Tens of thousands of music lovers, visitors from different countries around the world, famous figures and a large-scale stage production design made Kanye West’s Istanbul night one of the most talked-about music events in the world.

The Saturday night at Atatürk Olympic Stadium, where the world-famous star met his audience, brought Istanbul to the center of the global music agenda with its visual shows, stage aesthetics and festival atmosphere.

Kanye West performed in front of 118,000 people filling the stadium, also setting the record for the highest-attendance stadium concert in the world.

The concert, organized in cooperation with NTRteam, attracted thousands of visitors from Türkiye as well as the U.K., Germany, France, the Netherlands, Italy, Russia, Poland and countries across the Middle East.

The stadium reached capacity hours before the show as fans gathered to watch the Grammy-winning artist’s long-awaited debut performance in Türkiye.