Live Nation EMEA president John Reid has hailed the global growth of Latin music after witnessing “phenomenal demand” for the European leg of Bad Bunny’s 2026 Debí Tirar Más Fotos Tour.

The Puerto Rican rapper has sold out 25 European stadiums, with 600,000 tickets moved in Spain alone for his ten sold out nights at Madrid’s Riyadh Air Metropolitano (30 May-15 June) and two dates at Barcelona’s Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys (22-23 May).

Presented by Live Nation and Rimas Nation, the expanded tour will kick off in November 2025 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and will travel through Costa Rica, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Australia and Japan.

It arrives in Europe next spring for shows in Spain, Portugal, Germany, Netherlands, the UK, France, Sweden, Poland and Italy, before wrapping in Belgium on 22 July next year.

“The response in Spain has been beyond anything seen before”

“We saw phenomenal demand for Bad Bunny last week – with 25 stadiums sold out across Europe and the UK already,” Reid tells IQ. “The response in Spain has been beyond anything seen before, with an unprecedented ten stadium shows in Madrid alone. With added dates in Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, France, Italy and the UK, you can see just how powerful and far-reaching the appeal of Latin music is right now.”

The historic outing will see Bad Bunny, real name Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, become the first Latin act to headline stadiums globally. The 31-year-old, who is managed by Noah Assad of Rimas Entertainment and booked by Jbeau Lewis of UTA, is returning to Europe for the first time since 2019 and Latin America for the first time since 2022, in addition to visiting countries such as Australia, Brazil and Japan for the first time ever.

Puerto Rican ticketing firm Ticketera recently earned a Guinness World Record for its role in Bad Bunny’s No Me Quiero Ir de Aquí homecoming residency at San Juan’s 19,500-cap José Miguel Agrelot Coliseum. The company distributed more than 21,000 unique promo codes in just eight hours for the rapper’s 30-date run between 11 July and 14 September this year.

The first nine shows were exclusively reserved for Puerto Rico residents, leading Ticketera to implement an in-person distribution model. Thousands of physical cards containing unique promotional codes were handed out across nine locations on the island after verifying each person’s residency. Only those who received a card were then able to access the online sale. More than 400,000 tickets have been sold for the stint overall.

Colombian superstar Karol G scored the largest Latin music European tour to date last year

Last year meanwhile, fellow Latin superstar Karol G scored the largest Latin music European tour to date with her Mañana Será Bonito Europe Summer Tour.

The Colombian singer’s trek included sold out days in ten cities, seeing her play two nights respectively at Amsterdam’s Ziggo Dome in the Netherlands, London’s The O2 in the UK, Paris’s Accor Arena in France, Milan’s Mediolanum Forum in Italy and Lisbon’s MEO Arena in Portugal.

She closed the run with four stadium performances at Madrid’s Estadio Santiago Bernabéu (85,000), which saw her crowned as the first artist to fully sell out four consecutive nights at the Spanish stadium.

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Chappell Roan has cancelled her upcoming headline dates in France and the Netherlands at short notice, citing “scheduling conflicts”.

The American singer-songwriter was set to perform at Le Bataclan in Paris on 3 September and Melkweg Amsterdam on 4 September as part of the European leg of her Midwest Princess Tour.

Roan’s concert in Berlin, Germany, which was originally slated for Columbiahalle on 31 August, will now take place at the city’s Velodrom on 23 September. Additional tickets go on sale tomorrow (30 August).

“Due to scheduling conflicts, I have had to make the extremely hard decision to cancel my Paris and Amsterdam shows,” she writes on social media. “I have rescheduled my Berlin show to 23 September. I am so sorry and very disappointed. I promise I will be back. I’m heartbroken. Thank you for understanding.”

The 26-year-old’s UK & Ireland shows in September will still go ahead as planned

The 26-year-old’s UK and Ireland shows will still go ahead as planned. The run takes in Manchester Academy (13 September), O2 Academy Glasgow (15 September), Dublin’s Olympia Theatre (17 September) and three nights at O2 Academy Brixton (19-21 September).

She will also star at All Things Go, an independent US festival renowned for its female-dominated lineups, in Forest Hills, New York (28 September) and Columbia, Maryland (29 September). She will also appear at Austin City Limits festival in October.

Roan is represented on the live scene by Wasserman Music agents Jackie Nalpant, Kiely Mosiman, Adele Slater and Anna Bewers.

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Bob Dylan has unveiled the European leg of his 2024 Rough and Rowdy Ways World Wide Tour, with mobile phones once again banned for the dates.

