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The largest attendance for a ticketed concert (220,000) This article lists the most-attended music concerts of all time. The oldest 100,000-crowd concert reported to Billboard Boxscore is Grateful Dead's gig at the Raceway Park, Englishtown, New Jersey on September 3, 1977. The concert was attended by 107,019 people.
Coldplay's Music of the Spheres World Tour is the most-attended tour of all time, with a total of 10.3 million tickets sold in 175 shows. The following is a list of the most-attended concert tours with at least 3.5 million tickets sold, as well as the tours with the most tickets sold by year and the most tickets sold in a single day.
Some of the highest-grossing tours had extensive schedules spanning multiple years. Among the top 20 tours of all time, Elton John's Farewell Yellow Brick Road is the longest-running tour with a total of 330 shows in five different calendar years, while Beyoncé's Renaissance World Tour is the shortest one with 56 shows in a single year.
Chicago's music scene has been well known for its blues music for many years. "Chicago Blues" uses a variety of instruments in a way which heavily influenced early rock and roll music, including instruments like electrically amplified guitar, drums, piano, bass guitar and sometimes the saxophone or harmonica, which are generally used in Delta blues, which originated in Mississippi.
Taylor Swift is the highest-grossing live music artist of all time, collecting $3 billion according to Pollstar. The Rolling Stones are the highest-grossing live music group of all time, collecting over $2.9 billion according to Billboard Boxscore. U2, Coldplay, and Elton John also passed two-billion mark in concert revenue.
The best-selling musicians of all time include Taylor Swift, Tim McGraw, and Whitney Houston. RIAA ranked the best-selling musicians of all time based on total album units sold in the US.
ChicagoFest was a Chicago music festival established in 1978 by Mayor Michael Bilandic.It was a two-week event held annually at Navy Pier that featured sixteen separate stages, each sponsored by a national retail brand and a media sponsor compatible to the stage's format, e.g. Rock WLUP, Chicago Tribune Jazz, Miller Brewing Company Blues and WXRT, that broadcast live from the festival.
The band is also the highest-charting American band in Billboard Magazine’s Top 125 Artists Of All Time. Chicago released their 38th studio album, "Born for This Moment," in 2022, with 14 new songs.