Shakira is now the artist with the most consecutive concerts in the city of Madrid. The Colombian singer has just announced two new dates in the capital - October 10 and 11 - due to the high demand during the pre-sale and general sale happening today. This brings the total number of concerts to 11, one more than what Bad Bunny has planned for June at the Metropolitano Stadium, although the Puerto Rican artist has two extra dates for his tour in Barcelona.
These new dates for Shakira's residency at the Iberdrola Music venue in the capital are added to the nine previously announced: September 18, 19, 20, 25, 26, and 27 and October 2, 3, and 4. At each concert, the Colombian singer will be the main feature of the Es Latina experience that will last twelve hours, from noon until midnight on the day the show ends. This experience will include gastronomy, exhibitions, dance academies, spaces for children overseen by the singer's own sons, Milan and Sasha...
The announcement of these two new dates comes just hours after the tickets for the first nine concerts went on sale and sold out within that time frame. The tickets will go on sale today starting at 2 p.m. on the Live Nation, Ticketmaster, and El Corte Inglés websites. If they sell out, as is expected, it would mean that the artist has sold around 550,000 tickets, just 50,000 short of the record set by Bad Bunny for the entire national territory. But these may not be the last dates that the singer announces for her only concert series in Europe as part of the Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran tour.
Last Monday, the event promoters revealed one of the big mysteries surrounding Shakira's residency in Madrid: the stadium that the singer announced. It will be a four-hectare stage built for the occasion with central and side metal stands; with a capacity for 50,000 people, around 20,000 in the standing area and another 30,000 in the stands, and with an immersive screen system brought from China that has never been installed in Europe to enhance the sound and make it enveloping. In addition to that, there will be other activities at the venue, which has been named Macondo Park, that could increase the capacity to 65,000 people.
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 is in addition to Bad Bunny's 10 scheduled dates at the Metropolitano Stadium or Karol G's four nights in July 2024 at the Santiago Bernabéu 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 during the early editions of Mad Cool held there and also during Harry Styles' concerts with attendees facing long queues and heat strokes.
The president of Live Nation in Spain, Pino Sagliocco, at a press conference in central Madrid, addressed the political disagreements sparked by Shakira's residency. The Government Delegate in Madrid, Francisco Martín, stated that the Iberdrola venue in Villaverde is not the optimal place to host the event after the issues experienced during Harry Styles' concerts and the early editions of Mad Cool. Sagliocco pointed out that this is a place that is "well equipped" and "in good condition," and that all administrations should be "aligned for the celebration" in a world of "too much polarization." "We are here to celebrate life, and I feel that everyone should be united," he concluded.
Before arriving in Madrid, Shakira will make one more stop in Rio de Janeiro on May 2 for the Todo Mundo No Rio concert, the mega-event organized by the city's municipality on Copacabana Beach. The Colombian singer will be the third consecutive woman to perform at this concert: in 2024, it was Madonna, 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, as reported by Billboard last January, raising over $421 million and attracting over 3.3 million spectators to her 82 concerts held in stadiums across different countries.