What was the largest crowd Prince performed at for a PRINCE concert... Not including music festivals and opening for the Stones or the Rock in Rio festival which was over 100,000 people...

Was it in 1985 the superdome 90,000 people during the Purple Rain tour?

[Edited 5/29/17 14:57pm]

Rock in Rio???

I thought Rock In Rio, too. Those crowds are just massive. I doubt Coachella or North Sea would be up to those numbers, but I do think a festival might be in the running, opposed to any stadium.

God, the energy that a performer, whether a keyboard player or the guy out front, must feel when standing in front of 50,000 people all clapping and yelling your name. It'd knock me over.

macaylasdad said:

Rock in Rio???

Yes it is rock in rio... But im talking about just for a PRINCE world tour concert, not counting rock in rio or other festivals...

TrivialPursuit said:

I thought Rock In Rio, too. Those crowds are just massive. I doubt Coachella or North Sea would be up to those numbers, but I do think a festival might be in the running, opposed to any stadium.

God, the energy that a performer, whether a keyboard player or the guy out front, must feel when standing in front of 50,000 people all clapping and yelling your name. It'd knock me over.

yay Trivs! we agree on something!

Super Bowl halftime performance?

Ok Ill ask again...

What is the largest crowd for a PRINCE TOUR CONCERT... Not including other performances such as Rock In Rio, and other music festivals such as superbowl and others...

The superdome concert which I attended was a sellout at 60,000. Interestingly, the infamous gigs with the Rolling Stones at The Coliseum supposedly were sellouts, which probably means that there were 90,000, so that is the biggest that I know of.

feeluupp said:

TrivialPursuit said:

NorthC said:

North Sea Jazz was in the Ahoy hall in Rotterdam, which holds around 10,000 people.

AHH ok. Makes sense. But on video sometimes it just seems huge.

macaylasdad said:

Rock in Rio???

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I was also thinking it could be this.

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A-ha hold the record for the largest outside crowd from their appearence at Rock In Rio.

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To the OP, if you really wanted to know, you might have to dig. I'm not sure what sort of information holds for concerts, but Wikipedia might be a help. It often holds venue sales, and gross revenue.

OperatingThetan said:

Wembley Stadium in '93 was the largest crowd I witnessed him perform to. Around 80,000 I think. Was also my first Prince concert.

My first Prince show too. I was 13. What a day... it was about 80k. Wembley then had a 75k capacity for sport, add the crowd on the pitch made it about 80k.

jodznsez said:

macaylasdad said:

OperatingThetan said:

jodznsez said:

My first Prince show too. I was 13. What a day... it was about 80k. Wembley then had a 75k capacity for sport, add the crowd on the pitch made it about 80k.

A beautiful night. I was 16. 80,000 people singing Sexy MF was quite a trip... [Edited 5/30/17 16:25pm]

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For some reason I remember being told it was 103,000, but maybe someone just exagerated, or maybe I've add 1000 to the attendance each year I tell the story. In any case, I will say that to this day I get chills thinking about that concert. Standing behind the big black curtain, waiting for the show to start, then the four "clank" count-off to "My Name is Prince". The curtain drops on the downbeat, and I see this massive crowd, which immediately erupts. The opening had the band playing a basic Bb walkup in unison. It was probably the simplist thing I had to play all night, and I went completely blank. I just stood there like a deer caught in the headlights as the open riff went by. I regrouped quickly and it was back to funk business as usual, but that's one of the shows I will never forget.

-MBN

Wembley Stadium capacity in 1993 (and from 1984 until 2002) was 72,000. It was reduced from 80,000 for safety reasons.

Still 2,000 more than Syarcuse. There might have been a bigger stadium on the Purple Rain Tour, but I don't know US stadium capacity. Anyone?

OperatingThetan said:

jodznsez said:

My first Prince show too. I was 13. What a day... it was about 80k. Wembley then had a 75k capacity for sport, add the crowd on the pitch made it about 80k.

A beautiful night. I was 16. 80,000 people singing Sexy MF was quite a trip... [Edited 5/30/17 16:25pm]

Not so good memories for me. I paid an absolute fortune for VIP and got put in a corporate box with a load of stuffy executives who hardly knew who Prince was. The box seemed like a million miles away from the stage. God knows what the suits must have thought of me jumping and dancing around, singing at the top of my voice. Wish I'd just had standing tickets.

Wembley Stadium in '93

Great night... met a girl in the que exchanged numbers and we have been married 18 years !!

MrMoops said:

OperatingThetan said:

jodznsez said: A beautiful night. I was 16. 80,000 people singing Sexy MF was quite a trip... [Edited 5/30/17 16:25pm]

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For some reason I remember being told it was 103,000, but maybe someone just exagerated, or maybe I've add 1000 to the attendance each year I tell the story. In any case, I will say that to this day I get chills thinking about that concert. Standing behind the big black curtain, waiting for the show to start, then the four "clank" count-off to "My Name is Prince". The curtain drops on the downbeat, and I see this massive crowd, which immediately erupts. The opening had the band playing a basic Bb walkup in unison. It was probably the simplist thing I had to play all night, and I went completely blank. I just stood there like a deer caught in the headlights as the open riff went by. I regrouped quickly and it was back to funk business as usual, but that's one of the shows I will never forget.

-MBN

Awesome.

Hope you didnt get docked for missing your cue at the start.

feeluupp said:

dodger said:

The SUPERBOWL !

feeluupp said:

Ok Ill ask again...

Oh you could ask and ask and ask, the dumb would still post what you didn't ask about.

iZsaZsa said:

Attendance/Capacity I think the number will be at the bottom of each page. I'm not going to do it so you'll have to click all of those to find the biggest.

Thanks... But I already checked... Most don't have the actual capacity for that concert, just a generalized capacity for the venue, which a lot don't even exist anymore.

Poland 2011 - 85.000

Not sure but I'd guess that the largest would be either a music festival, opening for the Stones or the Rock in Rio festival.