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The South African
5 hours ago
- Entertainment
- The South African
Shakira's record-breaking tour hits snag with cancelled show
Shakira's recent streak of concert cancellations has left fans disappointed, but the Colombian superstar remains resolute and grateful for their support. The 48-year-old pop icon was forced to cancel her third show in just a few days. The singer pulled out of her much-anticipated WorldPride 2025 opening concert in Washington, DC, at Nationals Park on Saturday, 31 May. The cancellation came as a direct result of production complications following her previous cancelled shows in Boston's Fenway Park, according to Daily Mail. City inspectors found structural issues with the stage setup in Boston, deeming it unsafe and below standard. This led to the abrupt cancellation of her shows there. These problems then cascaded, making it impossible to transport her full tour production to Washington, DC, in time for the WorldPride event. Shakira expressed her heartbreak over the cancellations. 'Due to circumstances beyond my control, I am sad and heartbroken that I will not be able to be in Washington, D.C. with you tomorrow. I hope that I can come back to D.C. as soon as I am able. Meanwhile, please know that I am eternally thankful for your unconditional support'. Despite the setbacks, she promised to do everything in her power to reunite with her fans soon. The WorldPride festival is the largest LGBTQ+ event globally and a significant celebration during Pride Month. It was set to kick off with Shakira as the headliner. The Capital Pride Alliance, organisers of WorldPride, expressed their disappointment. They assured fans that the event's opening ceremony would be relocated and restructured, with the rest of the citywide festivities continuing as planned. While the cancellations have been a blow, Shakira can still celebrate a major career milestone. Her Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran tour has shattered records. It has becoming the highest-grossing Latin American concert tour by a female artist, surpassing Karol G's Mañana Será Bonito tour. The tour has grossed an impressive $130 million (approximately R2.7 billion) from 21 shows across Mexico and South America. This ranked it second globally on the 2025 midyear Billboard Boxscore Report, just behind Coldplay. Shakira's tour has not been without its challenges. Earlier in the tour, she was hospitalised in Lima, Peru, and had to postpone shows in Medellín and Santiago due to health and safety concerns. She also suffered a fall on stage during a high-energy performance in Montreal but continued the show professionally. Ticket holders for the cancelled Washington and Boston shows will receive automatic refunds through Ticketmaster and Fans who purchased tickets through other vendors were advised to contact their sellers directly. Despite the recent disappointments, Shakira's record-breaking success and will be back on stage soon, ready to deliver the unforgettable performances her fans deserve. Let us know by leaving a comment below, or send a WhatsApp to 060 011 021 1. Subscribe to The South African website's newsletters and follow us on WhatsApp, Facebook, X and Bluesky for the latest news.
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Beéle Wins Big at 2025 Heat Latin Music Awards: Complete Winners List
Beéle was the top winner at the 2025 Heat Latin Music Awards that aired on Thursday, May 29 from Medellín, Colombia on TeleMedellín and the LosHeat app. The Colombian breakout star and this month's Billboard Latin Artist on the Rise took home four of seven of his nominations including best urban artist and best collaboration for 'La Plena' with W Sound and Ovy on the Drums. More from Billboard Zak Starkey Rubbishes Reports He Retired from The Who, Insists He Was 'Fired' Lorde Makes Surprise Appearance at Aotearoa Music Awards Bone Thugs-N-Harmony Perform 1996 Hit 'Tha Crossroads' on 'Everybody's Live' Popularly known as Premios Heat, other winners at this year's event included Kapo as best new artist; Elena Rose as composer of the year; Karol G as best female artist; and Bad Bunny's DeBÍ TIRAR MÁS FOTOS as album of the year; to name a few. Founded by Colombian music executive and Billboard Latin Power Player Diana Montes, Premios Heat was previously celebrated on the beach in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. This is the first time the event takes place in Colombia. See the complete 2025 Heat Latin Music Awards winners list below:Best Male ArtistFeid Best Female ArtistKarol G Best Duo or Group Chyno & Nacho Best Rock Artist Mar Rendón Best Pop Artist Elena Rose Best Urban ArtistBeéle Best Tropical ArtistEddy Herrera Best Salsa Artist Yiyo Sarante Best Southern Region