U2 Breaks Their Own 22-Year Record

U2 gave a show last week in Pasadena, California (October 25), which was broadcast live on YouTube, which led the Irish band to establish a new American record for the biggest crowd ever to be filmed in a streaming video for a single headliner show.

The 97,014-person crowd beat a 22-year record that was also set by none other than U2 themselves. Bono and his group also hold the top three positions on the list, since, in addition to the October 25 show, the band held a 86,145-spectator concert at Philadelphia’s John F. Kennedy Stadium on September 25, 1987.

The third most crowd-attracting show in the United States took place not too long ago, when the group performed at FedEx Field on September 25 in Landover, Maryland.

In addition to the biggest crowd recorded in history with a single headliner, the Pasadena show landed in second place in terms of concert earnings totalling 9.9 million dollars. The only group to have beaten U2 was The Three Tenors, formed by Luciano Pavarotti, Jose Carreras and Placido Domingo, when they performed at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, and earned a total of 13,404,350 dollars in front of a crowd of only 58,491 people.