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.

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

Lady Gaga has achieved a monumental milestone in music history. On May 3, the 39-year-old pop icon performed a free concert on Rio de Janeiro’s famed Copacabana Beach that drew an estimated 2.5 million people – the largest crowd ever for a female artist’s solo show.