Country superstar Luke Combs continues to shatter records, this time on the other side of the Atlantic.
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The Grammy-nominated singer is currently on the European leg of his My Kind of Saturday Night Tour, and on Saturday, July 4, he made history in Sweden.
A record-breaking crowd of 60,826 fans packed Gothenburg's Ullevi Stadium, setting a new attendance record for a country music concert in the Nordic region and highlighting the genre's rapid growth across Europe.
Luke Combs Sets European Country Music Record
The historic show came just three years after Combs sold out Stockholm's Avicii Arena.
The Swedish capital's arena holds around 17,000 fans, less than a third of the crowd that turned out for his latest performance.
Even then, demand for the American star exceeded expectations, with promoters upgrading the original venue to accommodate more fans.
"We work with acts of all sizes," Niklas Herrström of Live Nation-backed Luger previously said. "US acts that may previously have skipped our market are now coming over and building strong, long-lasting audiences."
After Sweden, Combs performed at Paris' 20,000-capacity Accor Arena before continuing his stadium run across Europe.
European Tour Continues With Huge Stadium Shows
The tour then moved to Amsterdam's 71,000-capacity Johan Cruyff Arena before heading to Ireland and the United Kingdom.
Combs is scheduled to perform two nights at Slane Castle on July 18 and 19, with 80,000 fans expected each evening.
He will then travel to Edinburgh's Murrayfield Stadium for two shows before wrapping up the tour with three performances at London's Wembley Stadium.
With Wembley holding around 90,000 people, Combs will perform in front of approximately 270,000 fans across those three nights alone.
The record crowds underline the remarkable growth of country music throughout Europe, with the United Kingdom emerging as one of the genre's strongest international markets.
The popular Country to Country festival now spans multiple nights in London and Glasgow, and will expand to Manchester in 2027.
Zach Top, Keith Urban, and Brooks & Dunn headlined the 2026 edition, while previous editions featured some of country music's biggest names, including Lainey Wilson, Kane Brown, Brad Paisley, Luke Combs, and Darius Rucker.
The festival, which first ran from 2013 to 2019 before returning in 2022, has also staged events in Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands, Germany, and Australia, reflecting country music's expanding global reach.
