Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour

Following her halftime performance at Super Bowl LIV, Live Nation announced Shakira would tour in 2021. Further news was delayed, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In September 2023, Shakira told Billboard she planned to release new music and embark on a "global tour" in the following year. She told the publication: "Putting a tour together is fun, but it's a great effort and you have to put everything on the balance and decide what the fans really want to hear, what songs you want to hear and how much production you want. In the end, the more production you have, the higher the ticket price. I want the tickets to be affordable. But to me, the most important thing is the repertoire. That's why I think [my next tour] will be the tour of a lifetime, because I have so many songs." Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran Tour was announced by Shakira during her appearance as a special guest during Bizarrap's set at Coachella on 13 April 2024. Three days later, Live Nation announced concerts in North America starting that November, with additional concerts added due to demand in Palm Springs, Miami and New York City, respectively. In October 2024, Shakira's official website revealed concerts in the Latin America region; additional concerts were subsequently added in several cities eight days later. Following her announcement, the upgraded concerts and venues were announced for May and June 2025 by Live Nation. Additional concerts in Atlanta, Houston and Phoenix were announced on 10 December 2024. On 5 February 2025, it was announced Shakira would headline the Sueños Music Festival. Later that month, it was announced Brazilian DJ Dennis would serve as a supporting act for the tour's opening night. Billboard reported that "an exclusive and unique performance" from the 20 February concert will be featured as part of the Lo Nuestro Awards on Univision. On 14 February, a concert in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, was announced; the concert was postponed due to operational issues, and later rescheduled. On 16 February, Shakira cancelled her concert in Lima, Peru, for that same day, due to hospitalization; a rescheduled date was announced the following day, with a third concert added. On 25 February 2025 Chilean singer Antonella Sigala was announced as the supporting act for the shows in Santiago; the concerts were postponed the evening of the first show. Natalie Pérez served as the supporting act for the 7 and 8 March 2025 concerts in Buenos Aires. Throughout March 2025, additional concerts across various cities in Mexico were announced, for a record total of 22 concerts in that country. In April 2025, additional concerts in East Rutherford and Miami were announced, as well as four additional concerts in Mexico. Puerto Rican singer and songwriter Gale announced she would serve as a supporting act for the 12 and 13 April concerts in Medellín. Wyclef Jean was announced as supporting act for shows in Charlotte (13 May 2025) and Boston (29 May 2025), respectively. On 18 April, Live Nation announced Pitbull as the supporting act for her second show at MetLife Stadium on 16 May. On 29 May 2025, hours before the Boston show, the concert was cancelled due to "unforeseen circumstances". According to reports, Will.i.am was set to make an appearance during the concert. Subsequently, Shakira's performance at WorldPride in Washington, D.C. was cancelled. On 13 June 2025, the San Antonio show was cancelled less than one hour prior to its start, the show was later rescheduled for 5 July. That same day, it was announced the 20 June concert in Inglewood, California, had been postponed, following the Los Angeles protests. On 19 June, two additional shows in Mexico were announced. The following day, two additional concerts were announced in California—one in Fresno and an additional date in Inglewood; Black Eyed Peas served as support act for the concerts in Inglewood. In July 2025, fifteen concerts in Latin America were announced. Pitbull and Gale also returned as support acts for select concerts in August and September 2025, respectively. In September, a third concert in Buenos Aires was announced. In November and December, concerts in Córdoba, Argentina; El Salvador; and Mexico were also announced. In December 2025, Meri Deal, Ángela Torres, and Tizishi were the supporting acts for the concerts held in Uruguay, Buenos Aires, and Cordoba, respectively. In January 2026, Shakira was announced as a headliner for Abu Dhabi's Offlimits Music Festival as part of her tour, along with concerts in Aqaba, Jordan, and Doha, Quatar. The following month, a free concert in Mexico at Zócalo and a performance at the Giza pyramid complex in Egypt were also announced. Additionally, she was named the headliner for Todo Mundo no Rio in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro. In March 2026, eleven concerts in Madrid, Spain, were announced. Billed as a "European residency", the event will take place in September and October of the same year. A temporary venue—Shakira Stadium—will be constructed in Madrid's Villaverde district. The multi-night event will mark the conclusion of the tour. That April, a limited run of arena concerts in the United States was announced for June and July of that year. ==Production==

