In February 2025, an estimated two million people gathered on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro — not for a political rally, not for a sporting event, but to watch Shakira open the first leg of what would become the highest-grossing tour in the history of Latin music. That number, two million, is worth pausing over. It is not the combined total of a summer run or the accumulated gate of an entire world tour — it is one beach, one night, one artist who has spent more than three decades building the kind of reach that makes a number like that feel, almost, like it makes sense. The Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour comes to American Airlines Center on Tuesday, June 23, 2026, and Dallas — it is worth stating plainly — is the only Texas date on the entire 2026 U.S. arena leg.
The timing carries its own particular charge. AT&T Stadium in Arlington is hosting FIFA World Cup 2026 matches June 22 through 25. The Metroplex, in that window, will be home to the world’s most-watched sporting event and, one evening into that stretch, to the artist who gave the 2010 World Cup its unofficial anthem in “Waka Waka (This Time for Africa).” Whether that convergence was engineered or simply fell into place, it is the kind of alignment that turns a concert stop into something harder to explain you missed.
About Shakira
Shakira Isabel Mebarak was born in Barranquilla, Colombia, and released her first album, Magia, in 1991 — a recording career spanning more than three decades that predates most of what the music industry now believes about how a Latin artist builds a global audience. Her 2001 album Laundry Service introduced Latin pop flow into Western radio in a way that opened doors that had not been open before. Her 2006 single “Hips Don’t Lie” broke the record, at the time, for the most-played pop song in a single week. She is a four-time Grammy winner and fifteen-time Latin Grammy winner, the best-selling Latin female artist of all time with more than 95 million records sold, and in 2020 she co-headlined the Super Bowl LIV halftime show alongside Jennifer Lopez — now the most-watched halftime show in YouTube history, at over 308 million views.
Her 2024 album Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran — her first full-length record in nearly seven years — took Best Latin Pop Album at the 2025 Grammy Awards. It has been described as “one of the most defiant and ambitious albums of her extraordinary career,” and the reviews are not wrong: this is not a record designed to meet expectation, but one that seems entirely uninterested in doing so. It is the work of someone who has already proved everything worth proving and is choosing to keep going anyway, on her own terms. She stands nominated for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in the 2026 cycle, alongside Mariah Carey and Pink.
The tour surrounding that album now carries Guinness World Record certification as the highest-grossing Latin touring act in history — $421.6 million across 86 shows, 3.3 million tickets sold. The 2026 U.S. arena leg, running June 13 through July 25 across 13 North American dates, transitions the production from the stadiums that opened the run into rooms like American Airlines Center — a scaling back in size that, by live review accounts, may produce the better nights. The arrangements lean into live texture: a horn section with real presence, percussion that breathes, bass mixed loud enough to feel in the floor. The setlist runs 22 to 25 songs built as a four-act arc — global hits anchor the front, the newer album material sits in the middle with the same weight given it as to the catalog, and the back half builds into a finale that reframes the early songs in a different light. “Waka Waka,” “Hips Don’t Lie,” and “Suerte (Whenever, Wherever)” are all in there. After Dallas, the tour closes with an eleven-night residency at the Santiago Bernabéu in Madrid and, on November 28, a performance at the Pyramids of Giza.
Venue Information
American Airlines Center is located at 2500 Victory Avenue in Dallas — a 20,000-capacity arena and the premier large-format concert venue in the Metroplex. The June 23 show begins at 7:30 PM. For more upcoming shows in the region, see our Dallas–Fort Worth concerts page.
Tickets
Tickets for Shakira at American Airlines Center on June 23, 2026 are available via Ticketmaster. Dallas is the sole Texas stop on the Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour’s 2026 U.S. arena leg — if you are in the state and this show is on your radar, this is the one.