George Strait had never been to Kyle Field until Saturday night. The King of country music wasn’t there for a long time, but brought a good time to Aggieland and broke a national attendance record for a ticketed concert. Out of the clear blue sky came a warm and breezy Texas summer night as 110,905 people packed Kyle Field for a never-before-seen show at Texas A&M’s cathedral of a stadium.
The show broke a 47-year-old record for highest-attended ticketed concert in United States history, which was previously held by The Grateful Dead who drew 107,019 people to a New Jersey show in 1977. Saturday’s concert was also the largest-attended event in Kyle Field’s history, surpassing the 2014 A&M football game against Ole Miss that drew 110,633 fans. Kyle Field’s official capacity is 102,733, but thousands of floor seats and standing-room-only sections allowed for the event to surpass the stadium’s official capacity.
The George Strait concert at Kyle Field on Saturday night set an unofficial US concert attendance record with an announced crowd of 110,905. The previous record was 107,000-plus for a 1977 Grateful Dead show. George Strait smiles in front of 110,905 fans at Kyle Field on Saturday night.
The concert set a U.S. attendance record.
Strait’s son, Bubba, who went to A&M, gave his father permission to “whoop.” He joked onstage that he was scared to play in front of such a large crowd. “It’s amazing,” Strait said.
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