One Love Manchester Benefit Concert Hits $12 mil5 min read

The One Love Manchester benefit concert Sunday night in the UK drew an average audience of 10.9 million for BBC One, according to overnight data unveiled today. Ariana Grande was joined by such big names as Justin Bieber, Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus, Coldplay, Pharrell Williams, Usher, Niall Horan and Take That at Manchester’s Old Trafford cricket ground two weeks after a bomber killed 22 people after a Grande concert in the city. The audience peaked with 14.5 million viewers as Grande closed the show at 10 p.m. local time, and 22.6 million people watched at least three minutes, it showed. That made the concert the most-watched show of 2017 on British TV since coverage of the New Year’s Eve fireworks, according to sources.

Speaking of the One Love Manchester concert and its enormous hit on several levels, we know that includes financially as well. Sources involved in organizing the concert tell TMZ, the count right now is $12 million, but they expect it to go higher … millions higher.

As one source put it, “When it’s all counted it should be enough to take care of the victims and their families.”

The concert drew 55 thousand people, despite a warning from the UK government that another attack was likely.