We know that it will never be the same to check out the concert of your favorite band or artist on television, but sometimes there is no other option and you have to put up with it. And wow, in the United Kingdom they made it clear to us that the distance doesn’t matter, what counts is seeing that musician who moves you, well Elton John’s show at Glastonbury 2023 broke a record that will probably blow your mind.
As you will remember, this past weekend from June 21 to 25, this music festival took place, one of the largest and most important in the world. Over three days, thousands of people had the chance to check out great artists like Foo Fighters, Arctic Monkeys, Lana Del Rey, Guns N’ Roses and more; however, it became clear to us that the vast majority, including rockers, rappers and poppers, wanted to see the presentation of the enormous Elton John.
The number of people who saw Elton John’s show at Glastonbury 2023
To give you an idea of what we are doing, It’s not even a week old and Elton John’s show at Glastonbury 2023 has already become one of the most legendary of all time. And it is that both the people who started to check out the presentation live and in full color, as well as those who followed it at home through television and the Internet broke figures and records.
According to the Deadline, More than 7 million people followed the British singer’s show at the festival from a distance, in what could be their last concert in the UK. The same source points out that this figure is crazy, because it was almost triple the number of viewers who connected from their homes to see the presentation of Paul McCartney himself in 2022. However, things do not stop there.
Elton John broke it at Glastonbury live and remotely
According to the nights.tv site, lElton John’s three-hour performance drew close to 50% audience share and it becomes one of the most watched television programs of the year so far in England, surpassing series like Happy Valley. And yes, as you can see, it was by far the most watched Glastonbury set of this year.
Needless to say that Elton John’s show in this edition of Glastonbury also swept the other headlinersas it surpassed Guns ‘N’ Roses –headliners of the second day–, which gathered just over 1 million viewers online, while The presentation of the Arctic Monkeys last Friday, June 23, was seen by 5 million people in their homes.
And how did Elton John do live? Well, he also broke it live at the Pyramid Stage. For them to check how things were, His three-hour presentation where he reviewed most of his hits and which had guests such as Brandon Flowers from The Killers, was seen by nearly 200,000 attendees, according to the first reports. This would surpass the 100 thousand people that Dolly Parton gathered in 2010, making it one of the most viewed of all time.
