Shakira adds LatAm stadium dates to world tour
Colombian superstar Shakira has added a slate of Latin America stadium dates to her Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran (Women Don’t Cry Anymore) World Tour.
The outing will be Shakira’s first since her 2018 El Dorado World Tour, which stopped at stadiums and arenas around the world.
On the Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour, produced by Live Nation, the 47-year-old will visit Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Peru and Colombia.
The 11-date leg will kick off on 11 February 2025 at Nilton Santos Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and conclude on 19 March at GNP Seguros Stadium in Mexico City, Mexico.
The stint will see Shakira deliver three stadium dates in her native Colombia at Metropolitan Stadium (Barranquilla), Atanasio Girardot Stadium (Medellin) and El Campin Stadium (Bogota), which range from 39,000 to 46,000 capacity. It will mark the first time she’s performed in her hometown of Barranquilla in 19 years.
The tour will be Shakira’s first since her 2018 El Dorado World Tour, which stopped at stadiums and arenas around the world
Before heading to Latin America, the star will kick off the North American leg of the tour on 2 November at Acrisure Arena in Palm Desert, California.
The 17-date stint will stop at arenas across the US before wrapping up on 15 December at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, Michigan.
North America and Latin America are currently the only markets confirmed for the Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour, which is in support of her LP of the same name that dropped in March – her first new album in seven years.
Following its release, the set landed at No. 1 on Billboard‘s Top Latin Albums and Latin Pop Albums chart, a feat that made her the first woman to secure No. 1 albums in four different decades. It recently scored a Latin Grammy nomination for album of the year.
Shakira is represented by WME worldwide.
Check out the full Latin American tour dates below:
Feb. 11 — Rio de Janeiro, Brazil — Nilton Santos Stadium
Feb. 13 — Sao Paulo, Brazil — MorumBIS Stadium
Feb. 16 — Lima, Peru — National Stadium
Feb. 21 — Barranquilla, Colombia — Metropolitan Stadium
Feb. 23 — Medellin, Colombia — Atanasio Girardot Stadium
Feb. 26 — Bogota, Colombia — El Campin Stadium
March 2 — Santiago, Chile — National Stadium
March 7 — Buenos Aires, Argentina — Argentine Polo Field
March 12 — Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico — BBVA Stadium
March 16 — Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico — Akron Stadium
March 19 — Mexico City, Mexico — GNP Seguros Stadium
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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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Rock in Rio’s 40th anniversary draws 730k fans
Rock in Rio bosses have given an update on the brand’s expansion plans after its 40th anniversary edition in Brazil pulled in 730,000 fans across two weekends.
Held at the Olympic Park in Rio de Janeiro, from 13-15 & 19-22 September, the festival’s headliners included Travis Scott, Imagine Dragons, Katy Perry, Ed Sheeran, Shawn Mendes, Avenged Sevenfold and Mariah Carey, as well as the likes of Evanescence, Ne-Yo, Deep Purple, Charlie Puth and Hollywood star Will Smith.
Roberta Medina, EVP of Rock World, the company behind the biennial event, trumpets the 2024 flagship as a “tribute to the ability that music and culture have to unite people in peace and harmony and to show new possibilities”.
“It was a peaceful event, where thousands of people came together, vibrating with happiness and sharing unforgettable moments,” she says.
The Brazilian festival, which will return in 2026, also upped its sustainability push – initiating a reusable cup drive for the first time in partnership with Heineken, Red Bull, Coca-Cola, Schweppes and Braskem, which encouraged conscious consumption and correct disposal.
More than 150,000 cups were collected, washed and returned for use, while 1.5 tons of cups were collected for reuse in the VIP area. Consequently, the festival avoided generating more than 14 tons of waste.
At last count, Rio-based company Comlurb had collected 288.5 tons of waste from inside Rock in Rio, of which 129.8 tons were potentially recyclable materials.
