“I’ll wait for you sitting in the usual corner, and more dressed up than if it were a Friday,” says one of Shakira’s classics, from her album bare feet. And so thousands of her fans in North America were left: waiting, after the Colombian artist announced that her concerts in the United States and Canada, initially scheduled for November and December 2024, will be canceled due to the “extraordinary” demand for shows and tickets. The initial forecast has fallen short. As the singer announced on her Instagram account, “the tour in North America now requires stadiums and more dates, in order to reach more of you, which is why it has been moved to May 2025.” The new schedule will be announced next Monday.
Women No Longer Cry World Tourthe singer-songwriter’s seventh world tour, “has exceeded the most optimistic expectations,” as she herself acknowledges in a statement. A tour in which the Barranquilla native will perform the songs from her new album—which tell of her love breakup, which the world has witnessed, as well as her transition from heartbreak to happy singleness—but in which she will also promises to take a tour of his greatest hits. Since she announced that she would go on tour, on April 12, at the Coachella Festival, during her presentation as a special guest of Bizarrap, the magnitude of the impact that her concerts would have began to be perceived, a phenomenon perhaps only comparable to The Eras Tourby Taylor Swift, but in its Latin American version.
Just five days later, and in the face of overwhelming demand in the United States, Shakira announced second dates in Palm Springs, Miami and Brooklyn, an expansion that over the months proved to be insufficient. The same thing happened in his native Barranquilla, where he opened a second date, and where he will twice fill the Roberto Meléndez Metropolitan Stadium, with capacity for 46,000 spectators, a stage that the Colombian soccer team only manages to cover in its best moments. The second date sold out the entire ticket office in less than three hours. Shakira will perform there on February 20 and 21, on the same days as the Barranquilla Carnival, the most iconic celebration of the Caribbean city, and her presence will literally change the programming. The second date coincided with the Night of the Guacherna, a traditional parade that, with the intermediation of the mayor, gave it its place on the calendar.
The more than 220,000 tickets for his five concerts in Colombia are already sold out. In Bogotá, in just an hour and a half all the tickets for the second date of Women No Longer Cry World Tour. The phenomenon transcends the country, as the singer has sold out 17 shows, with more than 800,000 tickets also sold in Brazil, Peru, Chile, Argentina and Mexico. His concerts will be held in the largest capacity venues in the cities he will visit, with the intention of reaching the widest possible audience. In that sense, the organizers have announced that they will make a futuristic montage with cutting-edge technology and special effects, and Shakira herself has promised to give her all and offer “the most special show of my life. “The one they deserve!”, as he reiterated this Friday on his Instagram account.
But, no matter how much she expands venues and ticket offices, the vast majority of her fans will be left out of the tour that Shakira herself claims is becoming the most important of her life. Thousands of others, after registering on the tour website, are still waiting for a ticket, a spot, a notification, “without any previously made appointment, but with the full intention of seeing you,” as their song says.
