Current Events > Garth Brooks sets Ford Field concert record with 70k+ tickets sold in 90 minutes

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https://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/music/brian-mccollum/2019/11/22/garth-brooks-ford-field-attendance-record/4271616002/

Fans gobbled up Garth Brooks tickets in about 90 minutes Friday morning and gave the country star a Ford Field record in the process.

More than 70,000 concertgoers will be on hand for the Feb. 22 show, Brooks' publicist announced this afternoon. It's an all-time mark for a single concert at the Detroit Lions' stadium.

Brooks is aided by his in-the-round configuration, which will position his stage at center field rather than at one end of the stadium, as with most Ford Field concerts. That means additional floor seating and sightlines around the venue.

The typical maximum attendance for sold-out Ford Field shows is about 50,000.

Standard football capacity is about 65,000, which can be expanded by several thousand when needed as with the 2006 Super Bowl.

Ford Field's attendance record for any single event stands at 80,103, for Wrestlemania 23 in 2007, a venue representative confirmed.

Other heavyweight performers in Ford Field's 17-year history have included the Rolling Stones, Eminem, U2, Beyonce, Taylor Swift and Bon Jovi.

Brooks' tickets went on sale at 10 a.m. Friday. The February Ford Field show is his first Detroit performance since 2015, when he played six sold-out nights at Joe Louis Arena. He was back in Michigan a year later, doing another six sellouts at Grand Rapids' Van Andel Arena.
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Was semi-interested in going but decided not to. Luckily my bro/sis-in-law got tickets so good for them
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Crazy. I'm not a country fan but working with Garth Brooks for the short period that I had with him was awesome. He's a cool dude despite all of the murders.
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