Tina in the Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro
Guinness World Records is a reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world. The book was co-founded by twin brothers Norris and Ross McWhirter in August 1955. Tina Turner achieved two records.
Rio '88
On 16 January 1988, for the final date on the South American leg of her Break Every Rule Tour, Tina Turner performed a concert at the Estádio do Maracanã in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with 180,000 fans in attendance. The tour, in support of her sixth solo studio album, grossed $60 million (£32.2 million) from 218 shows between March 4, 1987 and March, 30 1988 and was witnessed by 4 million people. It was the highest-grossing tour of the 1980s by a female artist.
Turner’s momentous gig was, at the time, the biggest crowd ever assembled for a ticketed concert (excluding music festivals), breaking Frank Sinatra’s record of 175,000 at the same venue on January 26, 1980.
Top 40 Hits
Tina was the first artist to score Top 40 hits on the UK’s Official Singles Chart in seven consecutive decades, from the 1960s to the 2020s.
Her biggest hit in each decade was: River Deep - Mountain High (with Ike Turner; No.3 in 1966); Nutbush City Limits (with Ike Turner; No.4 in 1973); What’s Love Got To Do With It (No.3 in 1984) and We Don’t Need Another Hero (No.3 in 1985); It Takes Two (with Rod Stewart; No.5 in 1990); Open Arms (No.25 in 2004); The Best (No.5 in 1989, No.9 in 2010, and posthumously No.25 in 2023). Tina's seventh consecutive decade of UK Top 40 hit-making was confirmed when a new version of What’s Love Got To Do With It, a collaboration with Kygo, debuted at No.40 on 30 July 2020 – some 54 years after her UK chart debut.