{"id":777794,"date":"2026-09-21T12:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T12:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/777794\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T12:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T12:40:10","slug":"calvin-harris-recognised-for-1-6m-world-record-dj-set-crowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/777794\/","title":{"rendered":"Calvin Harris recognised for 1.6m world record DJ set crowd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Harris has already been recognised for a number of other records in the past.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In 2014, GWR presented him with a certificate for most top 10 hits on the UK singles chart from one album for 18 Months which produced no fewer than nine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It also lists him as the highest paid DJ in one year for his earnings between June 2015 and 2016.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">GWR said Harris had turned Sao Paulo into &#8220;one massive street party&#8221; by climbing on board a carnival float for his performance on 8 February 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wearing a Brazilian football shirt with the name Calvinho on the back he worked his way through a setlist featuring many of his biggest hits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The record book also noted that a similar-sized crowd attended Madonna&#8217;s free concert on Copacabana Beach in May 2024 during her Celebration Tour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Harris has already been recognised for a number of other records in the past. In 2014, GWR presented&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":777795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-777794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}