" and "BZRP Music Sessions, Vol. 53" Rehearsals for the tour started around mid-August 2024, with Shakira announcing them with a series of pictures through her social networks. On another teaser from Shakira through Instagram, aimed at Latin America, the singer performs at Electric Air Studios a new arrangement for her 1997 single "Antología," accompanied by her longtime collaborator, Luis Fernando Ochoa. In late October, Shakira posted, also through her Instagram account, another teaser video, this time aimed at North America, singing at the same aforementioned studio her 1996 hit single "Pies Descalzos, Sueños Blancos." During an interview for Brazilian website GShow, Shakira revealed the latter song, plus other signature hits of hers, such as "Estoy Aquí" and "Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)", would be included to the set list, with the tour being described by herself as "the biggest show of [her] career, the most comprehensible one," whose rehearsals include a daily 12-14 hour full schedule of preparations along with her crew, to perform "these most, most relevant concerts of [her] musical lifetime." Later on, she also revealed the members for her band, most of them already longtime collaborators of her, such as musical director and guitarist Tim Mitchell, drummer Brendan Buckley and piano and keyboard player Albert Menéndez, with also the addition of bass player Donald Alford II. In an interview for GQ España, Shakira has described the current process of her tour: "It's the most ambitious tour of my entire career, the biggest production I've had so far. Not because the public asks for it, but because I deserve it after so many years working in this world. I deserve the tour of my life. I'm throwing the house out the window. I am happy because I will be able to take a tour of the different stages of my artistic life, until today. It will be the longest show I’ve ever done with the biggest screen and everything you can imagine. More is more and better!" On 21 January 2025, Shakira moved from the USA to Mexico to finish her last rehearsals before tour properly kicks off in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. which included a realistic projection of the singer that was made by Los Angeles-based creative studio Actual Objects. Artist Isabella Mebarak claimed that a likeness analysis of the singer was conducted to resemble her features. The "first of its kind" CGI animated version of Shakira is shown during the interludes. Artificial intelligence was also used during the process to produce the on-screen interlude visuals. The tour features an "elaborate production", According to Chilean media outlet Culto, the cost of producing each concert is estimated to be more than US$3 million. Preparations lasted about 10 months. Shakira worked with company Yellow Studio to design "a stage that evolves along with the show". ==Critical reception==

Olivia Petty of The San Diego Union-Tribune praised Shakira's performance and versatility, but criticized the on-screen visuals: "The apparently AI-generated visuals that filled the transitions between some songs left much to be desired, feeling out of place and generally unappealing to the eye." ==Ticket sales==

In North America, during the pre-sale period of Shakira's North American arena leg, the tickets of most of the shows were sold out. The tickets vary widely in prices, between circa $200 and $2000 (excluding VIP or other add-on tickets), depending on the cities. Due to overwhelming demand, Shakira added extra shows in Palm Springs, Miami and New York City. Meanwhile, her shows in Phoenix, Inglewood, San Antonio, Dallas, Charlotte, Washington DC, and Chicago were mostly sold out. In Miami, she was supposed to extend the record of being the female artist to perform most shows in Kaseya Center, 11 in total. However, the whole leg was moved to May 2025 due to Live Nation's decision to upgrade the several North American shows to stadiums. new dates were promptly added to several cities. The singer promised she will bring the tour to most of the Latin American countries due to the overwhelming demand. In Mexico City, she is the first female artist to perform seven sold-out shows at Estadio GNP Seguros, breaking the record previously held by Taylor Swift with four. She is also the first artist to ever perform seven shows of the same tour at the venue, breaking the record previously held by RBD with six. The stadium is named as "Shakira stadium" on Google Maps, honoring her record-breaking achievement. In an article, Billboard claimed the seven shows in Mexico City would gather crowds of "about 455,000 people in total". Ticketmaster Mexico reported that 2.5 million people visited its website to search for tickets to Shakira’s concerts since the tour was announced in the country last October. == Commercial performance ==