“We’re not planning international expansion at this point, but we decided to expand to the closest market to Rio – that is São Paulo”
Earlier this month, Rock in Rio founder Roberto Medina unveiled a “visionary project” to turn the area around the Rock in Rio site into the largest entertainment complex in Latin America. In partnership with financial group Genial Investimentos, the Imagine scheme will transform the Olympic Park, home to Rock in Rio Brazil since 2017, into a leisure, sports and entertainment centre.
The Rock World portfolio also includes Portugal’s Rock in Rio Lisboa, which takes place in the even years, and The Town in São Paolo, held in the odd years. It also took over the running of Lollapalooza Brazil in 2023. Rock in Rio Lisboa staged its 20th anniversary edition in June at the 80,000-cap Parque Tejo, attracting 300,000 attendees and selling out three of the four dates. Acts included Scorpions, Jonas Brothers, Doja Cat, Macklemore and Ed Sheeran.
Meanwhile, The Town (cap. 105,000-cap) launched at the Interlagos race track in September last year, headlined by Post Malone, Foo Fighters, Maroon 5 and two nights with Bruno Mars. It welcomed more than 500,000 fans over five days.
Roberto Medina discusses potential future expansion of Rock in Rio as part of a feature celebrating 40 years of the festival in the new issue of IQ.
“I think expansion in Latin America is possible, but it is not in my plans because I am now focused on Lollapalooza and The Town in São Paolo, and Rock in Rio, which makes us one of the biggest festival companies in Latin America,” he says. “This year, with the three events all put together, we made R$1.1bn, while we sold 2m tickets over the past two years. So I want to focus more on these [existing] markets where there is lots of opportunity to grow.”
Roberta Medina adds: “We’re not planning international expansion at this point, but we decided to expand to the closest market to Rio – that is São Paulo. They are both big cities, but São Paulo is very different to Rio. It’s been a conversation for a number of years to take Rock in Rio to São Paulo, but what we realised is that Rock in Rio sees 50% of our revenues coming from sponsorship and 50% from ticket sales – it’s a very different model, and we understand it’s not similar in other territories. But we can definitely grow in our own markets and become bigger in Brazil, while the new site in Lisbon allows us to concentrate on making that bigger, too.”
The full feature on 40 years of Rock in Rio appears in the issue 130 of IQ, out now.
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La Bichota: Rewriting reggaeton’s rules – Part 2
Here, IQ‘s proudly presents the second and final part of our behind the scenes feature on Latina sensation Karol G’s record-breaking Mañana Será Bonito Tour. Read part one here.
Unstoppable
And so to Europe, where Karol G has genuinely broken new ground – not only was it her first EU tour, but it was an arena tour, too – with some stadiums thrown in to bring the curtain down. Many artists and their teams would perhaps have approached their first steps in a new continent with trepidation, but not her. “We had a sense of the global opportunity at hand for Karol as soon as the USA tour launched in the summer of 2023,” says her worldwide agent, Jbeau Lewis of UTA.
“We started planning Latin America and Europe concurrently at that point, for spring and summer 2024, respectively.”
Lewis attributes the delay in hitting Europe to the desire of wanting to do things “‘right,’ as opposed to ‘right now.’” Besides, he adds, “Karol’s incredible success touring in North America and South America provided all the confidence we needed to step into arenas and stadiums in Europe. As a bona fide global star, we had no reason to think she could not be successful.”
Planning for the EU leg of the tour started in June 2023, when her team started reaching out directly to all of the arenas in markets of interest to ensure they could have complete control over the routing and to secure the best avails whilst European promoter conversations were ongoing. “Given the success of the previous US and Latin American tours, there was certainly an expectation from fans that they should get the same experience on the European shows,” says Jules de Lattre, her UTA EU agent. “European success was all about timing and pent-up demand – it made sense for Europe to take place at the high point of the Maňana Será Bonito campaign off the back of significant momentum built up in the US and Latin America.”