The 83-year-old songwriting icon has already performed in hundreds of venues across the US, UK and Europe and Japan on the trek, which began in North America in December 2021 at Milwaukee’s Riverside Theater.

Dylan tours his native US between July and September before heading to Europe, starting off with a triple-header in the Czech Republic at Prague’s O2 Universum from 4-6 October. He will then visit Germany, France, Luxembourg and Belgium.

The use of video cameras and mobile phones will be banned for the shows

The UK leg, presented by ITB, kick off in Bournemouth at the BIC Windsor Hall on 1 November before the run heads to Liverpool, Edinburgh, Nottingham and Wolverhampton, wrapping up with three performances at London’s Royal Albert Hall from 12-14 November .

Consistent with recent Dylan tours, the use of video cameras and mobile phones will be prohibited. The shows are being held in partnership with US firm Yondr, which specialises in producing sealed phone pouches.

The full list of tour dates is below:

4 Oct: O2 Universum, Prague, Czech Republic

5 Oct: O2 Universum, Prague, Czech Republic

6 Oct: O2 Universum, Prague, Czech Republic

8 Oct: Messehalle, Erfurt, Germany

10 Oct: Uber Heats Music Hall, Berlin, Germany

11 Oct: Uber Heats Music Hall, Berlin, Germany

14 Oct: Frankenhalle, Nuremberg, Germany

16 Oct: Jahrhunderthalle, Frankfurt, Germany

17 Oct: Jahrhunderthalle, Frankfurt, Germany

21 Oct: Porsche Arena, Stuttgart, Germany

22 Oct: Saarlandhalle, Saarbrücken, Germany

24 Oct: La Seine Musicale, Paris, France

25 Oct: La Seine Musicale, Paris, France

27 Oct: Mitsubishi Electric Hall, Dusseldorf, Germany

28 Oct: Rockhal, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg

29 Oct: Lotto Arena, Antwerp, Belgium

1 Nov: BIC Windsor Hall, Bournemouth, UK

3 Nov: M&S Bank Arena, Liverpool, UK

5 Nov: Usher Hall, Edinburgh, UK

6 Nov: Usher Hall, Edinburgh, UK

8 Nov: Motorpoint Arena, Nottingham, UK

9 Nov: The Civic Hall, Wolverhampton, UK

10 Nov: The Civic Hall, Wolverhampton, UK

12 Nov: Royal Albert Hall, London, UK

13 Nov: Royal Albert Hall, London, UK

14 Nov: Royal Albert Hall, London, UK

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Ed Sheeran has added extra tour dates to his 2025 European +–=÷× (Mathematics) Tour after selling more than 600,000 tickets in an hour.

Due to demand, promoter FKP Scorpio has announced second nights in Germany at Stuttgart’s MHP Arena (28 June), Volksparkstadion in Hamburg (7 July) and Merkur Spiel-Arena, Dusseldorf (6 September), as well as in Norway at Oslo’s Ullevaal Stadion (27 July), in Belgium at Antwerp’s Middenvijver Park (7 August) and in Sweden at Strawberry Arena, Stockholm.

Sheeran will set a new concert attendance record with his Norway gigs, with 36,000 fans set to flock to the stadium per night. It has previously hosted up to 31,000 fans. FKP Scorpio Norway’s Tim Salvesen says that organisers have been “overwhelmed” by the response since come since last Friday’s announcement.

“In collaboration with Ed Sheeran’s team and with good help from Ullevaal Stadium, we are really happy to be able to put on another concert next summer,” Salvesen tells VartOslo.

Sheeran will also perform a second show in Zurich at Stadion Letzigrund on 3 August in cooperation with All Blues/TAKK, and a third date at Copenhagen’s Øresundsparken in Denmark on 31 August with Smash!Bang!Pow!

The Mathematics Tour was the seventh highest-grossing tour of 2023, according to Pollstar

Held in support of the singer-songwriter’s = (2021) and – (2023) albums, the 131-date tour launched in Ireland at Croke Park, Dublin in April 2022. The trek was the seventh highest-grossing tour of 2023, according to Pollstar, garnering $268 million from 2.5 million attendees.

“In 2025, Mathematics Tour comes to an end,” said Sheeran in an Instagram post last week. “Gonna be hitting most of the other places we haven’t been to yet, but the first dates to go up will be the rest of Europe, more to follow.”

Local independent promoters recently spoke to IQ about how they are breaking ground in their markets with record ticket sales for Sheeran’s 2024 European dates.

