Luis Miguel earns highest-grossing Latin tour

Veteran singer Luis Miguel has claimed the highest-grossing tour among Latin acts, unseating previous record holder Bad Bunny.

The ongoing Luis Miguel Tour grossed US$318.2 million and sold 2.2 million tickets in its first 146 shows, according to Billboard.

This puts the Mexican artist, who first rose to fame in the 1980s, above Bad Bunny’s World’s Hottest Tour ($314.1m) and Karol G’s Manana Sera Bonito Tour ($313.3m).

Miguel’s tour kicked off last summer with 10 shows at Buenos Aires’ Movistar Arena, and then another 10 at the venue of the same name in Santiago, Chile.

Those 20 dates brought in a combined $28.1m and sold 227,000 tickets, already establishing it as the third-highest-grossing outing of his career.

Since then the 54-year-old has visited the US and Latin America twice and Spain once. In his native Mexico, Miguel earned $57.5m in 20 shows.

The ongoing Luis Miguel Tour grossed US$318.2 million and sold 2.2 million tickets in its first 146 shows

By the end of 2023, he had performed 66 shows to 900,000 fans which brought in $141m and charted as his biggest tour yet.

In the early months of 2024, the singer added another $73m in stadiums across Latin America and another $65.6m in North American arenas through mid-June.

Twelve shows in Spain earned $27.6m, and his return to Central America in August padded the tour with another $10.7m in five shows.

The Luis Miguel Tour, produced by Fenix Entertainment, Cárdenas Marketing Network (CMN) and Iglesias Entertainment, is the singer’s first global trek in five years.

The tour is currently re-visiting Mexico, with 29 dates left including a 10-show run at Mexico City’s Arena Ciudad de Mexico between 8-24 October.

His previous tour, Mexico Por Siempre Tour (2018-19), grossed $101.4m and sold 965,000 tickets.

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