This Week’s Top Tours: Shakira’s Stadium Tour Launch Earns top Debut On Artist Power Index

Shakira debuts at No. 3 on the Artist Power Index following the opening night performance of her “Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour” on Feb. 11 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The first concert on the long-awaited tour, held at Estádio Olímpico Nilton Santos, was the first of two Brazilian performances on the trek. More stadium dates will follow in Peru, Colombia, Chile and Argentina before she heads to North America for the remainder of the 2025 tour.

Mexico will host the Colombian singer at stadiums in three cities during March, including a mammoth seven-night run at Mexico City’s Estadio GNP Seguros. Then, in the U.S. and Canada, she will play both stadiums and arenas, although originally it was planned solely as an arena trek with a launch in November 2024. A month prior to that, however, the tour was postponed until this year and reconfigured as a stadium event in select markets.

The tour supports the Latin pop star’s 12th studio album of the same name that was released in March of last year and ultimately won the Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album earlier this month. It is her first world tour since 2018’s “El Dorado” trek that was set in arenas and stadiums in Europe and the Americas.
Following the opening stretch of shows in Latin American markets, Shakira will kick off her run through the U.S. and Canada on May 13 at Charlotte, North Carolina’s Bank of America Stadium. Then, the tour will wrap on the West Coast with a final stop at San Francisco’s Oracle Park on June 30.

Also with a debut appearance on the Artist Power Index is Gracie Abrams who enters the ranking at No. 15 after resuming “The Secret of Us Tour” that began last September with an opening stretch of theater dates in U.S. cities through mid-October. Boxoffice reports show that she averaged 5,788 sold tickets per concert last fall, with a gross average totaling $378,202.

This year she began a European leg of the tour with a two-show engagement Feb. 8-9 at the 14,000-seat Palacio Vistalegre in Madrid, Spain. Treks through Asia and Oceania are booked through May with second legs in both Europe and North America following during the summer months.

LIVE75 features a two-position jump to No. 1 by New York DJ Anyma who claims the top ranking with his average of 17,329 sold tickets per concert from eight performances at Sphere in Las Vegas. He sold a total of 138,632 tickets and grossed more than $21 million at the venue between Dec. 27 and Jan. 11. Also with an upward move, Eagles’ No. 2 ranking is based on tickets sold at six Sphere performances in December and January that grossed $28.2 million. The six-show gross average of $4.7 million is the highest among all 75 ranked touring artists on the chart.

Slipknot enters LIVE75 at No. 3 as the highest-ranked headliner making a debut on the chart. The heavy metal band averaged 15,217 tickets per show at three concerts on the European leg of the “Here Comes the Pain Tour” during November and December. It followed the opening North American leg of the tour in August and September. The group celebrated the 25th anniversary of their 1999 debut studio album throughout 2024.

Boxoffice results were reported from Slipknot concerts at three European venues during December including Accor Arena in Paris where 15,655 tickets were sold for a gross total of $925,394. Then, arena dates in two cities in the U.K. featured sold-ticket totals of 11,950 at First Direct Arena in Leeds and 18,047 at Co-op Live in Manchester. The grosses in those venues reached $1.11 million and $1.63 million, respectively.

The trek through Europe began in Amsterdam with a performance on Dec. 5 at Ziggo Dome and continued throughout the month. The final stop was a two-night stint, Dec. 20-21, at The O2 in London.