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Crowd sporting "bald caps" gather ahead Pitbull concert on July 10, 2026. CARLOS JASSO/AFP/Getty Images Pitbull set a Guinness World Record in London on Friday for the “largest gathering of people wearing bald caps.” The rapper, along with some 22,141 fans who showed up to Hyde Park in bald caps, set the record at the BST Festival where Pitbull headlined.
“I’m speechless. Who would have thought a first-generation Cuban would be record-breaking and record-making?” Pitbull said when accepting the award, per The Guardian.
While Pitbull is bald, he donned a bald cap himself. As Will Munford, an official adjudicator for Guinness World Records told the outlet, Pitbull had “to wear a bald cap to be in the record number” as the record was not for “largest gathering of bald people.”
Volunteers numbered to 400 to “individually check people” when they entered and onsite. Plus, there was “drone footage with 42 counters backstage,” Munford said to tally the record.
The idea to try and set the record came from a fan. “This whole thing is happening because of me,” ack Remmington, a podcast host and cultural commenter, told The Guardian. Remmington had posted a TikTok video that went viral, which said BST, which has a 65,000 capacity, was “easily enough to break the world record of people cosplaying as Pitbull.” Remmington was in communication with Guinness World Records and BBC Radio 1 Greg James, and they texted Pitbull to see if he wanted to take the challenge, which he obviously did.
