Not Crying All The Way To The Boxoffice: Shakira Claims No. 5 Worldwide Top Tour

The “She Wolf” otherwise known as Shakira ruled just about every territory she roamed this year with her “Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour,” setting records across South American venues, Mexico and several states in the U.S.

The tour in support of her 12th studio album (which translates to “Women No Longer Cry”) marked the Latin superstar’s first trek in seven years, since the “El Dorado World Tour.”
With a total of $320 million earned over the chart period, Shakira ranked No. 5 on Pollstar’s 2025 Year-End Worldwide Top Touring Artists chart when comparing grosses – but No. 2 when looking at tickets sales with 2,476,105 behind Coldplay’s total of 2,918,405). She sold an average of 38,689 tickets per show with a relatively affordable average ticket price of $129.32 and an average gross per show of roughly $5 million, based on 64 shows.

In late 2024, Shakira made headlines by upgrading the majority of the North American dates of her “Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour” from arenas to stadiums, with the rescheduled dates kicking off on May 13 at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte. Live Nation noted that the tour was moved “due to unprecedented fan demand” and that the trek would feature production changes to accommodate the larger venues.

The successful Latin American leg launched Feb. 11 at Estadio Nilton Santos in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, four months after an onsale that saw Shakira sell nearly 700,000 tickets in just a few hours with 13 sold-out stadiums and more than 2 million fans registered for ticket notifications.

Milestones on the tour included a stop in Shakira’s hometown of Barranquilla, Colombia, where she has not performed in 19 years. The two nights at Estadio Metropolitano, Feb. 20-21, sold 97,782 tickets and grossed $11.6 million. Along with multiple nights – and venue records set – in Brazil and Colombia, the tour also included stops in Peru, Chile and Argentina.

She’s repped by Keith Sarkisian, Rob Markus and Ashley Gonzalez of WME worldwide and managed by Nadine Eliya, who is the CEO of Versatile Creative. Eliya spoke to Pollstar earlier this year when she was interviewed as the cover honoree for Pollstar’s Impact 50.

Reflecting on the Latin American leg, Eliya says, “There was a lot of talk about whether we should change the production to make it easier to get around, and she was really adamant and unyielding about the fact that she wanted her fans everywhere to see the same show. It was hard. There was a lot of learning, it’s grueling, it’s expensive and something not done by most artists.”

She added, “As hard as it was, I’m glad that we did it because it has changed the way Latin America is looked at in terms of a region to tour in and the live music scene.”
The show embraced the themes of Shakira’s latest album via transformation and female empowerment while celebrating the massive success of her more than three-decade career. Shakira’s performance was enhanced with a massive 147-by-29-foot screen, an 82-foot catwalk and, naturally, a 40-foot inflatable wolf.

This spring, Shakira became the first artist to perform seven consecutive shows at Mexico City’s Estadio GNP Seguros, with the sold-out run drawing about 455,000 fans and boosting the local economy. Shakira returned in August and September for five more performances. Highlights in the U.S. included becoming the first Latin act to headline a concert and just the second woman (after Beyoncé in 2023) at Charlotte’s Bank of America Stadium, and the first artist to ever headline a concert at Valley Children’s Stadium in Fresno, California.