Direct answer: Woodstock ’99 had estimates ranging from about 220,000 to over 400,000 attendees, with many contemporary reports citing roughly 250,000–400,000 attendees on the peak Saturday night; official tallies and press reports vary, but commonly cited figures fall in the mid-to-upper hundreds of thousands.
Details and context:
- Estimated attendance range: sources differ. Some articles cite about 220,000 attendees (roughly the ticketed or counted figure), while others estimate as high as 400,000 total attendees for the event. The discrepancy arises from counting methods, including unregistered attendees and people on the site over the longer festival period.
- Peak Saturday night: many reports note that the crowd around the infamous Saturday night period was large, with figures often described as part of the mid-to-high hundreds of thousands overall for the event.
- Notable corroboration: multiple outlets and retrospective pieces summarize Woodstock ’99 as attracting a crowd on the order of hundreds of thousands, with widely cited figures in the 250,000–400,000 range.
If you’d like, I can pull the latest consensus from reliable sources and present a concise comparison of the major figure estimates with their origins.
