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Shakira Takes Over Times Square With Free Pop-Up Show to Celebrate New Album


The Colombian superstar drew around 40,000 people at her surprise concert on Tuesday night (March 26) in New York City.

The countdown reached Times Square nine months early on Tuesday night (March 26), where thousands of people gathered at the iconic tourist destination, not to watch the famous New Year’s Eve ball drop but the Colombian superstar Shakira. The artist surprised her followers with a “pop-up” concert announced just hours earlier on her social media, and about 40,000 fans, according to figures provided by the organizers, responded to her call to celebrate her first LP in seven years, Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran, released last Friday. Dressed in black pants and top with silver embellishments, the self-proclaimed She-Wolf delighted the crowd by singing live, along with a band and a group of dancers, songs such as “Te Felicito”, “TQM”, “Cómo Dónde y Cuándo” and “Puntería”, before closing with the mega hit “Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol.

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