The King of Country played to 110,905 people in College Station, Texas, on Saturday.
George Strait is no stranger to big crowds, but the 72-year-old country legend had never played an event like Saturday’s — no one has.
The country music icon set the record for largest ticketed concert in U.S. history when he packed Kyle Field at Texas A&M University, drawing 110,905 fans to College Station, Texas. The Texas native broke the Grateful Dead’s long-standing record. The rock band had set the previous record when 107,019 fans went to a 1977 concert at Raceway Park in New Jersey, according toThe Strait concert also set a new attendance record for Kyle Field, the largest stadium in Texas with a seating capacity of 102,733. Strait broke the record set there in 2014, when 110,633 fansThis isn’t the first time Strait has set an attendance record in the Lone Star State.
Strait has put together a singular career in country music in the decades since his 1981 debut. According to his, he has more than 60 No. 1 singles and 33 platinum selling albums. He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2006.for the rest of the year, playing in Salt Lake City, Detroit and Chicago later this summer before a date in Las Vegas in December. He also has a new album.
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