She accomplished what no other Greek artist has been able to do thus far. And for Anna Vissi, a sixty-seven year old singer who has been pumping out hit after hit and performing show after show for over fifty years– it’s no small feat.

In fact, her show at the Panathenaic Stadium on October 5th, where more than 65,000 people came to hear her sing puts her in “phenomenon” status.

The show was record-breaking for Greek music standards for a solo-performer. By all known accounts, this was the largest-ever concert of a Greek singer. Previous shows at the same stadium that set records were Sakis Rouvas in 2009 and Vasilis Papaconstantinou in 2023, each selling around the 50,000 mark and with the stage built somewhere I the middle of the stadium.

From the drone shot below, if the stage was put any farther back, it would have blocked traffic on Vas. Sophias Avenue.

The show was a “best of” Anna Vissi’s greatest and favorite songs. She herself said it from the stage that it was difficult to select which songs she would share, from a catalog that could be approaching 500-600 songs.

Several times from the stage she acknowledged her creative partner (and once life partner) Nikos Karvelas for creating the music she has shared with generations of Greeks throughout the world for over five decades.