Attendance
Historically, attendance of events held in Hart Plaza has often been reported as being well in excess of the 14-acre (57,000 m2) venue's capacity of 40,000 people, even when crowds were counted by police and city officials. The reported attendance estimates for the electronic music festival were as follows:
- DEMF 2000: 1.1 to 1.5 million *
- DEMF 2001: 1.7 million *
- DEMF 2002: 1.7 million *
- Movement 2003: 630,000
- Movement 2004: 150,000 **
- Fuse-In 2005: 44,920 ***
- Fuse-In 2006: 41,000 ****
- Movement 2007: 43,337 *****
- Movement 2008: 75,000 *****
- Movement 2009: 83,322
- Movement 2010: 95,000
- Movement 2011: 99,282
- Movement 2012: 107,343
* Based on visual estimates by police and city officials, and conceded by city officials in 2003 to be an overly generous estimate.
** Reported by police on May 30, 2005.
*** 41,220 ticketholders, plus 3,700 DJs, VIPs, and press, reported by The Detroit News and The Detroit Free Press on June 2, 2005.
**** 41,000 tickets, quoted by Kevin Saunderson in Big Shot magazine
***** Reported by The Detroit Free Press on May 27, 2008.
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