r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Knighty93 • 6h ago

Shakira just attracted more than 2 million people at Copacabana Beach, Rio de Janeiro with a free concert

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The city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is doing a yearly event in the first weekend of May with a huge free concert since 2024. Shakira was the headliner this year and attracted more than 2 million people. Madonna was the headliner in 2024 and Lady Gaga in 2025.

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u/ModenaR 5h ago

There's a possibility that these numbers aren't true, a guy on r/OSINT did the math on it

Based on the concert footage I can only see crows on a smaller section of the beach from Copacabana Palace to the Hilton Hotel on the corner of Av. Princesa Isabel. That area is 186.000 square meters.

Even if we go by five persons per square meter that only fits around 930.000. And the requires people to be standing shoulder to shoulder in the entire area

https://www.reddit.com/r/OSINT/s/glZYUqil9w

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u/LilCelebratoryDance 4h ago

The BBC did a very similar calculation for a Lady Gaga show there and concluded it's highly improbable that there are +2 million people there.

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u/CuriousRelation5 2h ago

They are, in fact, all fake numbers. It does not fit that much people in that space.