Woman Gaga now holds the file for the highest-attended live performance by a feminine artist after drawing over 2 million folks to a free present at Rio De Janiero’s Copacabana Seaside on Saturday (Could 3). Selling her new album Mayhem, she beat the file beforehand held by Madonna’s Celebration Tour cease on the identical location precisely one yr in the past at the moment, which had a crowd of 1,600,000. (Rod Stewart’s 1994 New Yr’s Eve present, additionally held at Copacabana Seaside, stays the highest-attended live performance in historical past. That have to be an enormous seashore.)
However apparently, Gaga’s record-breaking present nearly had a really completely different final result, as Brazilian police say that they thwarted deliberate a bomb assault earlier than the live performance. Reuters studies that an unnamed group “had been recruiting individuals, together with minors, to hold out coordinated assaults utilizing improvised explosives and Molotov cocktails.” The members of that group recognized themselves as Woman Gaga followers. Rio state police arrested a suspect who’s believed to be the group’s chief within the southern state of Rio Grande Do Sul for unlawful possession of a firearm. A teen in Rio de Janeiro was additionally detained for possession of kid pornography.
Fortunately, it appears to be like like every thing went in keeping with plan on Gaga’s facet. See an aerial view of the Copacabana Seaside present beneath.
@skynews Woman Gaga carried out in entrance of an estimated 2.1 million folks at a free present on Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana Seaside, with round 500,000 vacationers travelling to observe the live performance. #ladygaga #riodejaneiro #copacabanabeach ♬ unique sound – Sky Information