But the European leg was built on more than just vibes and a sense of destiny – cold, hard “significant” data was key, too, and her team were confident about the routing, the host cities, and which countries to visit. “We naturally focused on major Latin markets such as Spain, Portugal, and Italy, as well as the major European capitals with significant Spanish-speaking communities – so London, Paris, Zurich, and Amsterdam, says De Lattre. “In addition, we decided to add traditionally smaller markets in Antwerp, Cologne, and Berlin, where we expected the fans would travel to. All three cities sold out within a week, which is by far the best result of any Latin artist in these venues.”
Early planning allowed the team to hold second nights in London, Lisbon, Amsterdam, Paris, and multiple nights at the Bernabéu Stadium in Madrid. Furthermore, the plan was to announce single shows in all markets before comfortably rolling into second nights where they could see the demand was evident. As an example, in Madrid, it quickly became apparent that a second, then a third date, was more than feasible. Then a fourth. And, says De Lattre, “all indicators pointed to there being a demand for at least two more Madrid shows.”
“The incredible live content European fans were seeing from shows in North and South America really created a sense of FOMO that all marketeers seek to achieve”
But within each market, some of the city choices were, he adds, dictated by the venues they wanted to present the show in. “There was the Sportpaleis in Antwerp, the impressive Lanxess Arena in Cologne, the Forum in Milan, and the Uber Arena
demographic, particularly Spanish speakers, and driving this level of devotion and fandom. Karol and her team are extremely creative, so as De Lattre says, they have to do very little in order to amplify that content to a wider audience and convert those eyeballs into ticket sales. “The incredible live content European fans were seeing from shows in North and South America over the last year really created a sense of FOMO that all marketeers seek to achieve,” he adds.
A creatively crafted tour announcement video featuring images of every city on the tour was a big part of that. But Lewis also credits a “musicality that fans can feel regardless of language barriers and a positive and magnetic personality and message,” that “all combine to move both culture and tickets.”
The European run, however, did require a few tweaks and changes to overcome certain challenges. “For the European leg, the ImageSFX team was tasked with taking the stadium tour and paring it down to fit in Europe’s arena environment,” says Heath. “Many of the special effects cues included in the stadium run were centred on the top of the stage’s rooftop, which doesn’t exist in the arena environment. Ahead of touching down, our team needed to find creative solutions to repurpose the cues from the roof onto the stage. Pyro product was decreased in size and different flame equipment was used in order to meet both safety standards and trim heights onstage.”
Screens were also changed slightly. “The stadium legs and the European arena leg have required different looks and methods to achieve the designers’ unified vision across all legs of the tour,” says Screenworks’ Brad Reiman. “It was key to achieving the same vibe at different scales, from velodromes in Europe to massive football stadiums in the US and South America, and the shows at Madrid’s Santiago Bernabéu.”
Artist manager Giraldo comments, “For Karol, the most important thing is the experience the fans get to live during her shows, since that is what creates a real connection between her fans, her music, and herself. All of the elements (lights, music, wardrobe, video, choreography, pyro, cameras) that fans get to experience are a true representation of Karol’s essence and authenticity, since she is involved in every single detail.”
Adding to that connection, the production also hands out PixMob’s LED wristbands to fans – effectively making them part of the show’s lighting design. “As an album, Mañana Será Bonito has such eye-catching visuals that it took on a life of its own once it was released,” says PixMob’s Hila Aviran, director of tours and entertainment. “We wanted to make sure fans felt like they were experiencing the album come to life and living every song as the show progressed. This shared vision was the inspiration for the super bright, vibrant colours and big moving effects in the audience.
“After we put up the second Bernabéu show, we checked online, and at that point, there were 493,000 people ahead of us in the queue”
“For the last shows in Madrid, the artist and her team wanted to go all out. So together, we designed a 6-LED PixMob wristband with 360° light diffusion. This wristband is made of sustainable materials (no silicone, no single-use plastic) and six mega LEDs powered by powerful alkaline batteries with the signature Mañana Será Bonito artwork across the wrist strap.”