Sheeran is represented by agents Marty Diamond and Ash Lewis at Wasserman for US and Canada, and Jon Ollier at One Finiix Live for the rest of the world.

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Ed Sheeran’s +–=÷× (Mathematics) Tour will officially extend to a fourth year after the star confirmed a final slate of 2025 European stadium dates.

The singer-songwriter, who is represented by Jon Ollier of One Fiinix Live outside North America, will play shows in Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Poland and Denmark next year.

The run is currently due to start at Civitas Metropolitano in Madrid on 30 May and conclude in Dusseldorf’s Merkur Spiel-Arena on 5 September, with further announcements to follow. Tickets go on general sale on Wednesday (10 July).

Sheeran also has upcoming 2024 concerts at Polsat Plus Arena in Gdansk, Poland (12-13 July), Puskás Aréna in Budapest, Hungary (20 July), Park 360 in Hradec Kralove, Czechia (27-28 July), Darius and Girėnas Stadium in Kaunas, Lithuania (3-4 August) and the Hipodrom in Zagreb, Croatia (10 August).

“In 2025, Mathematics Tour comes to an end. Gonna be hitting most of the other places we haven’t been to yet”

In addition, he will perform at Austria’s Frequency Festival (14 August), Ušće Park in Belgrade, Serbia (17 August), Romania’s National Arena in Bucharest (24 August), Vasil Levski Stadium in Sofia, Bulgaria (31 August) and Land of Tomorrow in Larnaca Bay, Cyprus (7-8 September), as well as headlining Brazil’s Rock in Rio on 19 September.

“In 2025, Mathematics Tour comes to an end,” says Sheeran in an Instagram post. “Gonna be hitting most of the other places we haven’t been to yet, but the first dates to go up will be the rest of Europe, more to follow.”

Held in support of Sheeran’s = (2021) and – (2023) albums, the 131-date Mathematics Tour launched in Ireland at Croke Park, Dublin in April 2022. The trek was seventh highest-grossing tour of 2023, according to Pollstar, garnering $268 million from 2.5 million attendees.

Last month, the 33-year-old set a new record in Malta for the largest-ever paid-for concert, with 35,000 fans flocking to Ta’ Qali National Park in Attard – his first-ever performance in the country. Local independent promoters in Bulgaria and Latvia also spoke to IQ about how the tour is breaking ground in their markets.

The full list of 2025 tour dates is as follows:

30 May: Cívitas Metropolitano, Madrid, Spain
6 June: Orange Vélodrome Stadium, Marseille, France
14 June: TBA, Italy, Rome
20 June: Decathlon Arena – Stade Pierre Mauroy, Lille, France
29 June: MHPArena, Stuttgart, Germany
5 July: Volksparkstadion, Hamburg, Germany
26 July: Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo, Norway
2 August: Stadion Letzigrund, Zürich, Switzerland
8 August: Middenvijver Park, Antwerp, Belgium
16 August: Tarczyński Arena, Wroclaw, Poland
23 August: Strawberry Arena, Stockholm, Sweden
29-30 August: Øresundsparken, Copenhagen, Denmark
5 September: Merkur Spiel-Arena, Dusseldorf, Germany

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Days after closing the Park Stage at Glastonbury, London Grammar have unveiled their biggest tour to date.

The British trio will headline UK arenas for this first time this autumn, visiting the OVO Hydro in Glasgow (11 November), AO Arena in Manchester (12 November) and concluding at The O2 in London on 14 November.

The concerts will immediately follow a run of recently announced EU shows, featuring stops at venues in France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany. The band are also set to headline Latitude Festival on 27 July.

London Grammar recently performed their first live show back as part of Radio 1’s Big Weekend. The latest announcement comes on the heels of the group topping the bill on Glastonbury’s Park Stage on Sunday (30 June), where they reportedly attracted one of the biggest crowds the stage has ever seen.

The group, who release their fourth studio album The Greatest Love in September, are represented by Wasserman Music’s Marty Diamond, Ash Mowry, Alex Hardee and Michael Harvey-Bray.

Their full list of tour dates is as follows:

31 October: Zenith Paris, France
1 November: Forest National, Brussels, Belgium
3 November: Ziggo Dome Amsterdam, Netherlands
5 November: Jahrhunderthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
7 November: UFO Velodrome, Berlin, Germany
11 November: OVO Hydro, Glasgow, UK
12 November: AO Arena, Manchester, UK
14 November: The O2, London, UK

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After shattering attendance and revenue records in the US and Latin America, Karol G has continued to make history – this time in Europe.

