World-renowned rapper Kanye West performed in Istanbul for the first time on Saturday, drawing a mammoth crowd of some 118,000 fans to Ataturk Olympic Stadium in one of the year’s biggest music events.
The concert, organised in cooperation with NTRteam, attracted thousands of visitors from Türkiye as well as the United Kingdom, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Italy, Russia, Poland and countries across the Middle East.
The stadium reached capacity hours before the show as fans gathered to watch the Grammy-winning artist’s long-awaited debut performance in Türkiye.
West opened the concert with his song Father and closed the nearly two-hour set with Stronger.
Performing atop a giant spherical stage, the artist delivered some of the most popular tunes from his long career, including King, Runaway, Power, Flashing Lights, Heartless, Black Skinhead, All The Love and Homecoming.
Fans joined in throughout the performance, singing along and dancing as applause and chants echoed around the stadium.