Those four shows were certain to bring the tour to a fittingly grandiose conclusion – literally going out with a bang. “The goal was to create something truly special for the Spanish audience,” says Live Nation’s Spanish promoter Nacho Córdoba. “Karol G is the first artist to sell out four shows at the Bernabéu, breaking a record that no other artist had previously achieved.”
Just how crazy was demand for this particular show? “After we put up the second Bernabéu show, we checked online, and at that point, there were 493,000 people ahead of us in the queue!” recalls De Lattre.
Tomorrow Will Be Beautiful
For her team and those who work alongside her, the accolades, the acclaim, and the sheer passion she inspires in her fans is truly something special – and utterly deserved. “Simply put, no artist has bigger ambition or works harder – Karol has a sense of the moment like no other,” says Lewis. “She understands both the opportunity at hand now and the fact that she has built something sustainable for the long-term and will stop at nothing to achieve the goals she has set for herself.”
Then again, what else would you expect from a true bichota at the top of her game? “As with any successful organisation, the business takes the tone of its leadership – Karol is unequivocally the boss, and the way she treats her team and everyone she meets with respect and positivity is infectious,” continues Lewis. “Whether she crosses paths with the teamster in the morning or the janitor as she exits the venue, Karol always connects with them. The radiant power of her quick smile or ‘hello’ is undeniable.” For Karol G, it’s not just tomorrow that looks good – it’s the foreseeable and beyond.
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Rock in Rio CEO plans LatAm’s largest ents complex
Rock in Rio founder Roberto Medina has unveiled a “visionary project” to create the largest entertainment complex in Latin America.
In partnership with financial group Genial Investimentos, the Imagine scheme will transform Rio de Janeiro’s Olympic Park, home to Brazil’s iconic Rock in Rio festival since 2017 and site of the 2016 Summer Olympic Games, into a leisure, sports and entertainment centre.
The complex will house at least 10 distinct areas, including the main 100,000-cap space – the largest events park in Brazil – plus Latin America’s biggest amphitheatre (cap. 40,000), capable of attracting top international acts.
“Forty years ago, we created an innovative project that came back to stay in 2011. Now, we are going even further,” says Rock World president Medina. “In addition to Rock in Rio maintaining its permanent structures, we are valuing the legacy and making the space ready for various entertainment events. We will use all of our expertise to build, together with the various levels of municipal, state and federal government, a policy that places tourism as the main vocation of this city and the country.
“What would take years to build will be done in a period of three to four years. We already have the structure of the Olympic Park practically ready to bring Imagine to life. We have to embrace entertainment as the key to boosting the city’s economy, creating jobs, bringing companies from various sectors and even more development to Rio de Janeiro.”
Other attractions will include the Rock in Rio Factory, which will take people behind the scenes of the festival, a museum in honour of the Rio 2016 Olympics and various parks, as well as a creative hub, theme park, gamer arena, skate park, ice rink, gastronomic hub and resort. It will be the stage for celebrations such as Carnival, Easter, Oktoberfest, Halloween, Christmas and New Year, as well as music, dance and sports events.
“This is a transformational project for Rio de Janeiro”
The project also includes a mobility scheme integrating all types of transportation in the city and is expected to generate an economic impact of R$9.2 billion (€1.5bn) for the Rio economy, along with more than 140,000 jobs
“This is a transformational project for Rio de Janeiro,” says Genial Investimentos CEO Rodolfo Riechert. “Genial Investimentos has been a long-time investor in Rio de Janeiro, and together with our partner Roberto Medina, we will help transform Imagine into reality.”
Rock in Rio returns to the Olympic Park over two weekends this month for its 40th anniversary edition from 13-15 & 19-22 September. Headliners will include Travis Scott, Ed Sheeran, Imagine Dragons, Katy Perry, Shawn Mendes and Avenged Sevenfold.
A special feature celebrating 40 years of the biennial festival will appear in the forthcoming issue of IQ.
