Dolly Parton’s upcoming concert residency in Las Vegas has been postponed. The country icon is undergoing “a few” undisclosed medical procedures to address health concerns, she revealed on Sunday (Sept. 28).
In a statement posted on her social media accounts, Parton explained that she won’t have sufficient rehearsal time ahead of the shows that were scheduled for The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in early December. She announced rescheduled dates set for September 2026.
“I want the fans and public to hear directly from me that, unfortunately, I will need to postpone my upcoming Las Vegas concerts,” Parton wrote. “As many of you know, I have been dealing with some health challenges, and my doctors tell me that I must have a few procedures. As I joked with them, it must be time for my 100,000-mile check-up, although it’s not the usual trip to see my plastic surgeon!”
Her message continued, “In all seriousness, given this, I am not going to be able to rehearse and put together the show that I want you to see, and the show that you deserve to see. You pay good money to see me perform, and I want to be at my best for you. While I’ll still be able to work on all of my projects from here in Nashville, I just need a little time to get show ready, as they say. And don’t worry about me quitting’ the business because God hasn’t said anything about stopping yet. But, I believe He is telling me to slow down right now so I can be ready for more big adventures with all of you. I love you and thank you for understanding.”
Parton was set to perform in Vegas on Dec. 4, 6, 7, 10, 12 and 13. She planned to weave “seven decades of classic hits and fan favorites including ‘9 to 5,’ ‘Jolene,’ ‘I Will Always Love You’ and ‘Coat of Many Colors’” into the limited engagement run at The Colosseum, for which tickets went on sale in June.
The rescheduled dates are: Sept. 17, Sept. 19, Sept. 20, Sept. 23, Sept. 25 and Sept. 26.
Original tickets are valid for the new dates, and refunds will be available. Parton and The Colosseum at Caesars Palace said more instructions will be provided to ticket purchasers via email.
The concert residency is Parton’s first extended run in Las Vegas since a short engagement in the early ’90s — at the then-new, but now-closed, Mirage Hotel, where she performed alongside Kenny Rogers.
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Dua Lipa paid tribute to a fellow pop star during her Radical Optimism tour stop in Miami.
On Saturday (Sept. 27), during the second of two nights at the city’s Kaseya Center, the 30-year-old British-Albanian singer delivered a faithful rendition of Ariana Grande’s “One Last Time,” from Grande’s 2014 album, My Everything.
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Fan-captured footage shows Lipa onstage in a fur-lined, sparkly black jacket over a lacy, see-through bodysuit as she belts out the emotional track, which peaked at No. 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 in February 2015.
Grande, a Florida native, quickly took notice, sharing a clip of Lipa’s cover on her Instagram Story and adding a face holding back tears emoji in appreciation.
Lipa has made a habit of delivering locally inspired covers throughout her Radical Optimism World Tour, which kicked off its U.S. leg earlier this month at Chicago’s United Center.
During her first night in Miami on Friday (Sept. 26), the “Houdini” singer paid homage to local legends Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine with a high-energy performance of “Conga.”
Earlier in the tour, Lipa took her tributes to New York, teaming up with Nile Rodgers for a disco-fueled rendition of Chic’s 1978 classic “Le Freak.” She also honored the Big Apple with covers of Alicia Keys’ “No One” and Blondie’s “One Way or Another.” At the U.S. kickoff in Chicago on Sept. 5, Lipa brought out hometown icon Chaka Khan for a powerhouse duet of her 1983 hit “Ain’t Nobody.”
Lipa will continue the North American leg of her tour with upcoming stops in Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle, before heading to South America and Mexico.
The Radical Optimism World Tour supports Lipa’s third studio album of the same name, which debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 in 2024. The album spawned multiple hits, including lead single “Houdini,” which spent 17 weeks at No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart.
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Cardi B scores her second No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart as AM I THE DRAMA? debuts atop the tally (dated Oct. 4) with 200,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States in the week ending Sept. 25, according to Luminate. That marks 2025’s biggest week for an R&B/hip-hop album by a woman. AM I THE DRAMA? is Cardi B’s second full-length studio project, and follows her chart-topping debut, Invasion of Privacy, in 2018.
