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\n\tZach Bryan has set a new attendance record at Gillette Stadium.<\/p>\n
\n\tOn Saturday (Oct. 3), the 30-year-old country star broke the attendance record at the Foxborough, Mass., venue during the second of his back-to-back shows on his With Heaven on Tour.<\/p>\n
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\t\t\t\t\tZach Bryan Wears \u2018Free Palestine\u2019 Shirt at Robert Kraft\u2019s Gillette\u00a0Stadium\t\t<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\n\t\u201cTonight, Zach Bryan broke the Gillette Stadium attendance record with 73,538 fans!\u201d Gillette Stadium wrote on Instagram, alongside a handful of crowd shots from the show.<\/p>\n
\n\tGillette Stadium lists its capacity at 64,628, though seating configurations can vary for concerts and other events, according to the venue\u2019s website.<\/p>\n
\n\tBryan drew headlines after his opening night at the Kraft Group-owned venue on Friday (Oct. 2), when he wore a black T-shirt reading \u201cFree Palestine.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tMembers of Bryan\u2019s band were also spotted wearing matching shirts, according to TMZ. The \u201cI Remember Everything\u201d singer did not address the shirts during the performances.<\/p>\n
\n\tBryan\u2019s decision to wear the \u201cFree Palestine\u201d shirt comes weeks after Macklemore was removed from the remaining U.S. dates of Ed Sheeran\u2019s Loop Tour following pro-Palestinian remarks he made during his Sept. 4 and 5 concerts at New Jersey\u2019s MetLife Stadium.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe removal followed calls for Macklemore to be dropped from the tour, including a petition from the Israeli-American Council. Tour promoter Messina Touring Group later said multiple venues had indicated they would not allow Macklemore to perform.<\/p>\n
\n\tRobert Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots and Gillette Stadium, also addressed the controversy, saying he felt a responsibility to speak up when he believed a line had been crossed on antisemitism while acknowledging that Palestinian suffering is real.<\/p>\n
\n\tSheeran\u2019s Loop Tour was originally scheduled to stop at Gillette Stadium on Sept. 25 and 26, but both Foxborough shows were canceled due to severe weather.<\/p>\n
\n\tThis isn\u2019t the first time Bryan has addressed politics through his music. In October 2025, a teaser for his song \u201cBad News,\u201d which references ICE raids, drew criticism from the Department of Homeland Security and the White House. Bryan pushed back, saying the song spoke to both sides of the political aisle and urging fans not to let social media divide them. The song was later included on his album With Heaven on Top<\/em>, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in January. <\/p>\n \n\tCheck out Gillette Stadium\u2019s Instagram post about Bryan\u2019s new attendance record here.<\/p>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/music-news\/zach-bryan-gillette-attendance-record-free-palestine-shirt-1236353916\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/zach-bryan-gillette-stadium-2024-billboard-1800.jpg?w=1024″] Trending on Billboard Zach Bryan has set a new attendance record at Gillette Stadium. On Saturday (Oct. 3), the 30-year-old country star broke the attendance record at the Foxborough, Mass., venue during the second of his back-to-back shows on his With Heaven on Tour. Related Zach Bryan Wears \u2018Free Palestine\u2019 Shirt at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,226],"class_list":["post-2178774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-billboard-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2178774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2178774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2178774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2178774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Billboard](\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/2HpFicp.png\")
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