Medina debuted spin-off music festival The Town last year at the Interlagos race track in São Paulo, attracting 500,000 fans over five days for acts such as Post Malone, Foo Fighters, Maroon 5 and Bruno Mars.
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Primavera Sound cancels South American festivals
Primavera Sound organisers have cancelled all of the brand’s South American festivals in 2024, blaming “external difficulties”.
Festivals in Argentina and Brazil, plus Primavera Day events in Uruguay and Paraguay had been slated to take place in late November and early December this year.
The Spanish institution debuted in Brazil, Argentina and Chile in 2022 to commemorate the event’s 20th birthday, and expanded its footprint on the continent last year.
“This is undoubtedly a difficult decision, taken after many months of work and after pursuing numerous paths in order to be able to hold these events with guarantees, especially in the context of the current musical industry situation and its challenges,” says Primavera Sound director Alfonso Lanza. “Now that we have exhausted all of the possibilities, we must be prudent and focus all our energy on future plans.”
Citing sources from the festival, La Vanguardia suggests the reason for the cancellations is related to complications around securing headliners.
Primavera attracted close to 350,000 people across its events in Latin America in 2023, with second editions of the festival in Buenos Aires, Argentina and São Paulo, Brazil drawing 120,000 and 115,000 people respectively, according to promoters.
Organisers stress their commitment to returning “stronger” to Latin America “as soon as possible
In addition, 35,000 people attended Primavera Sound concerts in Santiago, Chile, over 12,000 fans experienced the first Paraguay event to mark Asunción Spring Day, and more than 30,000 people went to the inaugural Road to Primavera concerts in Lima, Peru.
Headline acts included The Cure, Blur, Pet Shop Boys, Beck and The Killers, with The Cure also selling out standalone Primavera concerts in Montevideo, Uruguay and Bogota, Colombia.
Primavera organisers say they are already looking to the future and stress their commitment to returning “stronger” to Latin America “as soon as possible”.
“We want to thank our local partners for their dedication and effort,” adds Lanza. “They have given invaluable support for a project in which we continue to believe for its cultural value and for extending the musical routes in the southern hemisphere at atypical times of the year, something that we consider positive for all the parties involved in the process, from fans to artists.”
After debuting in Madrid in 2023, the Barcelona-hailing festival opted against running another instalment this year following a “complicated” debut edition.
The flagship Primavera Sound Barcelona will return to Parc Del Forum from 5-7 June 2025. Full festival tickets are available from €265. Portuguese spin-off Primavera Sound Porto is set for 12-14 June 2025 at Parque Da Cidade. Remaning three-day tickets are priced from €160.
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Colombia’s MedPlus Coliseum welcomes 550k fans
Colombia’s MedPlus Coliseum is celebrating its second anniversary, having welcomed more than 550,000 people and a raft of international stars since its Covid-delayed opening.
The 24,000-cap multi-purpose venue in Bogotá is the brainchild of Colombian-born US promoter Henry Cardenas, president and executive director of US-based promoter Cárdenas Marketing Network (CMN).
“It’s about time that Colombia had a building that was able to offer more and better shows,” said Cárdenas at the time.
Artic Monkeys, Imagine Dragons, Roger Waters, Twenty One Pilots, Swedish House Mafia and Luis Miguel are among the 180-plus acts to have graced the building since it launched with a show by Latin singer Marc Anthony in August 2022.
As well as its 20,000+ capacity main room, the Coliseum houses more than 750m2 of LED screens, ten loading and unloading docks and a variety of indoor and outdoor spaces. Healthcare company MedPlus agreed a five-year sponsorship deal with the venue last year.
“This alliance with the MedPlus Coliseum has been fundamental in promoting well-being beyond the physical,” says MedPlus CEO Hernando Botero, as per La Republica. “Through this collaboration, we have been able to show that well-being is not only about health, but also about enjoying high-quality experiences and balance, essential aspects for a full life.”