ArtistAnitta Best Andean Region Artist Beéle Best Northern Region ArtistJay Wheeler Best New Artist Kapo Musical PromiseMiguel Bueno Influencer of the YearCalle y Poché Best Regional ArtistJessi Uribe Best Dominican Urban ArtistYailin La Más Viral Best Music Video'Si antes te hubiera conocido' – Karol G Best Collaboration'La Plena' – W Sound, Beéle, Ovy On The Drums Best Video Content PlatformAlofoke Media DJ of the YearDJ Adoni Song of the Year'Si antes te hubiera conocido' – Karol G Producer of the YearOvy On The Drums Director of the Year Evaluna Montaner Album of the YearDeBÍ TIRAR MÁS FOTOS – Bad Bunny Best Viral Song'La Plena' – W Sound, Beéle, Ovy On The Drums Composer of the YearElena Rose Best Song for Videogames, Series or Movies'Cuéntame' De Me Atrevo a Amarte – Majo Aguilar, Alex Fernández Fandom of the YearTeam Chivirikas – Yailin La Más Viral Best Religious Song'Tiempos Buenos' – Farruko, Madiel Lara Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Janet Jackson's Biggest Billboard Hot 100 Hits H.E.R. & Chris Brown 'Come Through' to No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay Chart
Daily Mail
3 days ago
- Business
- Daily Mail
Shakira makes history as she breaks records on Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran tour - after singer slipped on stage
Shakira 's Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran tour has become the highest grossing Latin American concert by a female artist. The Columbian singer, 48, has made history after surpassing Karol G 's Mañana Será Bonito song. Her Mexican and South American shows have grossed a staggering $130million (£96million) with 21 shows. It's a close comparison to Columbian singer Karol G's previous tour record of $125 million (£92million) with 29 shows. According to Billboard, Shakira is the only Latin tour to reach Top 10 of the 2025 midyear Boxscore Report, ranking No. 2 globally. From A-list scandals and red carpet mishaps to exclusive pictures and viral moments, subscribe to the DailyMail's new Showbiz newsletter to stay in the loop. Shakira fell on stage during a performing Whenever, Wherever last week at the Bell Centre in Montreal - coming weeks after concerns of a Measles outbreak at a concert she performed in New Jersey earlier this month. The three-time Grammy winner was in the middle of performing the high-energy track - a top 10 hit on Billboard 's charts in late 2001 - when she slipped and hit the ground. A fan posted a clip of the fall on Instagram Stories, depicting the South American singer, whose full name is Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll, losing her balance sideways and hitting the ground. The Hips Don't Lie hitmaker - who has been on the road on her Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran Tour - dusted herself off and continued with her performance. One user said on X that Shakira 'handled it like the boss that she is,' while another called the entertainer's refusal to let the slip derail the show 'a great example of resilience! The commenter added, "Hope she didn't get injured. Such falls cause pains and injuries the next morning.' The slip was one in a number of complications Shakira and her team have faced on the road this time around. The May 15 show at MetLife Stadium led the New Jersey Department of Health to publicly state that those who attended 'could develop symptoms [of measles] as late as June 6'. Shakira fell on stage during a performing Whenever, Wherever last Tuesday at the Bell Centre in Montreal. The three-time Grammy winner was in the middle of performing the high-energy track - a top 10 hit on Billboard's charts in late 2001 - when she slipped and hit the ground Authorities in the Garden State said that anyone who was present at the venue - which hosts the NFL's New York Giants and New York Jets - between the evening May 15 into early on May 16 could have been exposed to the airborne virus. Health officials said that a person who was infected with measles was present at the show for the superstar songstress, who has past worked on collaborations with Rihanna, Beyonce and the Black Eyed Peas. Shakira has also dealt with an 'abdominal issue' that led her to cancel a February 16 show at Peru's National Stadium after visiting a hospital over it the prior day. 'I am sorry to inform you all that last night I had to go to the ER for an abdominal issue and am currently hospitalized,' the Waka Waka (This Time for Africa) artist said via Instagram Stories. The Underneath Your Clothes artist - who is mother to sons, Milan, 12, and Sasha, 10 with ex Gerard Piqué, 38, is due to visit the U.S. capital for a show on May 31 at Nationals Park. That will be followed by concerts in large cities such as Atlanta, Orlando, Miami, San Antonio and Houston, among other destinations.
