Ed Sheeran The Mathematics Tour: More than 70,000 fans expected at Levi’s Stadium, bigger than Taylor Swift and Beyoncé

OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) — Ed Sheeran fans line up outside the Fox Theater in Oakland Friday afternoon to catch the singer’s Mathematics tour.

We saw a few dozen in line just before two this afternoon, a few hours before tonight’s concert.

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One fan came from Nashville and she also plans to be at Saturday night’s concert at Levi’s Stadium.

More than 70,000 fans are expected at his concert in Santa Clara on Saturday.

This is more than the 58,000 people who saw Taylor Swift and the 50,000 people for Beyoncé.

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Sheeran has the potential to surpass the largest sold-out concert crowd ever at Levi’s.

That was 77,000 people, or one Grateful Dead concert in 2015.

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