“Inflation here in Colombia is hitting pretty hard, but the big names are selling out, both in stadiums and in arenas”
Upcoming acts set to perform at the US$100 million entertainment and sports venue include Travis Scott, Eric Prydz and Feid.
CMN entered into a “historic” partnership with AEG Presents in March this year in a strategic alliance to create “the world leader in live Latin music”, with ambitions to develop “elevated and expanded experiences” for artists and audiences globally.
The Colombian capital is also home to the 13,000-capacity Movistar Arena, operated by Colombiana de Escenarios – a joint venture between Movistar Arena Chile owner HLR Group and Colombian ticketing market leader Tuboleta.
“Inflation here in Colombia is hitting pretty hard, but the big names are selling out, both in stadiums and in arenas,” Movistar Arena Colombia general manager Luis Guillermo Quintero told IQ‘s 2024 Global Arena Guide.
The country is South America’s fourth-biggest economy, and its second city of Medellín is also set to gain a 16,000-capacity multipurpose arena by 2026. Built by CLK Group, the company behind Tuboleta and promoter TBL Live, Arena Primavera is projected to host 600,000 spectators across 75 events each year.
“We are convinced of the potential of the entertainment market in Medellín and [the administrative department of] Antioquia, which has become a musical and cultural reference for the country, a must-stop for national and international artists,” said Hernando Sánchez, CLK general manager. “Therefore, a venue is needed to place the department as a leader in the global arena circuit.”
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Travis Scott tour stretches to LatAm & Australasia
Travis Scott’s record-setting Circus Maximus Tour is heading to Latin America and Australasia this autumn.
The rapper has announced stadium shows in Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Australia and New Zealand for September and October.
Additionally, he will return to North America for a special one-night-only date at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey on 9 October. More than one million tickets have already been sold for the global run so far.
Scott is currently on the European leg of the tour, which concludes with three nights in Portugal at Lisbon’s MEO Arena from 2-4 August. The European dates have grossed nearly $27 million (€25m) with over 270,000 attendees across the first 11 dates.
In London, he drew in excess of 48,500 fans to Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on 11 July – his largest headline show to date – grossing more than $6.6m. He 33-year-old Houston native also broke the venue’s merchandise sales record and is also the first US hip-hop artist to sell 200,000 tickets in a year across three shows in Italy.
His sold-out 44-date North American trek in 2023 and 2024 generated $95.7m at the box office with an attendance of 686,000, breaking multiple merchandise sale records across states, and is officially the highest-grossing rap tour of 2024. Scott also made history as the first rapper to headline a sold-out show at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles.
The full list of additional Circus Maximus dates is as follows:
7 September – Santiago, Chile – Estadio Bicentenario La Florida
9 September – Buenos Aires, Argentina – Movistar Arena
11 September – São Paulo, Brazil – Allianz Parque Stadium
13 September – Rio De Janeiro, Brazil – Rock N Rio
15 September – Bogota, Colombia – Coliseo Medplus
18 September – San Juan, Puerto Rico – Coliseo de Puerto Rico
21 September – Mexico City, México – Esplanade Estadio Azteca
9 October – East Rutherford, New Jersey – MetLife Stadium
17 October – Sydney, Australia – Allianz Stadium
22 October – Melbourne, Australia – Marvel Stadium
26 October – Brisbane, Australia – Suncorp Stadium
31 October – Auckland, New Zealand – Eden Park
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Mexico’s Foro Sol reveals new name, reopening date
Mexico’s Foro Sol has been been given a new name ahead of its reopening with a concert by Bruno Mars later this summer.
Operated by Ocesa, the 65,000-cap Mexico City site will now be known as the GNP Seguros Stadium after securing a naming rights deal with insurance company GNP.
The venue, which opened in 1993, has been closed for renovation since early 2024, but will relaunch with Mars’ performance on 10 August.
