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Shakira Just Passed Bad Bunny: Her Tour Is Now the Highest-Grossing Latin Tour of All Time at $534 Million

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59 minutes ago

October 29, 2026

There is a new ceiling on Latin touring, and Shakira built it. Her Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour has grossed $534,380,976 and sold 4,084,398 tickets across 118 shows, according to Pollstar Boxoffice figures through October 4. That makes it the highest-grossing Latin tour in history.

The record she broke belonged to Bad Bunny, whose tour grossed $443,403,120 across 57 shows. Behind them sit Luis Miguel’s comeback tour at $415,849,128 and Karol G’s Mañana Será Bonito Tour at $304,960,266. All four of the biggest Latin tours ever have happened in the last four years.

The scale inside the run is its own story. Her 13-date Madrid residency alone drew more than 700,000 fans and generated an economic impact exceeding $200 million, according to Live Nation. Madrid built a temporary venue for her, called Shakira Stadium, and the run grew from an announced three nights to 13 on demand.

The tour began in February 2025 as a stadium run after an original arena plan was scrapped because demand overwhelmed it. Remaining dates include a finale at the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt on November 28.

The money, in plain words: Latin music is not a niche market anymore. It is stadium business at the very top of the global industry, and the artist sitting on top of it has been a star for three decades.

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Tom Lee Called 7,700 by Christmas. The Market Got There in October, So He Moved His Target to 8,000

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52 minutes ago

October 29, 2026

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Wall Street’s loudest bull just got his number early. Last December, Fundstrat strategist Tom Lee set a year-end 2026 target of 7,700 for the S&P 500, one of the most bullish calls on the Street at the time. On October 20, the index closed at 7,713, hitting Lee’s year-end number with more than two months to spare. Lee has since raised his target to 8,000.

To be clear on whose view this is: these are Lee’s calls, made publicly by Fundstrat, and we are reporting them the way we report any analyst’s call, with his name on them. They are not our recommendation, and this article is not financial advice.

The interesting part is the gap between the call and the product. Lee’s Granny Shots ETF, ticker GRNY, built around Fundstrat’s themes and holding 42 large-cap U.S. stocks, is up 10.4 percent this year. That trails the S&P 500’s 12.7 percent gain and the Nasdaq-100’s 16.8 percent, in the very year his headline call landed. In 2025 the fund returned 24 percent, ahead of the index’s 17.7 percent.

He is not alone in that gap. In the first half of 2026, 67 percent of U.S. large-cap funds did worse than the S&P 500 itself, according to the S&P Dow Jones Indices scorecard.

The money, in plain words: calling the market right and beating the market are two different skills. Lee nailed the first one this year. The second one is beating almost everybody, including, so far, him.

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