Lady Gaga broke the record for highest-attended concert by a female artist on May 3, when she drew an estimated crowd of 2.5 million to her free concert at Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

It’s not every day a world record is broken—but Saturday, May 3, was one for the books. The record-breaker was none other than Lady Gaga and she did it before even kicking off her upcoming Mayhem Ball Tour,

The entertainer’s team was not told about the planned attack. They found out about it from media reports on Sunday.