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Kanye West broke his own record this past Saturday as his show at Dallas’ AT&T Stadium became the most-attended hip-hop concert in U.S. history, with 83,132 fans, and the fifth-highest-grossing concert in U.S. history, with more
than $18 million in reported gross revenue generated in a single night, according to his rep.
It is the third time this year that West, who has legally changed his name to Ye, has broken his own record: His concert at Houston’s Reliant Stadium on Halloween night brought in around 80,210 fans, and his two April shows at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles, which saw him sell over 74,000 tickets on each of its two nights.
The concerts have continued Ye’s long history of dazzling spectacle: The setlist is filled with hits from his golden era, he’s brought out many guests, and he performs atop a stunning half-orb illuminated to look like the Earth, a progression from earlier sets that saw him performing atop a fake mountain, or on a moving stage suspended from arena ceilings. Read Variety’s review of Ye’s first Los Angeles concert here.
The SoFi concerts were Ye’s first in the U.S. since 2021, as his shocking antisemitic comments and posts over the last few years alienated many fans and especially business partners. He apologized for those comments in January, via a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal asking for forgiveness and attributing his behavior — which included baldly declaring “I am a Nazi” and releasing the single “Heil Hitler” — to his bipolar type-1 diagnosis, which prompted a “four-month-long manic episode of psychotic, paranoid and impulsive behavior that destroyed my life.”
While many people have not accepted or believed his apologies, clearly many thousands of fans have forgiven him. By contast, the most-attended of Jay-Z’s three July concerts at New York’s Yankee Stadium was just under 46,000.
Significantly, Ye’s concerts are independently promoted, without a major partner like Live Nation or AEG Presents.