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Also in the top 10 of the latest Billboard 200, Nine Inch Nails’ soundtrack to TRON: Ares debuts at No. 5, marking the first top 10 for the band since 2013.
The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new Oct. 4, 2025-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Sept. 30. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.
Of AM I THE DRAMA?’s 200,000 first-week equivalent album units, SEA units comprise 110,000 (equaling 145.72 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs during the tracking week — it also debuts at No. 1 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 88,000 (it debuts at No. 1 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise 2,000.
AM I THE DRAMA?’s opening-week sales were boosted by its availability across an array of permutations. It was issued as a standard 19-song widely available digital download album; 20-song CD and vinyl editions; and a 23-song download and streaming edition. There were also further digital variants: an iTunes Store and Apple Music edition with bonus live video tracks, a 30-track artist webstore-exclusive edition and two widely available expanded editions (with 24 tracks each).
The CD and vinyl variants for AM I THE DRAMA? were largely only available through Cardi B’s webstore and through some independent record stores. AM I THE DRAMA? was issued on two standard CD variants (one signed by the artist), seven additional CD cover variants (four of them signed, inclusive of three versions with cover art showing gone-viral photos of the artist on the stand during her assault trial in August, dubbed the “courtroom edition”) and eight deluxe CD boxed sets containing merchandise and a CD. The album was also issued on two standard vinyl editions (one signed) and nine additional vinyl variants (some with different covers and/or color vinyl, most of them signed, including a “courtroom edition” cover variant).
In addition to a typical promotional press run to raise awareness of the album’s release, the artist also mounted a busy schedule of in-store appearances during release week, doing photo ops and meet-and-greets with fans purchasing the album. During release week, she hit four independent record stores (Looney Tunes in West Babylon, N.Y.; Spin Me Round in Easton, Pa.; DBS Sounds in Riverdale, Ga.; and Fingerprints in Long Beach, Calif.) and a Hot Topic location in Elmhurst, N.Y. and a Walmart in Cypress, Texas.
The widely available editions of AM I THE DRAMA? contain the Billboard Hot 100-charted hits “Outside” (No. 10 peak in July), “Imaginary Playerz” (No. 70 in August), “Up” (No. 1 in March 2021) and “WAP” (featuring Megan Thee Stallion, No. 1 in August 2020).
The chart-topping KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack holds at No. 2 with 104,000 equivalent album units earned (down 7%). The set also notches a 10th week inside the top two on the Billboard 200, marking the most weeks inside the top two for a soundtrack since the Frozen album logged 21 nonconsecutive frames in the top two (13 of them at No. 1) in 2014. KPop surpasses Encanto, which had nine weeks in the top two (all at No. 1) in 2022.
Morgan Wallen’s former No. 1 I’m the Problem is steady at No. 3 (90,000 equivalent album units, down 7%) and Sabrina Carpenter’s chart-topping Man’s Best Friend is stationary at No. 4 (69,000, down 21%).
Nine Inch Nails are back in the Billboard 200’s top 10 for the first time in over a decade, as the band’s soundtrack to the film TRON: Ares debuts at No. 5 (the highest debut of 2025 for a soundtrack) with 45,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 39,000 (it debuts at No. 2 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 6,000 (equaling 8.37 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. Nine Inch Nails have tallied seven top 10 albums on the Billboard 200: TRON: Ares, Hesitation Marks (No. 3 in 2013), Year Zero (No. 2, 2007), With Teeth (No. 1, 2005), The Fragile (No. 1, 1999), The Downward Spiral (No. 2, 1994) and Broken (No. 7, 1992).
The first-week sales of TRON: Ares were aided by its availability across four vinyl variants, a cassette, two CD variants and a download and streaming edition (all containing the same tracklist).
TRON: Ares is the companion soundtrack to the film of the same name, which will be released on Oct. 10 in movie theaters, and is the third in the Tron film series. It follows Tron: Legacy (2010) and Tron (1982). The TRON: Ares soundtrack is the second Tron movie soundtrack to reach the Billboard 200, following Daft Punk’s TRON: Legacy (which peaked at No. 4).
TRON: Ares was preceded by the album’s single “As Alive as You Need Me To Be,” which has reached the top 10 on both Alternative Airplay and Mainstream Rock Airplay.
