The year Shakira danced with her past and conquered the present.
Bogotá, Dec 23 (EFE)
Box office records, full stadiums and international recognition marked 2025 for Shakira, one of the most decisive years of her career, in which she confirmed that her impact transcends music and is ratified as a cultural, economic and generational phenomenon.
At 48, the Colombian singer once again placed herself at the center of global Latin pop with ‘Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour’, her first tour in seven years and the most ambitious of her career.
The show, which began in Rio de Janeiro on February 11, became the most successful Latin tour of 2025 and an emotional journey through more than three decades of career.
Unlike other large-scale tours, such as those of Taylor Swift or Beyoncé, structured as a succession of closed acts, Shakira’s show, which lasts about two and a half hours, functions as a continuous narrative, where the songs converse with each other and with the artist’s personal history.
A tour as a personal narrative
From ‘Antología’ to ‘Soltera’, Shakira alternated on stage the anthems that took her to stardom with songs that marked her most recent stage, marked by resilience, breakups and personal reinvention.
Each concert functioned as a moving autobiographical story, with an artist who dances, sings, and dialogues with her audience without losing the narrative pulse.
The tour, which includes almost 100 concerts in total and will conclude in February 2026, brought together more than 3.8 million spectators in America by mid-December, according to a report from his team accessed by EFE.
In countries like Colombia, Mexico, Ecuador, and Chile, her performances not only sold out stadiums, but also became national events, with entire cities turning out to welcome the artist who transformed her personal story into a collective message.
From the stage to the city
In Colombia, Shakira achieved an unprecedented milestone by selling out tickets simultaneously in Bogotá, Barranquilla, Medellín and Cali.
According to the Mayor’s Office of Bogotá, one of his concerts in the capital generated an economic impact of 17.1 million dollars and a hotel occupancy rate of over 90%, while in his native Barranquilla his visit had a measurable effect even on the city’s quarterly GDP.
In Mexico, where she gave twelve concerts in the capital before 780,000 people, the artist announced new dates for 2026 and described this leg as the biggest she has ever done in that country.
In Ecuador, his three concerts in Quito brought together more than 105,000 attendees and were described by local authorities as the biggest musical event in the nation’s history.
Awards and legacy
2025 was also a year of artistic celebrations. Shakira won the Grammy for Best Latin Pop Album, the fourth of her career, and commemorated the 20th anniversary of ‘Hips Don’t Lie’, one of the songs that defined global pop in the 2000s.
The song underwent a reinterpretation with British artist Ed Sheeran and Colombian artist Beéle, in a gesture that connected generations and once again placed Barranquilla as the starting point of its musical identity.
“It’s beautiful to see how these songs continue to live on in new generations,” said the artist, whose compositions have accumulated more than 6.1 billion global streams.
In 2025, she also became the first woman to have songs with more than 100 million plays in four different decades.
Offstage, Shakira expanded her business profile with the international expansion of Isima, her hair care brand, which reached Europe and exceeded 1,500 points of sale, and closed a personal chapter with the sale of the mansion she shared with her ex-husband, footballer Gerard Piqué, on the outskirts of Barcelona.
Recognized by Billboard as the best Latin pop artist of all time, Shakira closed 2025 reaffirming a rare position: that of a figure who continues to mark an era without renouncing the memory of her own path.
