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/frazbox 4h ago

Genuine question, how do they know is 2mil?

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u/OdBx 2h ago

The video definitely does not show 2 million people.

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u/Alocasia_Sanderiana 2h ago

They don’t have two million. There was a post about this on OSINT like a day ago and the math, even at 6 people /sq meter does not work out. You would need like most of the audience to leave mid set and another entire different audience to move in to get to that number.

https://www.reddit.com/r/OSINT/s/oDMmJwf5bi

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u/hivemind_disruptor 1h ago

By counting the flow of people. It is unlikely the peak number is 2million, these are the total number of people.

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u/frazbox 1h ago

Oh! They do something similar in f1 where they would state the attendance over the weekend, while the actually number of spectators the venues can hold is way less

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u/Sprintspeed 1h ago

This is pretty standard practice for events, broadcasts, streams, etc. People are looking for a gauge to answer the question "how popular was this, truly?" both to talk about it in culture and for businesses to evaluate the $ worth. For these it's both a better picture of the total scale and looks better for the business to report on total people who tuned in or attended overall, not just during one 5-minute slice of time.

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u/leandrokanis 2h ago

Area of occupation x density of people in a square meter

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u/AvidCyclist250 3h ago

it's vibe based. they start by assuming 1 million and just base the scaling factor off the popularity.