Also, with KPop Demon Hunters and TRON: Ares at Nos. 2 and 5, there are two soundtracks in the top five simultaneously for the first time in more than six years. It last happened on the March 30, 2019 chart, when Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper’s chart-topping A Star Is Born was No. 3 and Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody was No. 5.
Rounding out the rest of the latest top 10 on the Billboard 200: Alex Warren’s You’ll Be Alright, Kid rises 7-6 (35,000 equivalent album units, down 3%); SZA’s chart-topping SOS climbs 8-7 (33,000, down 2%); Wallen’s former leader One Thing at a Time steps 9-8 (32,000, down 3%); Justin Bieber’s SWAG shifts 6-9 (just under 32,000, down 27%); and Bad Bunny’s former No. 1 DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS climbs 13-10 (nearly 32,000, up 21%).
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Just one day after tying the knot, the 37-year-old music producer celebrated his new wife on social media with a heartfelt tribute and a behind-the-scenes look at their wedding day.
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Blanco and Gomez, 33, exchanged vows on Saturday (Sept. 27), at the Sea Crest Nursery in Santa Barbara, California.
“i married a real life disney princess,” Blanco captioned a photo carousel on Instagram.
The gallery opens with the couple lounging on a white couch — Gomez looking radiant in her wedding dress, and Blanco dressed in a black-and-white tuxedo. A close-up shot of their hands follows, showing off their rings and sparkling accessories. Another snap shows them fast asleep in bed, and the final image captures a young boy lying in front of the altar, surrounded by floral arrangements.
“I love you soooo much,” Gomez commented on her husband’s post.
The couple’s famous friends quickly joined the celebration in the comments. SZA wrote, “Literally perfect . Love yall !!!!” with fire emojis. Paris Hilton added, “What a beautiful evening celebrating your wedding! … I love you both and so happy for you” and Breaking Bad star Aaron Paul shared three red heart emojis.
On Saturday evening, the pop star and Only Murders in the Building actress confirmed the happy news with her own Instagram post, sharing an intimate wedding album. The photos featured the bride and groom embracing, along with glimpses of wedding-day details like her custom halter-style Ralph Lauren gown, her bouquet, and the lush private estate setting.
“9.27.25,” Gomez wrote in the caption. Blanco replied in the comments, “my wife in real life.”
The newlyweds revealed their engagement in December 2024, after about a year of dating. Their professional relationship, however, began years earlier with collaborations on 2019’s “I Can’t Get Enough” (with Tainy and J Balvin) and 2023’s “Single Soon.” In March, the couple released their joint album, I Said I Love You First, which debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200.
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Lola Young is taking time to rest and recover after collapsing onstage during a recent performance in New York City.
On Sunday (Sept. 28), the 24-year-old South London singer announced through social media that she would be canceling her scheduled performance at the All Things Go music music festival in Washington, D.C., set for later that evening at the Merriweather Post Pavilion.
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The announcement came just one day after Young collapsed mid-song during her Saturday night (Sept. 27) set at All Things Go at Forest Hills Stadium in Queens, New York.
“I’m sorry to confirm that I won’t be playing all things go in DC today,” Young wrote on Instagram. “I love this job and I never take my commitments and audience for granted so I’m sorry to those who will be disappointed by this.”
She added, “I hope you’ll all give me another chance in the future. Thank you to all those who listen and care. To all the people that love to be mean online, pls give me a day off.”
Following her post, fellow artists and fans flooded the comments with messages of support. Kehlani wrote, “Get better sweetie pie. take all the time u need!!!!” while Aurora added, “I am so happy to see these comments … I’m so glad you’re doing what’s right for YOU, it’s very easy to forget when you feel so much responsibility … much love and hugs to the end of the world.”
Young’s onstage collapse occurred Saturday during a live performance of her 2023 single “Conceited.” Midway through the song, she appeared to pause to communicate with her keyboardist but collapsed before reaching them. Security and members of her team rushed to assist, surrounding her onstage. She remained on the ground for roughly 30 to 45 seconds before being carried off.
