Jean-Michel Jarre – Moscow, August 1997

Jean-Michel Jarre, a pioneer of electronic music, broke another concert record when he performed in front of 3.5 million people in Moscow. This event, part of the city's 850th anniversary celebrations in August, combined powerful soundscapes with lights, lasers, and pyrotechnics, making it one of the most visually and sonically ambitious concerts of all time.

The crowd in Moscow made it clear: Jarre was not just a performer; he was a master of mega-format musical events. This performance remains an absolute highlight in the artist's touring history and cemented his status as an enduring concert legend.

Jean-Michel Jarre – Paris La Défense, July 1990

In July 1990, Jean-Michel Jarre played to 2.5 million people in Paris. This free concert at La Défense was a multimedia masterpiece. The venue, surrounded by skyscrapers, became a canvas for projections, fireworks, and futuristic light shows, blending technology and music in a way only Jarre can.

With this concert, Jean-Michel Jarre once again proved why he is at the top of the list of artists for large-scale live performances. The sheer number of attendees, the innovation, and the spectacle made this event one of the most talked-about concerts in music history.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Michel_Jarre

 

Just checked in G earth, from the picture in above posts I estimated in the most generous case 300 000 sqm (but it's less, probably 230k!), and because even in the most dense concert you have 3-4 ppl/sqm, you just can't go over 1000 000 ppl. I would stay more around 800-700k as you wrote.
This is something anyone can verify, but of course not paid press sent there.

 

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This was also wild. Don't know how many people, but clearly above two thousand or so...

 

i thought we all know that we're still living in a lying era... still in the matrix...

 

Trump approves

 

Yesterday I did an open mic (my song was "Feeling Yourself Disintegrate" by The Flaming Lips). There were 25 million people. I fucked nearly half of them. I fucked them so good they each gave me a hundred thousand billion dollars.

 

For a moment there I thought you were gonna say "a hundred thousand billion babies"

 

When the concert finishes, you just run 12 kilometres to the end of the line and you can enjoy it all over again.

 

None of these figures are accurate. Wikipedia cites the Guinness Book of World Records, which cites Russian state media (not always the most reliable barometer of facts and truth), but does not verify the statements. The Book of World Records says specifically "claimed" - as opposed to verified or certified.

As for JM Jarre playing to 2.5M people in Paris, let the record show your honor that in 1990, the entire population of Paris was 2,150,147. Anyone who's ever taken the subway in Paris can attest it's impossible to transport the entire population of Paris, plus another 350,000 to a concert.

But never mind those discrepancies, or France's own state bureau of statistics (link in blue above), how about total active military personnel for comparison?

As one can see below, the entire active military of China is (officially) about 2M people. India's is about 1.5M. The entire military of the two most populous countries in the world - spread all over the territories of said countries. That's what 1M (half of China's), or 3M (twice India's) numbers are in reality.

Hopefully, we can all stop believing press releases, written by people whose job is to tell stories so disconnected from reality that you forget about said reality - for the benefit of their client(s).

No statement should be taken at face value without running through the critical thinking part of your mind. It's okay to believe your parents when you're a baby, toddler, even a tender age child - our brain is not fully developed then (not until 25, incidentally), and we have the utmost trust and faith in the words and actions of our caretakers... to a fault.

Being an adult means you get to think for yourself, and thinking for yourself means you don't let others fabricate thoughts for you.

Food for thought.

 

The population of a city is calculated by the people who are residents (registered). It does not say anything about the people who commute to work or turists...(Amsterdam!!!)

People come from all over places to see their idol. From other cities and countries too, not only Paris. Some of them come one or two days before the concert and some, are in place overnight just to get a better place... some of them walk or take a bus, some of them don't even see the concert, but come just for the party itself.

The infrastructure for these kind of events does not take place overnight, it takes planning and time (days) to put them in place. They don't open the gates 2 hs before the concert starts...

Have you added these factors to your calculations?

Ok, so why should I believe you? Do you have a better or a more reliable source? Or it is just your opinion?

Have you ever been to Paris... and took the subway...or the bus?

 

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