On Saturday, May 3, Lady Gaga held a highly anticipated concert on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, breaking the record for the most-attended live show by a female artist in history, with a whopping 2.1 million people watching her performance. She dedicated this important moment in her career to the LGBTQ+ community.

Local authorities in Rio de Janeiro, along with the event organizers, officially confirmed that the "The Mayhem Ball" performance in Copacabana gathered 2.1 million attendees, surpassing any previous record.

The grand concert in Copacabana followed her stunning performances at Coachella 2025 and a successful show in Mexico City. The concert was highly anticipated by her ardent Brazilian fans, who had last seen the singer live 13 years ago, during her "The Born This Way Ball" tour in 2012.

The incredible energy of over 2 million people singing, dancing, and cheering every word of her songs made Gaga, her band, and the dancers emotional at several moments of the performance.

According to reports from Brazilian media outlet G1, 2.1 million people attended the concert, while 500,000 tourists had arrived in Rio since May 1st just to watch the show. The same outlet noted that this concert surpassed even Madonna's concert last year, which gathered 1.6 million fans and was organized by the same team in the same location.

In front of this historic crowd, Gaga paid tribute to Brazilian culture, appearing in the colors of the Brazilian flag, and thanked her fans in the LGBTQ+ community who, as she said, had never left her feeling alone.

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