Eight years later, Shakira is back in Spain. The singer's return, who has not performed in our country since the El Dorado World Tour in 2018, will not only consist of a series of concerts. The Colombian's arrival in Madrid will be accompanied by an artistic framework that complements the closing of the world tour "Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran," which began over a year ago in Rio de Janeiro and recently concluded in Mexico with a free concert for 400,000 people in Mexico City's Zócalo.
In September, Madrid will be the only stop in Europe for the singer's tour, with three concerts at the Iberdrola Music venue in the capital on the 25th, 26th, and 27th. However, according to sources, these will not be the only concerts Shakira will have during her stay in Spain. The plan is to add more dates as tickets sell out. Although the exact number is not yet confirmed, it is worth noting that Bad Bunny holds the record with 10 dates scheduled for this June - and 600,000 tickets sold - and one of Shakira's ambitions on this tour has been to break Latin music records.
The concerts will not be the only event the artist is preparing for her stay in Madrid. The intention is for the Madrid venue, the same one that hosted Harry Styles' concerts in 2023 and is the venue for Mad Cool, to become a kind of city dedicated to the artist under the name "Es Latina." The venue will open its doors long before the concerts, where fans will gather for exhibitions, talks, workshops, cinema, gastronomy, literature, all curated by Shakira herself, who returns to Spain for the first time since her highly publicized separation from footballer Gerard Piqué - the song against him is the tour's title - and after her tax issues.
In a preview of the interview that will air next week on the late-night show "Al cielo con ella" on TVE, the singer announced that something called the Shakira Stadium will be built in Madrid, although no further details are available. What has been seen at previous stops on her tour in Latin America and the United States is that the singer brings a huge stage surrounded by screens, accompanied by a long catwalk, as was the case at the GNP Stadium [formerly Foro Sol] in Mexico City or at the Olympic Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, where the singer ends her concert among the audience with her dancers.
Tickets for Shakira's first concerts in Madrid will go on sale next Tuesday, March 24th. That day will be the presale starting at 10 a.m. for those registered on the artist's official website (www.shakira.com). The following day, March 25th, at the same time, will be the SMusic presale; on the 26th, the Live Nation presale also at 10 a.m., and on the 27th, the general ticket sale will take place through the Live Nation, Ticketmaster, and El Corte Inglés websites.
Shakira's residency in Madrid as the only European stop on her "Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran" tour also serves to reinforce the capital's position as a hub for Latin music in Europe. This, in addition to the 10 dates Bad Bunny has scheduled at the Metropolitano Stadium and Karol G's four nights at the Santiago Bernabéu in July 2024 before concerts at the Madrid stadium were halted. Shakira, on the other hand, has chosen the Iberdrola Music venue, a space that has been surrounded by controversy due to access issues in the early editions of Mad Cool held there and during Harry Styles' concerts with long queues and attendees suffering from heatstroke.
Before arriving in Madrid, Shakira will make one more stop in Rio de Janeiro on May 2nd for the "Todo Mundo No Rio" concert, the mega-event organized by the city's administration on Copacabana Beach. The Colombian will be the third consecutive woman to perform at this concert: in 2024, Madonna did it, and last year, it was Lady Gaga. With the "Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour," the artist has achieved the highest-grossing Latin tour in history, according to Billboard last January, raising over $421 million and attracting over 3.3 million spectators to her 82 concerts held in stadiums in different countries.