Croatian singer set to break record for most tickets sold for a single concert in history

A singer from Croatia is on track to break the record for the most tickets ever sold to a single concert.

The artist is a singer called Marko Perković, who shares music under the alias Thompson. He is set to take to the stage in Zagreb later this summer and perform at the city’s Hippodrome venue on July 5.

According to new reports, the show at the horse racing track has already sold an impressive 281,774 tickets, and the site will span over 47 hectares.

Tickets for the one-off show first went on sale on Friday (March 28), and outlets including IQ and Far Out have claimed that the event saw over 130,000 tickets sold within the first six hours alone.

At time of writing, it looks likely that the show will soon become the biggest show at the Croatian venue, and the highest-attended single show on record.

This means it will beat the previous record set by rock veterans The Rolling Stones, who played at the Zagreb Hippodrome back in 1998 as part of their ‘Bridges To Babylon’ tour and drew in over 80,000 fans.

For the latter, and more significant victory, it means Thompson will surpass Italian musician Vasco Rossi as the artist to have the most attended ticketed concert in the world. Rossi’s record was set in 2017, when he performed in front of 225,173 fans at his concert at the Enzo Ferrari Park in Modena.

In a new statement, the company behind the tickets sold, Entrio, claimed to be “extremely proud” that it was able to efficiently and effectively handle “one of the most complex ticket sales for a single concert in the world.”

It continued, saying that the engineering team worked for “almost 30 hours straight” during the rush for fans to buy tickets.

At time of writing, the artist is reportedly in talks to hold a second show in the city due to the huge demand, although details about this are set to be shared at a later date if it materialises.

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