Chappell Roan might have made history at Lollapalooza 2024 – find out more below.
On August 1 (Friday), Roan performed at the long-running Chicago festival, and amassed an audience so big, it started making waves on social media as people packed out the main stage at Grant Park. You can check out clips of the massive crowd below.
Chappell Roan’s Lollapalooza crowd is bigger than anything I’ve seen in a long time. pic.twitter.com/Jps3oUsthb
— Anthony Dominic (@alloveranthony) August 2, 2024
Chappell Roan had the entire city and the suburbs at Grant Park yesterday
— Barstool Chicago (@barstoolchicago) August 2, 2024
While it is impossible to confirm the exact number of people who caught Roan’s set at Grant Park, a spokesperson for Lollapalooza confirmed to CNN that her set was “the biggest daytime set we’ve ever seen. It was a magical moment added to Lolla’s DNA.”
Two sources close to Roan and Lollapalooza also told CNN that Roan’s set has rivaled attendance numbers for most headliners and is potentially of Lollapalooza’s most watched sets ever. Lollapalooza boasted a daily attendance of 110,000 fans in Chicago this year.
The NME cover star has been open about the drawbacks over her meteoric rise to fame, and expressed wanting to “[pump] the brakes” on it after fans gave off “stalker vibes”.
Speaking on the latest episode of the Comment Section podcast with Drew Afualo, Roan said: “People have started to be freaks — like, [they] follow me and know where my parents live, and where my sister works. All this weird shit.”
Roan recalled: “This is the time when a few years ago when I said that if [there were] stalker vibes or my family was in danger, I would quit. And we’re there. We’re there! I’m just kind of in this battle… I’ve pumped the brakes on, honestly, anything to make me more known. It’s kind of a forest fire right now. I’m not trying to go do a bunch of shit.”
Elsewhere, Roan made a crossover into the wrestling world, after causing a string of rave reactions online for wearing lucha libre attire at her Lollapalooza 2024 set.
The NME cover star released her debut studio album, ‘The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess’, last September. In a four-star review, NME described it as “a display of Roan’s bold and brazen pen, where she places searing revelations alongside some deliciously cheeky choruses”.
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