Girl Gaga simply unlocked one other outstanding achievement in a profession filled with them. The pop star’s efficiency Saturday in Brazil set a report for the very best attendance ever at a live performance by a feminine artist.
When Gaga carried out Saturday at Copacabana Seaside in Rio de Janeiro, greater than 2.5 million folks have been in attendance. The determine was massive sufficient to surpass the earlier report for best-attended live performance by a lady, which was set by Madonna on the identical venue in Might 2024.
Gaga’s “Mayhem on the Beach” live performance continued a latest run of high-profile engagements for the multi-hyphenate star. She headlined Coachella final month with an elaborate five-act stage present that received acclaim as one of many best within the pageant’s historical past. She additionally performed a sequence of sold-out stadium exhibits in Mexico Metropolis and appeared at main US occasions together with the SNL50 live performance in New York and the FireAid profit live performance in Los Angeles.
The flurry of exercise in latest months has centered on Mayhem, Gaga’s return to full-throttle pop music after her newest dalliance with jazz and showtunes on final 12 months’s Harlequin. Mayhem contains “Die With A Smile,” her duet with fellow crowd-pleaser Bruno Mars that spent 5 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Scorching 100 this 12 months. The tune received Greatest Pop Duo/Group Efficiency at this 12 months’s Grammy Awards, the place Gaga and Mars have been available to carry out a stripped-down association of the tune.
Later this month, Gaga will headline a trio of exhibits at Singapore’s Nationwide Stadium, adopted by this summer season’s launch of her Mayhem Ball Tour in arenas throughout North America and Europe.
“This is my first arena tour since 2018,” she stated upon the announcement of the tour. “There’s something electric about a stadium, and I love every moment of those shows. But with the Mayhem Ball, I wanted to create a different kind of experience — something more intimate — closer, more connected — that lends itself to the live theatrical art I love to create.”
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