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U2 HAS BROKEN ITS OWN SINGLE-SHOW ATTENDANCE RECORD:

Last Sunday night, a record-setting 97,014 people were at a U2 show at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. It was the best-attended single concert performance at a U.S. venue by one headliner.

--But the audience was even bigger than that, because that was also the show that was streamed live, around the world, on YouTube. (--The video is still up. It includes crowd shots, so hit it up if you want to see what over 97,000 U2 fans looks like.)

http://www.youtube.com/u2official

--The previous single-show attendance record was also set by U2. Back in 1987, over 86,000 fans watched them at the old JFK Stadium in Philadelphia. Here are the Top Five single-show attendance marks:

#1.) U2, 97,014 people at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California (October 2009)

#2.) U2, 86,145 people at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia (September 1987)

#3.) U2, 84.754 people at FedEx Field in Landover, Maryland (September 2009)

#4.) PINK FLOYD, 75,250 people at Ohio Stadium in Columbus (May 1994)

#5.) BACKSTREET BOYS, 73,337 people at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta (February 2000)

--U2's Pasadena concert grossed just under $10 million, which made it the second highest-grossing U.S. concert by a solo headliner. A sold out THREE TENORS show at Giants Stadium in New Jersey, in July of 1996, grossed $13.4 million.