Later that day, Young reassured fans through an Instagram Story. “For anyone who saw my set at all things go today, I am doing okay now,” she wrote. “Thank you for all of your support.”
The incident followed another last-minute cancellation two days earlier (Sept. 26), when Young was pulled from Audacy’s We Can Survive concert at New Jersey’s Prudential Center. Her manager, Nick Shymansky, shared an update at the time, citing a “sensitive matter.”
“Lola is very open about her mental health and there are very occasionally days where myself and my team have to take protective measures to keep her safe,” Shymansky wrote on Instagram. “She is an incredible person and always takes her fans, career and performances seriously. I can only send huge apologies for the inconvenience caused.”
See Young’s addressing the All Things Go D.C. cancellation on Instagram below.
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Shakira Channels Her Inner She-Wolf at Global Citizen Festival 2025, Delivers Empowering Hits
In addition to the music, the festival shone a light on critical global issues, with commitments to fight poverty, promote sustainability, and drive education initiatives worldwide. Major announcements unveiled to bring clean energy to 4.6 million homes in Africa, protect 25 million hectares in the Amazon, and fund education initiatives for children across 200 communities globally, according to a statement shared with Billboard.
“The Global Citizen Festival is about the collective impact of our artists, global citizens, private sector leaders, and government officials to defeat extreme poverty. Together, this year’s campaign has broken all action-taking records,” Hugh Evans, co-founder and CEO of Global Citizen, said in a press release. “We’re proud to celebrate the achievements of this evening, but the work to end extreme poverty doesn’t stop here. As our movement grows, from Central Park to the Amazon Basin and the G20, Global Citizen will continue to drive action towards achieving our mission.”
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From Rema and Ayra Starr’s surprise collaborations to unforgettable headlining moments from Shakira, Cardi B and Tyla, the festival celebrated the global impact of its mission and the cultural diversity of its performers.
Check out the best moments below, in no particular order. (Plus, you can also watch the Global Citizen 2025 in its entirely on this YouTube link here.)
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“Thank you for the best night of my life,” Zach Bryan told the crowd on Saturday night (Sept. 27) at Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor — which is saying something for a guy who’s had a lot of those during the past seven years.
The 27-song, nearly three-hour show, the 29-year-old country star’s last of 2025, made history on a couple of levels. It was the first-ever full-scale concert at the home of the Michigan Wolverines, known as the Big House, in its 98-year history. It’s also expected to be the largest ticketed concert ever in the U.S., breaking the mark of 110,905 set by country singer George Strait at Texas A&M’s King Field in College Station in June 2024.
An official attendance for Bryan’s show has not been announced, but concert organizers said it had sold more than 112,000 tickets after its Valentine’s Day on-sale sold out completely. Michigan Stadium has an official capacity of 107,601, but additional seating around the center-field stage — the same one Strait played on in Texas — made breaking the record seem entirely likely. The venue has also hosted up to 115,109 for a football game against Notre Dame during September of 2013, along with other events that have drawn more than 112,000.
Rest assured that setting a record was a big part of what Saturday’s show was about. Michigan Stadium has long been a holy grail of venues, with an administration that eschewed the idea of a concert on sacred football ground.
“Twenty, 30 years ago there was this, ‘We’re not gonna do that. It’s sacrilegious’ sort of thing,” Rob Rademacher, chief operating officer of Michigan Athletics, tells Billboard.
But as those figures — among them legendary Michigan football coach and athletic director Bo Schembechler — passed away, and a new era of revenue-sharing collegiate athletics took hold, university officials became more amenable to utilizing the stadium for other events, including outdoor hockey games and soccer matches.
Rademacher said the school began looking at concerts seriously during the early 2000s, and that “10 years ago we were right at the goal line” — reportedly for a Bob Seger concert — “and we got stuffed at fourth (down) and one. For a number of reasons it didn’t happen.”
The idea of the Bryan show was hatched last fall when Aware Records founder Gregg Latterman, now an educator and executive director of Michigan’s Zell Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurship at Michigan’s Ross School of Business, helped facilitate conversations between the school and AEG Presents. An initial desire to have Eminem christen the Big House for concerts did not work out, but AEG, Bryan’s regular promoter, put him in place for the event.
