Radiohead break the O2's attendance record four nights running

Radiohead broke the O2's attendance record on each of their four sold-out nights in London, the arena said on 28 November, with every crowd bigger than the night before. The last, on 25 November, drew 22,355, the most people the building has ever held, and the O2 put the four nights at over 90,000 between them.

The record had stood since 24 October 2017, when 22,211 came to the second of Metallica's two nights there, also staged in the round. The O2 normally holds 20,000; a round stage adds a standing floor of about 6,000, says Christian D'Acuna, the arena's senior director of programming.

Each London ticket carried £1 for the LIVE Trust, which funds grassroots venues around the UK, and Samaritans' listening volunteers were at the O2 every night collecting donations, as Phil Selway had announced before the run. Selway, an ambassador for Samaritans, was one of those listening volunteers himself for 15 years before he took up campaigning for the charity.

D'Acuna also notes that the band played a different set every night; the last one brought back “Like Spinning Plates”.

The O2 attendance record