The Top 12 Most Attended Concerts in History at Mexico City’s Iconic Zócalo

The legendary Mexican-American band captivated Mexico City’s Zócalo on the night of September 15, 2022, in a massive concert for Mexico’s Independence Day, bringing together 140,000 attendees.

On April 20 of last year, the New York band held the largest concert of their career, according to the group’s social media accounts, bringing together 160,000 people.

On April 28, 2023, the Spanish superstar closed the North American leg of her Motomami tour with a free concert in Mexico City’s Zócalo, where she gathered 160,000 people, the largest show of her career to date, according to the singer.

The popular Mexican rock quartet made history by becoming the first artist or group to draw a crowd of 170,000 people to the city’s Primer Cuadro on June 4, 2005. But it wasn’t all fun and games: during the show, more than 200 people were injured, authorities reported at the time.

The former member of Calle 13 brought his combative rhymes and messages of Latin American pride and resistance in support of Palestine to the Zócalo on September 6 before an audience of 180,000 people.

The former Pink Floyd member gave one of the most memorable free concerts ever held in the Zócalo, when on October 1, 2016, he drew a crowd of around 200,000 people to the square.

The Colombian superstar snatched the attendance record in the Zócalo from Café Tacvba by gathering 210,000 attendees on May 27, 2007, surpassing the 170,000 people that the Mexican group drew in 2005.

The Canadian idol drew a crowd of 215,000 people to his concert in the heart of the Mexican capital on June 11, 2012.

It was his first time at the Zócalo, and the great Chente made the most of it: he sang for three hours to 219,000 people gathered on February 14, 2009, and in doing so became the artist who had drawn the largest crowd to date.

The concert that the former Beatle gave on May 10, 2012, in the city’s Historic Center surpassed his equally legendary concert in Moscow’s Red Square in 2003 — which was also free and drew a crowd of 100,000 — by bringing together 230,000 fans in Mexico.

The superstars of regional Mexican music were the first artists to break the attendance record at the Zócalo when they drew a crowd of 280,000 people on September 25, 2022.

The Argentine rock band achieved a milestone on June 3, 2023, by becoming the artist or group that has drawn the largest crowd to the Plaza de la Constitución, with a record 300,000 people. It surpassed the record set by Grupo Firme, which drew 280,000 people a year earlier.