Ultimo is about to overtake Vasco Rossi: here are the best-attended concerts ever in Italy

On Saturday, July 4, Ultimo is set to establish a historic record for live music in Italy. The Roman singer-songwriter's concert scheduled at Tor Vergata, in Rome, is expected to draw around 250,000 paying spectators, making it the event with the highest number of tickets sold in the country and surpassing the record set by Vasco Rossi with Modena Park in 2017.
On the eve of the show, the Roman singer-songwriter — born Niccolò Moriconi — shared a message on social media addressed to his younger self: “I'll be playing what will be the concert with the most tickets sold in history. I can't help but dedicate it to Niccolò. In fact, I can't help but ring Niccolò's doorbell, and from below look up at the window I'm waiting for him to appear at.” After congratulating Ultimo, with a generous message on his social media profiles championing the idea of “make way for the young,” Vasco Rossi nevertheless wanted to recall, in a post, the historic importance of his own previous record: “The legendary Modena Park will forever go down in history as the greatest rock concert in world music. An unreachable, unattainable and unrepeatable record,” Vasco writes alongside aerial video and photos shot from a helicopter, stressing that it was “a gigantic demonstration of love. In the end, that night, the record hadn't won. The numbers hadn't won. Something much bigger had won. Love over fear.”

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The concerts with the most spectators in Italian history

According to data republished by All Music Italy, the record to date belongs precisely to that Vasco Rossi event, which on July 1, 2017 drew 225,173 paying spectators to Modena Park, to celebrate forty years of his career. The singer-songwriter from Zocca is set to make history again in 2027, when he will celebrate fifty years of his career with an unprecedented residency at Rome's Stadio Olimpico: ten concerts scheduled for June, with total attendance expected to top 500,000 people.
Behind Modena Park sits another now-legendary event in Italian music: the first Campovolo by Luciano Ligabue, staged on September 10, 2005 before 165,264 spectators.
The ranking of the most crowded concerts of all time also includes Campovolo 2015, which drew around 150,000 spectators, confirming the strong bond between Ligabue and his audience.

Here is the top 5, updated as of July 15, 2025, of the ticketed concerts with the most spectators in Italian history, counting only events headlined by a single artist:

1. Ultimo – Tor Vergata, Rome – June 10, 2026 → 250,000 attendees
2. Vasco Rossi – Modena Park – July 1, 2017 → 225,173 attendees
3. Ligabue – Campovolo – September 10, 2005 → 165,264 attendees
4. Ligabue – Campovolo 2015 – September 19, 2015 → 150,000 attendees
5. Vasco Rossi – Imola – June 11, 2022 → 120,000 attendees

Next on the list would come Ligabue again, then Vasco Rossi, followed by international artists such as U2, Coldplay, Pink Floyd and Bruce Springsteen. Among women, meanwhile, the top spots go to Madonna in 1987 at the Stadio Olimpico with around 75,000 spectators and Laura Pausini in 2007 at San Siro with over 70,000.

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