The beach is visited by thousands of people at any part of the day but the largest gathering on one of the biggest beaches in the world happened during the rod stewart concert on new year s eve in 1994.
Rod stewart concert 3 5 million.
More recently the beach has been a site for huge free concerts unrelated to the year end festivities.
The only other concert that has passed the three million attendee mark was rod stewart s free concert held at the copacabana beach during the 1994 new year s eve celebration.
Rod stewart later said.
Just like with jean michael jarre s concert in moscow the official reports say that there were 3 5 million people.
City authorities and both major sunday dailies estimated the crowd at 3 5 million.
Both jean michel jarre s concert in moscow 1997 and rod stewart s concert in copacabana 1994 have been reported to attract audiences of more than 3 5 million people.
On december 31 1994 the new year s eve celebrations featured a rod stewart concert with an attendance of 3 5 million making it the largest concert crowd ever.
The guinness world records site credits the largest live concert to rod stewart who drew 3 5 million for a new year s eve 1994 performance at copacabana beach rio de janeiro brazil.
He gained recognition for not only putting on the largest live concert but also for the largest free rock concert of all time.
Rod stewart s free new year s concert at copacabana beach may have set an attendance record for an open air concert.
Instead of getting married again i m going to find a woman i don t like and just give her a house on 31 december 1994 stewart played in front of 3 5 million people on copacabana beach in rio and made it into the guinness book of world records for staging the largest free rock concert attendance in history.
1st john 5 19 and we know that we are of god and the whole world lieth in wickedness.
Rod stewart treated the crowd to a setlist of favorites with an exciting encore.
Rod stewart people get ready.