Box office Live Nation reported that in less than two hours of sale in Latin America, 950,000 tickets were sold across 18 stadiums, which broke the all-time record for ticket sales among female artists. With more than 30 shows ahead, Live Nation revealed in 17 March 2025 that more than two million tickets have already been sold. In March 2025, Billboard reported that $32.9 million were made from the first six shows, which had sold over 282,000 tickets. The outlet also projected the tour to finish with over $200 million in total grosses with shows announced as of 27 March 2025. In May 2025, Billboard published their midyear report, covering concerts, including her first seven nights at Estadio GNP Seguros that March. Additional reports in May were made, as well as in the months of June, July, and September 2025. In October 2025, Billboard reported the tour had earned million and an attendance of 2.5 million within its first 64 concerts. making it the highest-grossing Latin tour ever by a woman ever, as well as the second highest-grossing Latin tour ever. In their year-end report for 2025, Billboard recognized the tour as the fifth-best tour of the year. Similarly, Pollstar named the tour as the fifth-most lucrative tour of 2025, with an average gross of million based on 64 reported shows. In January 2026, Billboard reported that $35.7 million was generated from ten concerts, with an attendance of 267,000 also noted. Individual reports regarding the December 2025 concerts in Buenos Aires and Montevideo were also provided. They further reported the tour had generated million and attracted an audience of 3.3 million over its first 86 concerts, setting a new Guinness World Record for the highest-grossing Latin tour in history. Venue records ==Impact==

Economy, commerce and local business In January 2025, LATAM Airlines Group's Brazilian branding announced an additional flight on 12 February of the same year, from Confins Airport to Guarulhos Airport ahead of Shakira's concert the following day, to accommodate the increase in passenger demand. That same month, their Colombian branding added eight additional flights to Barranquilla, from Bogotá and Medellín, to meet the demand for Shakira’s concert and the carnival in her hometown. In a press release, Brazilian travel agency Decolar reported a 67% increase in demand for flights to Rio de Janeiro and a 24% increase in demand for flights to São Paulo during the period of the singer's shows in those cities in relation to the same periods in 2024. In Mexico, the tour also set a historic precedent by boosting tourism and generating millions in economic revenue across the three major cities of the country. According to data from Ticketmaster, between 30% and 40% of attendees at Shakira’s concerts in Mexico travel from another state in the country to one of the three cities hosting the shows, as well as international travelers from the United States, El Salvador, Colombia, and Peru. In Monterrey, the hotel demand was increased by 66%. In Guadalajara, the two shows led to double hotel occupancy, with approximately 40,000 rooms booked per night. This generated around 80 million pesos (about $4 million) in direct hotel revenue and contributed an estimated 900 million pesos (around $44.4 million) in total tourism revenue. The seven sold-out shows at Estadio GNP Seguros are projected to have an economic impact of 5.5 billion pesos (around $275 million), according to the CDMX Secretariat of Tourism, as reported by Billboard Español. According to Forbes Colombia, the singer's shows in the country generated an economic impact of approximately Col$206 billion ($US49,6 million). According to Billboard, the first seven sold out shows in Mexico City generated around 20,000 jobs in logistics, security, transportation, and production, benefiting workers across various sectors such as hospitality, restaurants, and airlines, as well as street vendors and small businesses near the venues. Honors • After finishing off her two sold out shows in Barranquilla, the mayor of the city Alejandro Char decided to honor Shakira by changing one of the main roads in the city, Avenida 72 to Avenida Shakira. According to the mayor, this initiative seeks to honor the artist's career and highlight her impact on the culture and international recognition of Barranquilla. ==Controversy==