The Colombian singer’s Mañana Será Bonito Europe Summer Tour has become the largest Latin music European tour ever, according to promoter Live Nation.

The trek includes sold out days in 10 cities, and sees her play two nights respectively at Amsterdam’s Ziggo Dome in the Netherlands, London’s The O2 in the UK, Paris’s Accor Arena in France, Milan’s Mediolanum Forum in Italy and Lisbon’s MEO Arena in Portugal.

“We haven’t seen a Latin artist sell tickets of this magnitude in both speed and number of tickets,” Hans Schafer, Live Nation’s SVP of global touring, tells Pollstar. “The trend is that the landscape has shifted. You’re seeing [Latin] culture sort of infuse itself in the cities at all different levels, and all those things are that canary we’re following and looking for that opportunity where we can try some things out.”

She closes the run with four stadium performances at Madrid’s Estadio Santiago Bernabéu (85,000) from 20-23 July. G is the first artist to fully sell out four consecutive nights at the Spanish stadium.

Among other milestones, the 33-year-old is now the first Latin artist to perform twice as part of the same tour at the Ziggo Dome, the Latin artist who sold the most tickets and the fastest sell-out in London, the first Latin artist to perform twice at the Accor Arena and the top-selling Latin female artist at the Meo Arena. She will also be the first female artist to hold four consecutive stadium concerts in Spain.

“People are coming to the party of Karol G who may not even speak a lick of Spanish. They’re inspired by who she is and what she’s about”

Karol G is represented worldwide by UTA’s Jbeau Lewis, Jules de Lattre and Tom Matthews, and managed by Noah Assad of Rimas Entertainment.

“Karol is an indisputable global superstar,” adds Lewis. “One of hers and our goals is to use this platform she has to take Latin music around the world. People are coming to the party of Karol G who may not even speak a lick of Spanish. They’re inspired by who she is and what she’s about.”

The reggaeton star sold more than one million tickets during the Latin American leg of her Mañana Será Bonito Tour, smashing several records across numerous LatAm countries.

Beginning the tour in Mexico in February, the Grammy Award winner became the first female Latin artist to sell out three nights at Mexico City’s Azteca Stadium (cap. 87,523). She went on to do two nights in Guatemala, where she sold the most tickets for any international artist in the country, and broke Coldplay’s record by selling 104,686 tickets over two nights at Costa Rica’s national stadium.

G also became the first female artist to sell out two nights at the Dominican Republic’s Olympic Stadium (60,000) and three shows at Chile’s national stadium (60,000). She’s the only artist to sell out two nights at Venezuela’s Estadio Monumental (84,567) and became the fastest Latin female artist to sell out two stadium shows in Argentina with her two Estadio Vélez Sarsfield (49,540) performances.

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Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band have cancelled four dates on their European stadium outing due to “vocal issues”.

The Boss was scheduled to perform at Orange Vélodrome in Marseille on Saturday (25 May), but the gig was postponed at the last minute because of the vocal issues, citing “doctor’s direction”.

“Further examination and consulting has led doctors to determine that Bruce should not perform for the next ten days,” Springsteen’s official social media accounts said in a statement Sunday.

“Bruce is recuperating comfortably, and he and the E Street Band look forward to resuming their European stadium tour”

In addition to the Marseille gig, the impacted concerts include a 28 May show in Prague and a pair of dates, 1 and 3 June, at Milan’s San Siro Stadium.

Following the Milan concerts, Springsteen and the E Street Band had a prescheduled week-long break between shows, which will hopefully provide enough time for the singer to recuperate until the tour resumes on 12 June in Madrid.

“New dates for these shows will be announced shortly,” the statement continued. “Those wishing a refund will be able to obtain it at their original point of purchase. Bruce is recuperating comfortably, and he and the E Street Band look forward to resuming their hugely successful European stadium tour on June 12 in Madrid at the magnificent Civitas Metropolitan.”

Springsteen’s 20-plus date European stadium run with The E Street Band kicked off in the UK at Principality Stadium in Cardiff, Wales on 5 May, and will finish at London’s Wembley Stadium on 25 & 27 July. It will also take in France, Czechia, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Denmark, Finland, Sweden and Norway.

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Travis Scott has extended his 2024 European tour after the first batch of arena and stadium concerts sold out after going on sale last Friday (10 May).