New York Times
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Karol G's Ode to Curves, Plus 7 More New Songs
Every Friday, pop critics for The New York Times weigh in on the week's most notable new tracks. Listen to the Playlist on Spotify here (or find our profile: nytimes) and at Apple Music here, and sign up for The Amplifier, a twice-weekly guide to new and old songs. Karol G: 'Latina Foreva' The Colombian singer and rapper Karol G cheerfully fends off some unwanted male attention by praising Latin women instead: 'Those curves don't even exist in NASCAR.' The inventive pop-reggaeton production stays light and changeable, with little keyboard blips and string lines making sure the familiar beat is always laced with bits of melody. Alejandro Sanz featuring Shakira: 'Bésame' Husky meets breathy in 'Bésame' ('Kiss Me'), the new duet by Alejandro Sanz, from Spain, and Shakira, from Colombia: a 20-years-later reconnection after their 2005 megahit 'La Tortura.' They trade endearments over a track that connects Latin pop to Nigerian Afrobeats — and, in the bridge, tosses in some flamenco handclaps for more trans-Atlantic fusion. Guedra Guedra: 'Drift of Drummer' Abdellah M. Hassak, the Moroccan electronic producer, records as Guedra Guedra. Guedra is a Tuareg dance that shares its name with a cook pot that becomes a drum when covered with an animal skin. 'Drift of Drummer' mixes field recordings that Hassak gathered in his travels across Africa with hand drum machines and synthesizers. Juggling ever-changing layers of percussion over a brisk implied pulse and a terse bass line, the song is a cauldron of rhythms, humanized by snippets of speaking voices. St. Vincent featuring Mon Laferte: 'Tiempos Violentos' St. Vincent is joined by another high-drama songwriter and singer, Mon Laferte, for a third iteration of 'Violent Times,' which appeared on her 2024 album 'All Born Screaming' and its Spanish-language version, 'Todos Nacen Gritando.' The ominous horns, looming drumbeats and James Bond-theme chords of the original track remain. Where Laferte takes over certain lines, she brings her own sharp-clawed sweetness. Stereolab: 'Melodie Is a Wound' In the 15 years between the band's studio albums — and extensive archival releases in the interim — Stereolab has had ample time to assess and focus its strengths and ambitions. Its new album, 'Instant Holograms On Metal Film,' reinvigorates and concentrates all of Stereolab's best ideas from the 1990s: perky minimalist cycles, odd meters, amiable pop melodies, wavery analog synthesizer tones and calm denunciations of oppressive power structures. In 'Melodie Is a Wound,' Laetitia Sadier warns about, among other things, disinformation that's meant to 'Snuff out the very idea of clarity / Strangle your longing for truth and trust.' The seven-minute track detours into an instrumental coda that starts out breezy, dissolves into noise, reassembles itself and then proceeds to climb through changes of key and texture that cannot contain a rising anxiety. Julia Michaels: 'Try Your Luck' Flirtation can be fraught. Julia Michaels urges a timid suitor to 'Try Your Luck,' offering advice with equal parts nonchalance, encouragement, amusement and exasperation: 'If you want the goal, then you gotta shoot the puck,' she sings, backed by easygoing, guitar-scrubbing R&B. 'I could be into it too, depending on you,' she nudges, waiting for the hint to be taken. Laura Stevenson: 'Honey' Romance is thorny and ill-starred for Laura Stevenson in 'Honey.' 'No one's come close enough to ever love me back,' she sings. 'I'm not enough, I never am.' What starts out modest and folky, with a lone guitar and then a country-ish band, metamorphoses into a psychedelic reverie, at first delicate and then buffeted by distorted guitars as all her troubled longing surfaces. Kieran Hebden and William Tyler: 'If I Had a Boat' In a thoroughly unexpected collaboration, the electronic musician Kieran Hebden (who also performs as Four Tet) joins the meditative guitarist William Tyler for an 11-minute instrumental fantasia on Lyle Lovett's 'If I Had a Boat,' from an album due in September. Tyler fingerpicks the song's cozy, folky chord progression partway through. But most of the track forges electroacoustic hybrids: sustained resonances, metronomic blips, what might be either scraped strings or synthesizer tones. It trades Lovett's verbal free associations for sonic ones.