“Zach just wants to do really cool thing,” Rich Schaefer, AEG president of global touring, says. “Coming to Michigan, taking a swing at the (Strait record) was number one on the list. We couldn’t figure out a better place to do it than here.”
Michigan’s Rademacher acknowledged that “we needed to make sure the first (concert) was big. That was really what was driving the conversation from our end. We needed a sellout. We wanted to set a record. They brought in Zach.”
While the school suggested a summer play, AEG insisted on staging the concert during the fall semester, when students would be on campus to help bolster ticket sales.
“It was really more important to sell it out and break the record than it was to make a lot of money,” said Schaefer, noting that some 76,000 tickets were priced under $50 to make them more affordable to students. Interestingly, he added, those were the tickets that sold out first, mostly during a pre-sale for students and season ticket holders, while the more expensive seats moved during the regular on-sale.
Tickets for the show were purchased in all 50 U.S. states, according to AEG. It was the 16th and final show for Bryant — a light but eventful year that included headlining the Stagecoach festival during April, concerts in London and Dublin, Ireland and three sold-out shows at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J.
The smooth-running event in Ann Arbor played like a mini-festival, with six acts — including hand-picked Bryan favorites John Mayer and Ryan Bingham & the Texas Gentlemen — providing nearly seven hours of music, ending with a full fireworks display as Bryan and his band romped through a lengthy encore rendition of “Revival.”
As the formal announcement of the attendance record looms, here are the most memorable moments from another historic win at the Big House.
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Billboard‘s Trevor Anderson, Danielle Pascual and Joe Lynch break down whether Rihanna’s “Breakin’ Dishes,” Olivia Dean’s “Man I Need” and the songs from Cardi B’s Am I the Drama? can potentially make big moves on the Hot 100.
Tetris Kelly: Will Cardi be the drama on the charts? Are we gonna be “Breakin’ Dishes” if Rihanna’s 18-year-old hit doesn’t chart? Will Olivia Dean find the man she needs or a place in the top 20? We’re running through some of the contenders on this week’s Hot 100
Joe Lynch: Rihanna’s “Breakin’ Dishes” gonna make a big splash. You know, this is one of those songs. It is not a new song. This came out in 2007 — it’s an 18-year-old song. The song can vote right now. Look, we don’t have new Rihanna music. So in the absence of new Rihanna music, we’re turning back to old Rihanna music to make it new. “Breakin’ Dishes: going viral on TikTok. I feel like that’s gonna make a top 40 entry.
Tetris Kelly: But Cardi is back with her sophomore album. So where will she land?
Trevor Anderson: For the first time in seven years, you can say the sentence “There is a new Cardi B album.” So of course, Am I the Drama? is set to make a big debut next week, and a lot of the tracks look like they’re doing pretty well in streaming could make some real impacts on Hot 100. Certainly the “Safe” record that features Kehlani has been a favorite between couple of streaming services. But a couple tracks with Summer Walker doing well as well, and “Bodega Baddie” is kind of out here. I’ve heard it a couple times in the streets already. So 23 tracks to pick from, 21 new tracks. There should be a lot of Cardi on next week’s Hot 100.
Tetris Kelly: Will Olivia Dean find the man she needs or a place in the top 20?
Danielle Pascual: Olivia Dean is only going up from here. She is going to be opening for Sabrina Carpenter’s second leg of the Short n’ Sweet tour soon, and we all know what that did for Gracie Abrams on the Eras Tour, if it’s anything like that. Time will tell, of course, but Olivia Dean top 20, I think, is coming.
Tetris Kelly: Will any of these contenders knock “Golden” out of No. 1?
Danielle Pascual: There’s nothing more golden than “Golden.”
Tetris Kelly: Tell us which contender you’re rooting for and tune in next week when we reveal the Billboard Hot 100 top 10.
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Cardi B hit the Global Citizen Festival 2025 stage on Saturday night (Sep. 27) with full-on boss energy, delivering a fire performance that was equal parts attitude and spectacle. Despite her visibly pregnant belly, which looked ready to burst, the Bronx Dominican rapper proved her star power is unshakable as she powered through a set full of bold bars, new bangers, and undeniable charisma.
