How Shakira Outdid Herself With Her Historic 2025 Stadium Tour

It was supposed to be a North American arena tour. When Shakira first announced her Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran outing in April 2024, the route took her to arenas across the continent that fall. But within months, it morphed into something else. Buoyed by the sustained success of her album of the same name — the set, released by Sony Music Latin, debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Latin Albums and Top Latin Pop Albums charts — and her subsequent viral single, “Soltera,” live demand for Shakira exploded. That October, she announced Latin American stadium dates for early 2025 — and scrapped her North American arena tour, instead announcing a mix of stadium and arena dates for the continent for May and June 2025.

That bold move has paid off handsomely. Through the 82-show tour’s first 64 dates, Shakira grossed $327.4 million and sold 2.5 million tickets, according to Billboard Boxscore. And the Live Nation-promoted tour also has a place in history: Shakira now boasts the highest-grossing Latin tour ever by a woman and the second highest-grossing Latin tour ever (behind only Luis Miguel’s 2023-24 outing, which grossed $409.5 million).

The tour’s sales include her historic 12-concert run at Mexico City’s Estadio GNP Seguros — the most shows a single tour has ever played at the iconic venue formerly known as Foro Sol. Shakira sold 65,000 tickets per night, according to promoter OCESA, for a total of 780,000 tickets sold.

Shakira will be honored as Global Touring Icon at Billboard‘s Live Music Summit, held Nov. 3 in Los Angeles. For tickets and more information, click here.

Shakira, who returned to the road on Oct. 25 for a run of 17 Latin American stadium dates that will take her through mid-­December, is approaching Miguel’s record mark — and she has yet to announce a possible European leg of the tour. She’ll end 2025 with two Up Close & Personal shows at Miami’s Hard Rock Casino on Dec. 27 and 28.

Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran and its subsequent tour followed Shakira’s high-profile heartbreak and separation. “I believe this has been a healing process for me and for many people — not just women; men, too. I think together we’ve learned that you grow from setbacks and that together we heal when we support each other,” she told Billboard backstage at one of her Mexico City shows in March. “These are more than just concerts. They’re very profound gatherings where healing happens. With each show, I feel stronger and happier.”

This story appears in the Oct. 25, 2025, issue of Billboard.