Largest sold out venue, for a pearl jam show..

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  • JordyWordy
    JordyWordy Posts: 2,261
    those festival guesses are slightly skewed no? i mean thats the attendence at the FESTIVAL on a given day, not at the main stage. I mean, at Lolla, Bonnaroo, Leeds, Reading, etc there are at least 6/7 stages! surely a fair chunk of the crowd were at the other closing acts.

    Festivals that dont have tons of stages have smaller attendances, but similar sized areas for the main stage - eg: werchter, hurricane, southside, azkena, the madrid & lisbon shows from 07, are examples.


    What was the attendence for Nijmegen?

    Id say the south america attendences are highest average for a tour at least
  • firecrotch23
    firecrotch23 Posts: 586
    randomhero_204 wrote:
    what was the attendence for Lollapalooza 07? I thought I heard that the sunday single day tickets where sold out for Pearl Jam.... being in the middle of that crowd (roughly a football field length away from the stage) and looking behind me all I could see was thousands upon thousands of people stretching back as far as the Grant Park Fountain.

    Does anyone actually know what the attendance was for Lolla?
    I heard upwards of 80,000 but it could be more, there were people stretched the length of grant park.
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  • Lone Wolf
    Lone Wolf Posts: 1,023
    JordyWordy wrote:
    those festival guesses are slightly skewed no? i mean thats the attendence at the FESTIVAL on a given day, not at the main stage. I mean, at Lolla, Bonnaroo, Leeds, Reading, etc there are at least 6/7 stages! surely a fair chunk of the crowd were at the other closing acts.

    Festivals that dont have tons of stages have smaller attendances, but similar sized areas for the main stage - eg: werchter, hurricane, southside, azkena, the madrid & lisbon shows from 07, are examples.


    What was the attendence for Nijmegen?

    Id say the south america attendences are highest average for a tour at least


    According to Dutch newspapers Nijmegen was around 40.000.....
    Arnhem (Gelredome) was 32.000.....
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  • rybes
    rybes Posts: 136
    88keys wrote:
    What about somewhere in South America? Those soccer (or football if you prefer) stadiums down there hold upwards of 75,000 people.

    Palacio de los Deportes in Mexico City has approximately 22,000 seats, of course this does not include the floor area, but still I think it would be hard pressed to beat out other venue's already listed.

    As for Lolla, the field was completely packed, there may have been a lot of invited guests that were not official ticket holders, but that section of grant park was packed. Compared to radio head this year, which sold out at 75,000 tickets, I would wager there was more attendance at Pearl Jam last year.
  • unifiedscene
    unifiedscene Posts: 462
    JordyWordy wrote:
    those festival guesses are slightly skewed no? i mean thats the attendence at the FESTIVAL on a given day, not at the main stage. I mean, at Lolla, Bonnaroo, Leeds, Reading, etc there are at least 6/7 stages! surely a fair chunk of the crowd were at the other closing acts.

    Pearl Jam was the only band playing that night at Lollapalooza. There's no way to really tell how many people were there, but anyone still at Lolla that night was at Pearl Jam or going home. The 60,000 figure above seems low though... I wonder if that is just one-day tickets available not counting 3-day passes sold. If Radiohead sold more tickets, there must have been a lot of disappointed people that night. Their set sucked and I've never been in a crowd less interested in what was going on onstage. Pearl Jam seemed to have every person there in the palm of their hand.
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  • DP13
    DP13 Posts: 282
    Both were in Chicago:

    Lolla: 100,000
    Soldier Field: 55,000
  • ||Release_Me||
    ||Release_Me|| Posts: 1,871
    Lolla probably takes the crown seeing as nobody else was playing by then and so many people stayed to watch Pearl Jam.

    Nijmegen was the biggest PJ show that I've been part of; 40,000 sounds about right. I was about 6 rows back and looking behind me was scary.
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  • vedder_soup
    vedder_soup Posts: 5,861
    ||Release_Me|| wrote:
    Lolla probably takes the crown seeing as nobody else was playing by then and so many people stayed to watch Pearl Jam.

    Nijmegen was the biggest PJ show that I've been part of; 40,000 sounds about right. I was about 6 rows back and looking behind me was scary.

    Nijmegen was a big crowd but a friendly crowd, i was 2nd row and it was not rough at all and only very occasionally was it even pushy
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  • UKpearljammer
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    unifiedscene wrote:
    Pearl Jam was the only band playing that night at Lollapalooza. There's no way to really tell how many people were there, but anyone still at Lolla that night was at Pearl Jam or going home. The 60,000 figure above seems low though... I wonder if that is just one-day tickets available not counting 3-day passes sold. If Radiohead sold more tickets, there must have been a lot of disappointed people that night. Their set sucked and I've never been in a crowd less interested in what was going on onstage. Pearl Jam seemed to have every person there in the palm of their hand.


    60,000 does seem low, though it's from Billboard who provide the most official stats for the concert industry, supplied by the venue/promotor/band. I guess we'll never know as all the eye witness accounts pretty much double it. As for other festivals and multiple stages, I think at least for the last hour at Reading/leeds the only stages open are the main stage and the 2nd stage (tent) which holds about 5,000, again of course you'll never get 100% acurate stats on how many attended Pearl Jam or whoever.
    My PJ shows:
    London 28/10/96, Las Vegas 11/7/98, London 29/5/00, Nurnburg 11/6/00, Prague 14/6/00, Salzburg 18/6/00, Verona 20/6/00, Milan 22/6/00, Zurich 23/6/00, New York 8-9/7/03, Boston 11/7/03, Reading Festival 27/8/06, Shepards Bush 11/8/09, Berlin 15/8/09, Manchester 17/8/09, London 18/8/09, Dublin 22/6/10, Belfast 23/6/10, London (HRC) 25/6/10, Alpine Valley (PJ20) 3-4/9/11, Manchester 20-21/6/12, Leeds 8/7/14, Milton Keynes 11/7/14 To be continued....
  • Haijay
    Haijay Posts: 456
    someone posted a day or two after the concert saying they talked to some cops that night and they said they figured it was 115,000 to 125,000 in grant park
  • guacamolejoe
    guacamolejoe Posts: 2,396
    vedder_soup wrote:
    Nijmegen was a big crowd but a friendly crowd, i was 2nd row and it was not rough at all and only very occasionally was it even pushy

    What a beautiful peaceful evening. I was able to get a wristband for the pit but it was too crowded for my wife so we backed just out of the protected barrier fence. The next night at the Werchter festival was a much bigger crowd, estimated # 60,000+
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  • prsntnse
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    guacamolejoe wrote:
    What a beautiful peaceful evening. I was able to get a wristband for the pit but it was too crowded for my wife so we backed just out of the protected barrier fence. The next night at the Werchter festival was a much bigger crowd, estimated # 60,000+


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