Nation music’s growth yr racked up one other milestone after singer George Strait set a brand new document for attendance at a ticketed live performance within the U.S. on Saturday.

Strait drew 110,905 followers to Kyle Discipline at Texas A&M in Faculty Station, which in keeping with Billboard bested the beforehand acknowledged document of 107,019 followers who caught the Grateful Useless’s 1977 present at Raceway Park in New Jersey. This document doesn’t embody festivals reminiscent of Coachella and Electrical Daisy Carnival, which routinely draw larger crowds.

The attendance document provides to probably the most illustrious careers in nation music. Strait, famend for his neo-traditionalist sound that stood out from the country-pop crossover hits of the ‘80s and ‘90s, has earned 27 No. 1 nation albums and 44 No. 1 nation singles. Strait has a brand new album, “Cowboys And Dreamers,” due out Sept. 6.

Strait’s document comes throughout a gold-rush period for nation music, as Morgan Wallen’s “Final Evening” topped streaming charts in 2023 and led Stagecoach to an prompt sellout in April, whereas pop acts like Beyoncé and Submit Malone have labored within the style to search out new, influential inventive peaks.

Strait nonetheless has a strategy to go to catch the document of most-attended live performance of all time, although. In Could, Madonna drew 1.6 million followers to Copacabana seaside in Rio de Janeiro for a free present to wrap up her “Celebration” tour.