Shakira’s Recent Tour Is Named Highest Grossing Latin Tour by a Woman

It seems Shakira’s hips aren’t the only things that don’t lie — her show numbers don’t either.

Billboard announced on Monday, November 3, that Shakira, 48, was being named as Billboard’s Global Touring Icon. The Grammy award-winning performer is currently on her record-breaking Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran stadium tour, which began in April 2024. The tour has earned the title for highest-grossing Latin tour by a woman and is also the second highest-grossing Latin tour, “but is quickly looking like it will take over that title by the end of the December dates,” according to a press release.

Marty Hom, Shakira’s tour director, presented her with the award. “We get to witness every day how hard you work to do the best show possible for all your fans,” Hom said, as reported by Billboard.

“It’s encouraging and inspiring,” Shakira said to Hom, per Billboard. “I never thought, not even in my wildest dreams, that I would fill every stadium. It’s incredible and motivating at the same time, I feel like I’m just starting my career, and it’s crazy because it’s been 30 years … This has been the best tour of my life, it’s been just as we dreamt it. We worked so hard, overcoming every obstacle, it hasn’t been easy, we worked many, many long hours to make everything as good as people deserve it.”

The Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran Tour, which aligned with her album of the same name, will conclude in December, with an outstanding 82 shows in the course of its run.“Sixty-four of the dates have boasted over 327.4 million in revenue and have sold over 2.5 million tickets,” according to a press release.

The Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran album quickly rose to No.  on Billboard’s Top Latin Albums and Latin Pop Albums charts.

The tour’s memorable shows include her 12-show run in Mexico City’s Estadio GNP Seguros, which made history as the most shows a tour has ever played at the legendary venue. The Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran Tour sold “65,000 tickets per night for a total of 780,000 tickets,” according to a press release.

The “Hips Don’t Lie” singer recently recognized another historic moment happening, with a fellow Latin singer that has caused quite an unexpected stir. It was announced in late September that Bad Bunny was chosen as the Apple Music halftime show performer for Super Bowl LX on Sunday, February 8, 2026. Bad Bunny, 31, has received backlash for announcing that the show would be performed in Spanish.

“It’s about time!” Shakira told Variety in an interview published on October 21. “I remember when we did ours that even having part of our set in Spanish was a bold move. … Acceptance of Spanish-language music as part of the mainstream has come so far from when I started. I hope and like to think that all the times my music was met with resistance or puzzlement from the English-speaking world before it was embraced, helped forge the path to where we are now.”

Shakira and Jennifer Lopez performed together at the Super Bowl LIV halftime, where Shakira sang two of her biggest hits, “She Wolf” and “Whenever, Whenever.” Bad Bunny joined her on stage to perform Spanish-speaking hits like “Chantaje.”

Bad Bunny’s performance at the upcoming halftime show will mark the first time a Latin male artist has headlined the show.