, 2017, 09:13 AM
midwest guy
Largest paid attendance for a rock group
World record for largest paid attendance for a rock group? Thanks

1: U2

2: The Police

3: The Beatles

4: The Killers

5: Fleetwood Mac

6: None of the above
June 10, 2017, 12:43 PM
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U2


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June 10, 2017, 01:21 PM
IndyRob
6

It's Paul McCartney in Rio with 185.000 people according to Guinness.

U2 holds the record in the US with 97K at the Rose Bowl
June 10, 2017, 01:53 PM
oddball
Don't know if it counts, but Van Halen headlined one of the days at The US Festival in the 80s, drawing close to 400,000 paying customers. Judas Priest, Ozzy, and others opened.


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June 10, 2017, 02:49 PM
midwest guy
McCartneys record was broken for a paying audience at the Rio Maracana stadium by the Norwegian group A-ha, a total of 198000 . I was quite surprised to uncover that in looking at the history of A-ha. I had thought of them as a one hit wonder group, however they have sold 100 million albums worldwide!
June 12, 2017, 09:02 PM
SpinZone
quote:
Originally posted by midwest guy:
McCartneys record was broken for a paying audience at the Rio Maracana stadium by the Norwegian group A-ha, a total of 198000 . I was quite surprised to uncover that in looking at the history of A-ha. I had thought of them as a one hit wonder group, however they have sold 100 million albums worldwide!


I didn't see that one coming.


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June 13, 2017, 07:11 PM
David W
A-Ha is my 14 month old girls favorite band at the momentSmile


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