Cancellations and postponements Several media outlets noted the high number of cancelled and postponed shows during the North American and Latin American legs of the tour, citing "production and logistic issues". The last-minute suspensions of shows in Medellín and Santiago, In response to the cancellation in Washington, D.C., which was to be part of WorldPride, Mayor Muriel Bowser shared a public message to the singer, telling her to "get yourself here". Following the postponement of the 13 June concert in San Antonio, fans cited their frustration with the lack of communication regarding the cancellation, which happened less than one-hour prior to show time. Following the postponement of the 20 June concert in Inglewood, California, due to the June 2025 Los Angeles protests, Preceding the cancellation of the 26 September show in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, which was originally rescheduled from 2 April, fans expressed concern about the lack of information as advertising for the event had been withdrawn from the media and public spaces in the prior weeks. Animal abuse by Barranquilla City Council Several Colombian animal rights advocates denounced that more than 100 stray cats that used to live in the surroundings of Estadio Metropolitano Roberto Meléndez were allegedly killed by the Alejandro Char administration days prior Shakira's concerts at the venue, in an effort to "embellish" the city for tourists. ==Set list==

This set list is from the 11 February 2025 concert in Rio de Janeiro. • Intro (Caloris) • "La Fuerte" • "Girl Like Me" • "Las de la Intuición" • "Estoy Aquí" • "Empire" • "Inevitable" • "Te Felicito" • "TQG" • "Don't Bother" • "Acróstico" • "Copa Vacía" • "La Bicicleta" • "La Tortura" • "Hips Don't Lie" • "Chantaje" • "Monotonía" • "Addicted to You" • "Loca" • "Soltera" • "Cómo Dónde y Cuándo" • "Última" / "Ojos Así" • "Pies Descalzos, Sueños Blancos" • "Mama África" (Chico César cover) • "Antología" • "Poem to a Horse" • "Objection (Tango)" • "Whenever, Wherever" • "Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)" • "She Wolf" • "Shakira: Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 53" Alterations • During the 20 February 2025 concert in Barranquilla, Shakira performed "Te Olvidé" with Chelito de Castro, and special guest Tatiana Angulo Fernández. She also performed a mashup of "Chantaje" and "En Barranquilla me quedo". • During the 19 March 2025 concert in Mexico Cty, Shakira performed "Ciega, Sordomuda" and "El Jefe". • During the 12 April 2025 concert in Medellin, Shakira performed "Chantaje" with Maluma. • Beginning with the 13 May 2025 concert in Charlotte, "Underneath Your Clothes" was added to the set list; additionally, Shakira performed "La Tortura" with Alejandro Sanz, and "Hips Don't Lie" with Wyclef Jean, respectively. • During the 15 May 2025 concert in East Rutherford, Shakira performed "Monotonía" with Ozuna. • During the 16 May 2025 concert in East Rutherford, Shakira performed "Te Felicito" with Rauw Alejandro. • During the 20 May 2025 concert in Montreal, Shakira performed "Je l'aime à mourir" by Francis Cabrel. • During the 6 June 2025 concert in Miami Gardens, Shakira performed "La Tortura" with Sanz, "Monotonía" with Ozuna, and "Copa Vacía" with Manuel Turizo. • During the 22 June 2025 concert in Phoenix, "Si Te Vas" was performed. • During the 4 August 2025 concert in Inglewood, "Men in This Town" was performed. • During the 26 August and 18 September 2025 concerts in Mexico City, Shakira performed "Soltera" with Danna. • During the 25 October 2025 concert in Cali, Shakira performed "Sin Sentimiento" with Grupo Niche. • During the 1 November 2025 concert in Bogotá, "La Pared" was performed with the Bogotá Philharmonic Orchestra. • During the 15, 16 and 18 November 2025 concerts in Lima, "La Pared" was performed with the Lima Philharmonic Orchestra. • During the 8 December 2025 concert in Buenos Aires, "Día Especial" was performed in tribute to Gustavo Cerati, which featured an AI-generated video of Cerati. ==Tour dates==

Postponed shows Cancelled shows ==See also==