Shakira has upgraded from arenas to stadiums in several markets on her 2025 Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran (Women Don’t Cry Anymore) World Tour.

In response to “incredible fan demand and production changes”, the 47-year-old has retooled the 2024 North American leg, which has been rescheduled for spring 2025.

Produced by Live Nation, the US and Canada tour will now visit Bank of America Stadium, Charlotte (13 May), MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford (15 May), Bell Centre, Montreal (20 May), Little Caesars Arena, Detroit (22 May), Scotiabank Arena, Toronto (26 May), Fenway Park, Boston (29 May) and Nationals Park, Washington DC (31 May).

It will then stop at Camping World Stadium, Orlando (4 June), Hard Rock Stadium, Miami (6 June), Globe Life Field, Arlington (11 June), Alamodome, San Antonio (13 June), Toyota Center, Houston (15 June), SoFi Stadium, Inglewood (20 June), Footprint Center, Phoenix (22 June), Snapdragon Stadium, San Diego (26 June), Allegiant Stadium, Las Vegas (28 June) and Oracle Park, San Francisco (30 June).

The Colombian superstar has also added three dates in her native Latin America after selling out 950,000 tickets for 18 stadium shows in the territory. Starting on 11 February 2025, the now 21-date LatAm leg – which will see Shakira become the first artist to perform five consecutive nights at Mexico City’s GNP Seguros Stadium (formerly Foro Sol) – will also visit Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Colombia and Chile.

In other tour news, Lenny Kravitz has unveiled his Blue Electric Light Tour will come to Europe from 22 February to 14 April. Kravitz will play arenas in France, the UK, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, Spain and Portugal.

Limp Bizkit have also announced a UK arena run. The Loserville 2025 tour will take in Glasgow’s OVO Hydro (8 March), bp pulse LIVE in Birmingham (13 March), AO Arena Manchester (15 March) and OVO Arena Wembley (16 March).

Elsewhere, Richard Ashcroft has been confirmed as the special guest for the UK and Ireland leg of Oasis’ sold-out reunion. The 19-date trek, which has seen unprecedented demand, starts at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium on 4 July next year.

“Given the heartbreaking loss experienced this week, I’ve made the decision to postpone the US leg of the Stairway to the Sky Tour”

Meanwhile, Zayn has pushed back the US leg of his first ever solo tour due to the “heartbreaking loss” of his former One Direction bandmate Liam Payne. The intimate Stairway to the Sky outing had been due to start on Wednesday this week at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco.

Payne died on 16 October, aged just 31, following a fall from the third-floor balcony of a hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

“Given the heartbreaking loss experienced this week, I’ve made the decision to postpone the US leg of the Stairway to the Sky Tour,” said Zayn on X. “The dates are being rescheduled for January and I’ll post them as soon as it’s all set in the next few days.”

In addition, P!nk has postponed her next four US shows – slated for Lincoln, Sioux Falls, Milwaukee and Des Moines – citing “reasons beyond my control”.

“I’m so disappointed to share this news, but we are working on rescheduling each of these shows as soon as we can,” the singer posted on Instagram.

Finally, rising Argentine artist Tiago PZK has announced the postponement of his upcoming Gotti A Tour, which was due to begin this autumn. It has been rescheduled for early 2025.

“I’m sad to announce that my plan to release new music before this tour was delayed, which didn’t give us enough time to finish the production in time,” he explains.

The tour will now commence in Europe in Madrid, Spain in February, before heading to Latin America and the US.

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Former One Direction star Zayn has released details of his first ever solo tour.

The 31-year-old singer, who signed with UTA for representation worldwide in 2023, will launch the intimate Stairway to the Sky run next month.

He announced the trek with a surprise walk on skit on US TV show The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon last night (17 September).

The 11-city tour, produced by AEG Presents and SJM Concerts, will visit the US and UK this autumn.

The North American leg kicks off on 23 October at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco, California, making stops in Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and DC before wrapping at New York City’s Hammerstein Ballroom on 2 November.

It will continue to the UK on 20 November at O2 Academy Edinburgh, followed by gigs in Manchester, London and Wolverhampton, concluding at Newcastle’s O2 City Hall on 3 December.

The full list of tour dates is as follows:

US
23 October: Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, San Francisco
25 October: The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas
27 October: Shrine Expo Hall, Los Angeles
30 October: The Anthem, Washington, DC
2 November: Hammerstein Ballroom, New York

UK
20 November: O2 Academy Edinburgh
23 November: O2 Academy Leeds
24 November: O2 Apollo Manchester
26 November: Eventim Apollo, London
29 November: Wolverhampton The Halls
3 December: O2 City Hall, Newcastle

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Ex-One Direction singer Zayn Malik will play his first concert as a solo artist on 7 October at 117 Live’s new Dubai concert venue, the Autism Rocks Arena.

Veteran promoter Thomas Ovesen, who joined new venture 117 Live from Done Events in December, tells Gulf News he is confident of selling every ticket in the previously unnamed 20,000-capacity greenfield arena. “Were excited that […] we’re the only show in the region with Zayn,” he adds.

The temporary greenfield site will be replaced by a permanent amphitheatre at the Dubai Outlet Mall in spring 2017. The new venue will feature boxes, suites and viewing terraces and is part of a plan by 117 Live owner Al Ahli Holding Group (AAHG) to create a “new regional live entertainment hub”. AAGH, a Dubai-headquartered international conglomerate which employs 9,000 people, also owns the Dubai Outlet Mall.

Malik (pictured), known mononymously as Zayn, hit headlines last week after being racially abused by American rapper Azealia Banks for allegedly plagiarising one of her music videos.

Malik’s former band, One Direction, had the second-highest-grossing tour of 2015.

Azealia Banks has apparently been dropped by her UK booking agency, Primary Talent International, as the fallout continues from her racist, expletive-filled verbal attack on Zayn Malik last week.

Banks’s name is no longer visible on Primary Talent’s roster, and an error message is displayed where her artist page used to be:

IQ has contacted Primary Talent for confirmation that Banks’s contract has been terminated.

Rapper Banks, an African American, was last week axed from the line-up of London festival Rinse Born & Bred after calling ex-One Direction singer Malik, whose father is a Pakistani, a “hairy, curry-scented bitch” and “sand nigger who emulates white boys’ renditions of black malehood” as the two feuded over accusations Malik plagiarised the video for her single ‘Yung Rapunxel’ in his latest release, ‘Like I Would’.

She has also since been suspended from Twitter, and could be blocked from entering Britain in future (a Home Office spokesman said in response to her remarks that “coming to the UK is a privilege, and we expect those who come here to respect our shared values”).

Yesterday Banks posted the following apology on Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BFZ7VslH1QT/