{"id":709416,"date":"2026-06-02T06:00:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T06:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/709416\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T06:00:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T06:00:24","slug":"bruno-mars-five-shows-broke-attendance-record-in-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/709416\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruno Mars&#8217; five shows broke attendance record in Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Breadcrumb Trail Links<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"breadcrumbs__item-link\" data-tb-category-link=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/torontosun.com\/category\/entertainment\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Entertainment<\/a><a class=\"breadcrumbs__item-link\" data-tb-category-link=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/torontosun.com\/category\/entertainment\/music\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Music<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-subtitle\">Venue says Mars now holds the record for the most tickets sold for single tour stop in the city<\/p>\n<p>Published Jun 01, 2026 \u00a0\u2022\u00a0 1 minute read<\/p>\n<p><a aria-label=\"Join the conversation\" class=\"article-meta-comment-count\" data-story-comment-component=\"\" href=\"#comments-area\">   <\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can save this article by registering for free <a class=\"bookmark-link\" data-evt-skip-click=\"true\" href=\"http:\/\/torontosun.com\/register\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. 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Bruno is so insanely talented!!!!!! How lucky we are to be able to experience him in our lives!!!!!! Love you @BrunoMars,\u201d wrote one person on X.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement 3<\/p>\n<p>This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.<\/p>\n<p>Article content<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I\u2019ll never forget it. Thank you @BrunoMars and @Rogers_Stadium,\u201d wrote another.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, bring him back for an encore show next year. Five shows ain\u2019t enough,\u201d added another fan.<\/p>\n<p>Bad weather pushed Mars to postpone the first night of his tour stop in Toronto, which was moved to Sunday.<\/p>\n<p data-async=\"\">Toronto Sun\u2019s Jane Stevenson, who attended Mars\u2019 second show last Wednesday, said his 130-minute set had \u201c<a data-evt-val=\"{\" control_fields=\"\" link=\"\" a=\"\" fan=\"\" could=\"\" want=\"\" data-evt=\"click\" data-evt-typ=\"click\" href=\"https:\/\/torontosun.com\/news\/local-news\/bruno-mars-big-show-rogers-stadium\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">everything a fan could want<\/a>,\u201d which saw the 40-year-old singer perform soul, funk, R&amp;B and Latin songs from his latest album, The Romantic, along with older hits, which got the crowd singing along with him.<\/p>\n<p>Read More<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/torontosun.com\/news\/local-news\/bruno-mars-big-show-rogers-stadium\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bruno Mars in Toronto at Rogers Stadium during one of five shows\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-05-28-033132-e1779965904174.png\"  class=\"lazyload\" height=\"96\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"96\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Bruno Mars packs powerful punch with big show at Rogers Stadium<\/p>\n<p> <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/torontosun.com\/news\/local-news\/bruno-mars-first-5-rogers-stadium-shows-heard-vaughan-says-anti-noise-group\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rogers Stadium at the former Downsview Airport Lands just north of Toronto.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-04-08-110845-e1775663917708.png\"  class=\"lazyload\" height=\"96\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"96\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Anti-noise group cranks up complaints after latest Rogers Stadium concert<\/p>\n<p> <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Article content<\/p>\n<p>Share this article in your social network<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Breadcrumb Trail Links EntertainmentMusic Venue says Mars now holds the record for the most tickets sold for single&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":709417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-709416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/709417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}