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A Croatian singer is set to break the record for the most number of tickets sold to a single concert in music history, as he takes to the stage in Zagreb this summer.
Marko Perković, who releases music as Thompson, plans to put on a show for the record books on July 5th at the Zagreb Hippodrome. 281,774 tickets have already been sold for his gig at the horse racing track in the Croatian capital, which spans a massive 47 hectares.
Tickets for the show completely sold out within the first day of being on sale, when they went live on March 28th, with 130,000 already being snapped up within the first six hours, according to IQ.
The company responsible for selling the tickets, Entrio, said it was “extremely proud” of its team for “handling one of the most complex ticket sales for a single concert in the world.”
It added: “The Entrio engineering team worked for almost 30 hours straight, during an unprecedented rush of fans to buy tickets, to optimise the server infrastructure, solve a number of technical challenges, maximise sales, eliminate three powerful hacker attacks and ensure that hundreds of other events that we simultaneously sold in three markets were running successfully.”
Thompson’s show is set to surpass the venue’s current highest-attended record, set by The Rolling Stones, as 80,000 fans previously attended the British rock band’s show there on their Bridges to Babylon tour in 1998.
Additionally, it will also beat out the record for the most attended ticketed concert in the world by a sizeable margin, after the Italian musician Vasco Rossi sold 225,173 tickets for his concert in Modena at the Enzo Ferrari Park in 2017.
Thompson and his team are reportedly in talks with officials in Zagreb about holding a second concert at the venue the following night, in order to meet seismic demand.