Shakira gives a surprise mini-concert in New York for the launch of her new album

In the battle for buzz with high-sounding figures, Shakira wanted to strike a big blow. The Colombian singer, who has been in trouble for months with the Spanish tax authorities, announced on her Instagram account on Wednesday a surprise concert in Time Square, just a few hours before the start of the event. Objective: to celebrate the release of Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran, his new album. Perched on the TSX stage which overlooks the Broadway intersection, the singer prides herself on having attracted more than 40,000 spectators. This would be an attendance record for a concert organized on stage, inaugurated last summer, after the Post Malone show and that of Jung Kook, of BTS, which each attracted 10,000 people. A good promotional move, in any case, even if the audience was probably much smaller than its producers announced.

Shakira begins her 15-minute mini-concert with a cover of her global hit Hips Don’t Lie, released in 2005 in the album Oral Fixation Vol. 2. She continues with songs from her latest album. The 47-year-old singer took the opportunity to perform BZRP Music Session, Vol.53, her song which attacks Gérard Piqué, her ex-husband. In 2022, their breakup made the rounds on social networks, Shakira accusing the former footballer of having cheated on her and of having “changed a Ferrari for a Twingo”.

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The title Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 53, in collaboration with Argentina's Bizarrap, earned the 47-year-old pop star and the 25-year-old producer two Latin Grammys last year. It reached No. 1 on the Billboard charts and broke four Guinness World Records for views on YouTube and streams on Spotify.