One Love Manchester Benefit Concert

It was a night filled with stars, music and surprises — but, most importantly, love. The One Love Manchester concert, staged by Ariana Grande, raised money for the victims of the suicide bombing at her show in the United Kingdom less than two weeks before.

Grande, joined by numerous A-list acts at Emirates Old Trafford Cricket Ground, was just miles from Manchester Arena, the site of the May 22 attack that claimed the lives of 22 people and injured dozens.

“The kind of love and unity you are displaying is the medicine that the world really needs right now,” said Grande.

Grande, along with Katy Perry, Justin Bieber, Coldplay, Miley Cyrus, Marcus Mumford, Take That, Robbie Williams, Pharrell Williams, Imogen Heap, Liam Gallagher, former One Direction member Niall Horan, the Black Eyed Peas — without Fergie — and Little Mix, took to a quickly constructed stage for the organized benefit concert, One Love Manchester, promoting the night’s message of unity. The concert also came one day after an attack at London Bridge which killed seven and wounded 48.

The concert sold out with an attendance of 50,000 and raised more than $3 million for the Manchester Emergency Fund. Its broadcast drew the largest TV audience of any program so far this year peaking with 14.5 million viewers, or 49.3 percent of overall viewers. The concert also streamed on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter.

The 23-year old pop sensation closed the show performing a rendition of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” during which she was so overwhelmed with emotion, she paused before the song’s coda.