For this list, we’ll use ticketed concerts that featured one artist as the headlining act. It was the first time a major sports area was used as a music venue and the 55,000 tickets sold out in seventeen minutes. The Stones also played the Dome in '78 (with 80,173 in attendance… Signs posted on the windows of the Mercedes-Benz Superdome box office announced that tickets to Sunday night’s show were completely sold out – one of few sell-outs in the Essence Fest’s 19 year history. Clearly, Beyoncé drove those sales. The event, Monsters of Rock, is one of the highest-attendance music concerts in history which was held in Moscow, where 1.6 million people attended. The Rolling Stones still hold the attendance record for a Superdome concert. Beyoncé breaks Superdome attendance record at the 2013 Essence Festival. Officially, the opening concert of The Beatles 1965 US tour at Shea Stadium, New York was the largest they ever did. The Biggest Concert In Capacity of Tickets Sold: Note: The Number of Tickets sold is not the number of overall venue capacity. Janet Jackson made headlines when she […] Kjeanah Watkins, of Rapid City, S.D., 17, posed for a photo before Wednesday night’s Beyoncé and Jay-Z concert at U.S. Bank Stadium. ] Beyonce ’s Formation World Tour has so far grossed $123 million, through the end of the trek’s first leg, based on box office counts submitted during the past week by concert … As William Congreve once wrote: "Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak." Woodstock - Top 10 biggest concerts. The Philippines This was not, however, the biggest crowd The Beatles performed in front of. NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC, 1986 800,000 The people of New York celebrated the Statue of Liberty Weekend and the New York Philharmonic played under the direction of Zubin Mehta. They flashed up on the sign that the concert had set a record for the largest indoor concert ever held." Beyoncé's Formation tour this year has posted even better attendance numbers, boasting averages of 45,423 per show and peaking at over 75,000 people at a Paris concert… From rock, to pop, to country, here are nine of the biggest concerts in American history. After what happened at the Fyre Festival, there’s been a lot of talk about how it ended up becoming one of the worst concerts of all time.Typically, concert producers can avoid most disasters through the proper application of logistics (learn more about that here).But the producers at Fyre Fest managed to screw everything up without the help of any drunken rockstars.