The Texan rapper, who is represented by WME’s James Rubin, has sold out German venues such as the 43,661-capacity Rhein Energie Stadion in Cologne (20 July) and the 48,300-capacity Deutsche Bank Park in Frankfurt (27 July) as part of the Live Nation-promoted run, which initially ran to 12 shows.

The European leg of the UTOPIA – Circus Maximus World Tour will also feature his largest-ever UK headline show – a 48,256-cap date at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London.

New dates include stops at WiZink Arena in Madrid, Spain (30 July) and MEO Arena in Lisbon, Portugal (2 August), as well as second shows at Arnhem’s GelreDome in the Netherlands (30 June) and in Frankfurt on 26 July. Tickets for the additional concerts go on sale this Friday 17 May.

From every ticket sold, €1/£1 will go to Scott’s Cactus Jack Foundation, which aims to uplift Houston youth through toy drives, scholarship programmes to HBCU college students, and fulfilling expenses for education and creative endeavours.

The 33-year-old’s 2023 North American UTOPIA – Circus Maximus Tour drew 525,255 fans to gross US$71,228,692 at the box office.

Last week, it was announced that nine of the 10 wrongful death lawsuits filed against Scott and other parties over the 2021 Astroworld disaster have been settled.

The revised list of 2024 tour dates is as follows:

Friday, 28 June: Netherlands, Arnhem – GelreDome
Sunday, 30 June: Arnhem, Netherlands – GelreDome – NEW DATE
Tuesday, 2 July: Poland, Krakow – TAURON Arena
Thursday, 5 July: Switzerland, Zurich – Hallenstadion
Saturday, 6 July: France, Nice – Allianz Riviera
Monday, 8 July: Belgium, Antwerp – Sportpaleis
Thursday, 11 July: UK, London – Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
Saturday, 13 July: UK, Manchester – Co-op Live
Tuesday, 16 July: Germany, Hamburg – Barclays Arena
Thursday, 18 July: Czech Republic, Prague – O2 Arena
Saturday, 20 July: Germany, Cologne – RheinEnergieSTADION
Tuesday, 23 July: Italy, Milan – Ippodromo SNAI La Maura
Friday, 26 July: Frankfurt, Germany – Deutsche Bank Park – NEW DATE
Saturday, 27 July: Germany, Frankfurt – Deutsche Bank Park
Tuesday, 30 July: Madrid, Spain – WiZink Center – NEW DATE
Friday, 2 August: Lisbon, Portugal – MEO Arena – NEW DATE

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Travis Scott has unveiled the European leg of his UTOPIA – Circus Maximus Tour, including his biggest UK headline show to date.

The Houston rapper will play 12 arena and stadium dates across Europe, starting in the Netherlands at Arnhem’s GelreDome on 28 June and concluding in Germany at Frankfurt’s Deutsche Bank Park on 27 July.

The month-long stint includes two dates in the UK – an 11 July show in London at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium (cap. 62,850) and a 13 July gig at Manchester’s new Co-op Live (23,500). It will also make stops in Poland, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Italy and the Czechia. Tickets go on sale on Friday 10 May.

From every ticket sold, €1/£1 will go to Scott’s Cactus Jack Foundation, which aims to uplift Houston youth through toy drives, scholarship programs to HBCU college students, and fulfilling expenses for education and creative endeavours.

The 33-year-old’s 2023 North American UTOPIA – Circus Maximus Tour was attended by 525,255 fans, generating US$71,228,692.

The first civil trial for Scott, Live Nation and others over their role in the 2021 disaster at the Astroworld music festival was delayed last week. A trial had been set to start yesterday (May 6) but proceedings have now been pushed back indefinitely due to an unresolved battle over whether Apple Inc., which filmed Scott’s Astroworld performance for an exclusive livestream, should be involved in the case.

Scott’s full list of 2024 tour dates is as follows:
Friday, 28 June: Netherlands, Arnhem GelreDome
Tuesday, 2 July: Poland, Krakow TAURON Arena
Thursday, 4 July: Switzerland, Zurich Hallenstadion
Saturday, 6 July: France, Nice Allianz Riviera
Monday, 8 July: Belgium, Antwerp Sportpaleis
Thursday, 11 July: UK, London Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
Saturday, 13 July: UK, Manchester Co-op Live
Tuesday, 16 July: Germany, Hamburg Barclays Arena
Thursday, 18 July: Czech Republic, Prague O2 Arena
Saturday, 20 July: Germany, Cologne RheinEnergieSTADION
Tuesday, 23 July: Italy, Milan Ippodromo SNAI La Maura
Saturday, 27 July: Germany, Frankfurt Deutsche Bank Park

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