Metro
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Metro
New Netflix movie dominates charts with 35 million views
Steve Charnock Published May 22, 2025 2:14pm Updated May 23, 2025 1:32pm Link is copied Comments Streaming kingpins Netflix have a new movie dominating their most watched chart. One which has amassed a seriously impressive 35,300,000 watches in its first 10 days. It's not alone in racking up eyebrow-raising viewing figures in the past week, though. The chart has all sorts. Although, curiously, it's the first time in a long while that there's been no kids' movies in the top 10. What there is, however, is a couple of fascinating documentaries, some action flicks, foreign dramas and a touching, if slightly cliched, Spanish romance. Here is a countdown of the latest global top 10 Netflix movie chart... (Picture: Getty Images) 'Karol G' might not be a household name to many English-speaking folk, but in Latin America the 34 year-old Colombian singer is an icon. This documentary on her meteoric rise to pop superstardom takes viewers from her humble beginnings back in Medellín, right through to her current life as a hugely famous and well-loved Grammy award-winning artist (Picture: Netflix) Spike Lee's 2006 film Inside Man starred Denzel Washington, Jodie Foster and Clive Owen and is one of the finest, most tense bank heist movies ever made. This rather low-budget 2019 sequel stars no one of the same standing (unless you count Better Call Saul's Rhea Seehorn) and is nowhere near as fine or tense as its predecessor. Still, plenty of Netflix subscribers have seen it over the past week, largely due - you have to assume - because they enjoyed the far superior first movie. It's another bank heist and another hostage situation (Picture: Netflix) Brian Johnson is an unusual man. A hugely successful social media influencer, he strongly advocates living like a caveman. His main advice? Eat raw meat - specially uncooked liver. For years he's pushed an extreme lifestyle which appears quite unhealthy, even dangerous. All while looking like a Greek god. So he must be onto something, right? Well, maybe not. This Netflix documentary successfully exposes many of The Liver King's dangerous lies (Picture: Netflix) Inspired by the real-life story of Uzma Ahmed, this gripping Hindi drama follows an Indian diplomat's tense mission to bring home a young Indian woman trapped in Pakistan after being allegedly deceived into a forced marriage. Starring John Abraham and Sadia Khateeb, the film blends a fair amount political intrigue with some real emotional depth, all set against the complex backdrop of India-Pakistan relations. It's a pretty powerful look at diplomacy, personal sacrifice and the human cost behind international headlines. Something that often gets forgotten about (Picture: Netflix) The sixth most-watched movie globally this week is one that plenty of action film fans were looking forward to for some years. Gareth Evans' Havoc was something of a disappointment to big fans of Evans' previous work like The Raid. And even a fair amount of Tom Hardyphiles. But, while it's no classic (in fact, it's actually very messy), there's enough raucous gunfights to keep casual viewers pleased enough here. It's still doing well on Netflix, considering it's now been available to stream for a month (Picture: Netflix) Known as 'Balle Perdue' in its native France, Lost Bullet is a 2020 action thriller directed by Guillaume Pierret. The plot follows Lino (Alban Lenoir), a skilled mechanic with a criminal past, who is recruited by the police to modify vehicles for high-speed pursuits. When he's framed for murder, Lino is forced to find a missing car containing the only evidence - a single bullet - in order to prove his innocence. The car chases and action scenes are ace and the film proved a hit. So some sequels were made. The third in the trilogy - the cleverly-titled 'Last Bullet' - has everything the previous movies had. And more. This is a lot of fun, as almost eight million people found out last week (Picture: Netflix) This gripping but flawed German action thriller stars Jeanne Goursaud as Sara Wulf, an ex-Special Forces soldier whose son vanishes inside the US Consulate in Frankfurt. As officials deny his presence, Sara uncovers a conspiracy involving a corrupt official, played by Dougray Scott. It's received pretty mixed write-ups, though some reviewers praised Goursaud's performance. While other critics found the story a little too familiar. Despite this, it topped Netflix charts globally the other week and remains popular with fans of high-stakes thrillers (Picture: Netflix) This disturbing documentary delves into the tragic 2015 murder of Irish widower Jason Corbett by his American wife, Molly Martens (and her father, Tom Martens). The film explores the complexities of their relationship, the subsequent legal battles and the emotional toll taken on Jason's children, Jack and Sarah, who were caught in the crossfire of conflicting narratives. Through honest, intimate interviews, the documentary presents a multifaceted view of a quite bizarre murder case. As almost 13 million Netflix subscribers discovered last week (Picture: Netflix) Bad Influence (or 'Mala influencia' if you speak Spanish) is a rom-dram released this year and the first film directed by Chloé Wallace. Based on a popular Wattpad story, it follows the unlikely duo of wealthy school girl and socialite, Reese, and the troubled orphaned ex-con, Eros. When Reese experiences a stalker, her father, Bruce, hires Eros to be her bodyguard - much to the teen's initial dismay. The film stars Alberto Olmo and Eléa Rochera, both of who bring some pretty big emotions to the screen. Critics weren't exactly kind to it, but that doesn't stop a movie from being a hit with people looking for a bit of casual entertainment (Picture: Netflix) If you've never heard the word 'Nonnas' before, we'll fill you in - it's an affectionate term for Italian or Italian-American grandmothers or grandmother-like figures. This new Netflix Original stars Vince Vaughn as a guy with a good few nonnas of his own. There's Susan Sarandon, Lorraine Bracco, Talia Shire and Brenda Vaccaro. All of whom pitch in to help Vince's Joe character save his failing restaurant business. It's a sweet movie and it's really found its audience. Can it hold onto its top spot next week? We'll find out soon... (Picture: Netflix)