“The GNP Seguros Stadium will reopen its doors to continue being the global benchmark venue where the best national and international artists connect with their fans,” says Ocesa founder and CEO Alejandro Soberón Kuri. “Thanks to GNP Seguros for being the ally with which this venue will live a new era.”
Other upcoming shows at the stadium include four nights by Metallica (20, 22, 27 & 29 September), plus two dates with The Killers (5-6 October), as well as headline shows by Feid, Natanael Cano, Caiphanes Eric Clapton, Blink-182, Iron Maiden, The Fabulous Cadillacs, Morat and Twenty One Pilots.
Mars will embark on a 14-date tour of Brazil in the autumn, including multiple stadium concerts
Following the Mexico gig, Mars will also become the first act to play at the new 18,000-cap Intuit Dome in Los Angeles on 15 and 16 August before resuming his Las Vegas residency at Dolby Live on 20 August.
In the autumn, the hitmaker will embark on a 14-date tour of Brazil, including multiple stadium concerts. The run will stop at São Paulo’s Estádio MorumBIS for six nights on 4-5, 8-9 and 12-13 October, followed by three shows at Estádio Nilton Santos in Rio de Janeiro (16, 19-20 October).
The 38-year-old American will then perform two gigs each at Arena BRB Mané Garrincha in the capital Brasilia (26-27 October) and Estádio Couto Pereira, Curitiba (31 October & 1 November), finishing up at Estádio Mineirão, Belo Horizonte, on 5 November.
Mars has already proven to be a huge draw in Brazil, headlining two sold out days at the inaugural edition of 105,000-cap Rock in Rio spin-off festival The Town, which debuted in São Paulo last year. The star also made history in Japan with seven sold-out shows at the 55,000-capacity Tokyo Dome in early 2024.
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Paul McCartney unveils European Got Back Tour
Paul McCartney has announced a European tour including his first UK dates since headlining Glastonbury 2022.
The Got Back Tour will land in Europe in December this year for two shows at each of La Defense Arena, Paris, France (4-5 December) and Wizink Centre, Madrid, Spain (9-10), before heading to the UK for nights at Manchester’s Co-op Live (14-15) and The O2 in London, where the run finishes on 18-19 December.
The 81-year-old’s last show in the French capital was at La Defense Arena six years ago and he last played Madrid eight years ago in 2016 at Estadio Vincente Calderon. His most recent gig in London was in 2018 at The O2, while his last Manchester show was in 2011 at the Manchester Evening News Arena (now AO Arena).
Last week, McCartney announced his first 2024 live dates, which will take place in South America this October, visiting Uruguay, Argentina, Chile and Peru.
“It’s going to be an amazing end to the year”
“I’m excited to be ending my year and 2024 tour dates in the UK,” says the Beatles legend. “It’s always such a special feeling to play shows on our home soil. It’s going to be an amazing end to the year. Let’s get set to party. I can’t wait to see you.”
McCartney launched his Got Back tour in 2022, completing 16 shows across the US before performing his acclaimed Glastonbury set in June 2022. In 2023, he played 18 shows through Australia, Mexico and Brazil.
The full list of tour dates is as follows:
Tuesday 1 October – Estadio Centenario, Montevideo, Uruguay
Saturday 5 October – River Plate Stadium, Bueno Aires, Argentina
Sunday 6 October – River Plate Stadium, Bueno Aires, Argentina
Friday 11 October – Estadio Monumental, Santiago, Chile
Wednesday 23 October – Mario Alberto Kempes, Cordoba, Argentina
Sunday 27 October – Estadio Nacional, Lima, Peru
Wednesday 4 December – La Defense Arena, Paris, France
Thursday 5 December – La Defense Arena, Paris, France
Monday 9 December – Wizink Center, Madrid, Spain
Tuesday 10 December – Wizink Center, Madrid, Spain
Saturday 14 December – Co-op Live, Manchester, UK
Sunday 15 December – Co-op Live, Manchester, UK
Wednesday 18 December – The O2, London, UK
Thursday 19 December – The O2, London, UK
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