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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Latin icon Luis Miguel’s tour shifts 3.1m tickets

Veteran Latin singer Luis Miguel has emerged as one of the year’s biggest touring artists after selling 3.1 million tickets for his first global trek in five years.

Produced by Fenix Entertainment, Cárdenas Marketing Network (CMN) and Iglesias Entertainment, the 54-year-old Mexican performed 66 shows to 900,000 fans in 2023 and will play 111 concerts to more than 2.2m people this year.

Miguel, who first rose to fame in the 1980s, was ranked at No.4 in Pollstar‘s Worldwide Top 100 Artist Grosses for Q1 2024, grossing $84,367,629 from 593,308 ticket sales to trail only Coldplay, U2 and Madonna.

“Why is this happening? Because he’s an idol. People love him,” Henry Cárdenas, CEO and founder of CMN, tells Pollstar. “The other thing is that he doesn’t go out every year, and people were hungry to see him.”

“This is a unique artist. He is elegant, and people like to pay to see an elegant singer. He can be playing at Radio City Music Hall, Madison Square Garden or a soccer stadium, and he’s always dressed elegantly. He’s not on MTV, or radio stations every day doing interviews. It’s about his talent.”

“He saw the response and said, ‘I want to do something that [no Latin artist] has done. I want to do 200 shows'”

The Luis Miguel Tour kicked off in August 2023 at the Movistar Arena in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he performed 10 sold-out nights. The run continued with 10 sold-out shows in Chile and 25 sold-out stadiums in the US, before closing with 21 shows in Mexico. More dates were added due to demand.

“He saw the response and said, ‘I want to do something that [no Latin artist] has done. I want to do 200 shows,’” adds Cárdenas. “And I said let’s do it.”

The outing, which includes more than 150 crew members, including 15 musicians and 19 mariachis. resumed on 18 January at Santo Domingo’s Félix Sánchez Olympic Stadium in the Dominican Republic, followed by three sold-out concerts at El Coliseo de Puerto Rico, two shows in Guatemala, and stops in El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Honduras, Costa Rica and Venezuela.

Currently in Colombia, the tour will extend through Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Brazil, Bolivia, the US, Canada, Spain and Mexico.

The Spanish leg will feature 15 dates from 28 June to 3 August, including two sold-out gigs at Madrid’s Santiago Bernabeu stadium. It will also visit Córdoba, Sevilla, Pamplona, Murcia, Roquetas de Mar, Barcelona, A Coruña, Cádiz, Valencia and Marbella.

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