The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo cleared its attendance record by a healthy margin with a total of 2,735,695 fans entering the grounds over 23 days, up from a record-setting 2024 with 2.5 million.

Of those 2.7 million, 1.3 million bought a rodeo and concert ticket, with Brooks & Dunn, Parker McCollum, Luke Bryan, Journey, Zach Top, and Grupo Frontera all clearing 70,000.

Saturday, March 22 was the biggest individual day with 199,220 attendees.

Additionally, the Junior Market Steer Auction had the Grand Champion and Reserve Grand Champion steers sell for more than $600,000 for the first time. The junior auction set a new record in overall sales at $29.6 million.