Ritmo Latino: Bad Bunny, Peso Pluma, Shakira Tours Bolster Mid-Year Chart

Latin music has had its moments—the success of Carlos Santana’s Supernatural, Daddy Yankee releasing “Gasolina” and Luis Fonsi’s record-shattering global hit “Despacito,” to name a few—but not like this. In February, a Spanish-language album claimed the highly coveted Grammy for Album of the Year honor the first time ever and the Super Bowl Halftime Show was headlined by a Latin act with little English spoken throughout the 13-minute set.

Megastar Bad Bunny was responsible for both watershed moments, and it shouldn’t surprise anyone that he also sits atop Pollstar’s 2026 Mid-Year Top 100 Tour Artists chart with his “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS World Tour” grossing $225,160,693 across 27 shows. He’s the only artist on the chart to reach seven figures, and those figures made him the fastest artist to reach $1 billion in career grosses (see page 8).

The kaleidoscope that is Latin music is well represented on the chart, with música Mexicana star Peso Pluma’s “Dinastía” trek settling at No. 11 with a total gross of $58.4 million off 475,361 tickets.

Shakira continues to extend her successful “Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour,” which is No. 20 on the chart with $45,375,307 and is the highest-grossing trek by a female Latin solo act.

Other Latin stars on the chart include Romeo Santos and Prince Santos (No. 33), Chayanne (37), Ricardo Arjona (42), Los Bukis (47), Rosalía (48), Anuel AA (52), Laura Pausini (59) and Jorge Medina and Josi Cuen (69).

In total, there are 11 Latin acts, and though it’s two less than the amount in 2025’s Mid-Year chart, Latino representation will likely spike at the end of the year with Pollstar mainstays like Karol G, Carín León, Don Omar, Fuerza Regida, Grupo Frontera, Kali Uchis, Mon Laferte and Marco Antonio Solís hitting the road soon.

What artists like Bad Bunny, Peso Pluma and Shakira are accomplishing is nothing short of remarkable, considering the challenges that come with Latin touring, especially in the U.S., but the most impressive takeaway from the Mid-Year charts is in the stadiums list.

A whopping 40% of the venues on the Mid-Year Top 50 Stadiums Tickets chart are from Latin America. Mexico City’s Estadio GNP Seguros is, of course, still the king of stadiums, and it’s not even close, reporting $217,569,143 in grosses off 1,654,367 tickets.

The top five on the tickets chart are rounded out by other LATAM venues: Estadio Mâs Monumental in Buenos Aires, Mexico City’s Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, Estadio Nacional Julio Martínez Prádanos in Santiago and São Paulo’s MorumBIS.

Bad Bunny is partly responsible for the stadium boom in LATAM, but there’s a reason Live Nation has made many moves in countries like Colombia, Peru and Chile. Artists are realizing what many in the rock genre have known for decades: fans in LATAM are among the most passionate in the world, and they’re likely to attend more shows than the average music aficionado.

Social media and streaming platforms have evolved LATAM fans and expanded their musical palate. The long-haired rockero with floor tickets to My Chemical Romance might show up at the same venue the following week to watch Kendrick Lamar or Ed Sheeran, and that wasn’t the case 20 years ago.

Such trends could not only make 2026 the year of Latin music with Bad Bunny and Karol G dominating the box office but also the year of Latin American stadiums, making it yet another landmark moment for the Latin music industry.