The rap queen kicked off her set with “Outside,” a track from her brand-new album Am I the Drama? (ErrTime Edition), which dropped earlier this week. Clad in a brown-and-forest-green leather biker crop top that showed off her pregnancy, baggy blue jeans, and reddish hair, Cardi fully owned the moment, surrounded by dancers whose electric choreography amplified the vibe.
Within minutes, though, the heat of her performance also made her hot. “I’m hot AF up here… you want it?,” she said after the first song, tossing her jacket into the audience in a flex only Cardi could pull off.
She then launched into “ErrTime,” another track from her new album, spitting confident bars like, “New bag (Bag), new ice (Ice)/ Shittin’ on these b—hes whole life (Life)/ Fat ass (Ass), want a bite? (Huh?)” The energy was palpable, as Cardi commanded the crowd with equal amounts of humor and swagger.
“Who’s been rolling with Cardi B since day one?!?,” she shouted before performing her 2017 breakout hit “Bodak Yellow.” The entire crowd screamed along: “I make money moves!” — a reminder of how she shook up the rap world nearly a decade ago.
Although her set was quick, wrapping up at 8:50 p.m. ET after just 15 minutes, she ended on a high note with her 2018 smash hit “I Like It.” Originally featuring Bad Bunny and J Balvin, the song brought the crowd to a fever pitch, with its high energy and infectious beat closing out her set in true Cardi style.
Her short but potent performance proved that even while expecting her second child, she’s unstoppable, continuing to bring her signature blend of humor, power, and flashy charisma to the stage. Watch a segment of her performance below.
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Shakira transformed Central Park into her own den of healing and power during her headlining set at the Global Citizen Festival 2025 on Saturday night (Sept. 27). From the first piercing howl to the final shake of her famous hips, she delivered an electrifying performance that was equal parts spectacle and spirit.
Kicking off at 9:30 p.m. ET, the Colombian superstar built anticipation as the “10 Commandments of the She-Wolf” illuminated the massive screens — just like on her successful world stadium tour Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran (Women Don’t Cry Anymore). “You will not ask permission to be yourself.” “You will dance and sing when you need to heal.” “You will choose your path without anyone forcing it upon you,” read some of the empowering declarations. The crowd roared with excitement as a visual of Shakira appeared, the artist morphing between human and wolf in an acrobatic display that heralded the arrival of La Loba herself.
“Awhooooooo!” she howled into the mic, launching straight into her infectious 2009 track “She Wolf.” Clad in the skin-tight beige and lavender bodysuit she made famous on her Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran tour, her blonde hair whipping as she moved, Shakira commanded the stage, surrounded by a dozen high-energy dancers. “I wanna hear you, She-Wolves!” she shouted.
From there, she glided into the viral smash “Shakira: Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 53,” turning the park into a euphoric singalong. The percussion thundered under the weight of the crowd’s collective voice: “Una loba como yo no está pa’ novatos/ Una loba como yo no está pa’ tipos como tú!”
And just when it seemed the energy couldn’t soar any higher, the opening notes of “Whenever, Wherever” brought waves of nostalgia crashing over the crowd. Shakira’s hips needed no introduction, and they didn’t lie as her signature movements left fans thrilled.
Between hits, she paused to reflect, delivering words that highlighted the night’s greater purpose. “I was so thrilled to be here tonight knowing that each one of you is here because you gave your time or your support to someone you don’t know, but who needed it,” she said. “It’s so amazing to be surrounded by so many people who really care. So thank you so much for caring. Thank you so much, Global Citizens, for this initiative.” Ticket purchases support Global Citizen’s mission to end extreme poverty and protect the Amazon rainforest.
Her set took a quieter moment with “Underneath Your Clothes,” but it wasn’t long before the tempo picked back up, with “Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)” her hip movements more exaggerated and hypnotizing than ever.
She closed the night with her Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hit “Hips Don’t Lie,” a finale that burst with vitality and joy. Shakira once again proved that she’s a force of nature — a She-Wolf inspiring her pack to howl, dance, and believe in something bigger than themselves.
Cardi B was the other co-headliner that evening. Rosé, Ayra Starr, Mariah the Scientist, Tyla, Camilo and more also took the stage.
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