TOUR TIDBITS: GHOST GOES BIG, SHAKIRA'S IN STADIUMS

With Halloween right around the corner, highly theatrical, masked Swedish hard-rock band Ghost has announced its most ambitious tour to date, comprising more than 50 Live Nation-promoted shows next year across the U.S., Europe, U.K. and Mexico.

Managed by Rick Sales and Kristen Mulderig at the RSE Group, Ghost will alight at AO Arena in Manchester, England, on 4/15. The North American leg begins 7/9 at CFG Bank Arena in Baltimore and is highlighted by the band's 7/22 debut at Madison Square Garden and a 9/24 finale at Palacio De Los Deportes in Mexico City.

Ghost is booked by IAG in North America and by John Jackson of K2 Agency in the remaining territories. The band's last trek, 2023's RE-IMPERATOUR, was chronicled by the documentary RITE HERE RITE NOW and its accompanying soundtrack.

STADIUM BOUND: Shakira (WME) has beefed up her 2025 road work, her first in seven years, to include dates across North America; the NA leg of the Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour has thus shifted from this year to spring 2025, with several markets upgraded to stadiums.

Next year's dates will begin 5/13 in Charlotte, North Carolina, at Bank of America Stadium, followed by visits to MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles and venues in Toronto, Boston, Miami, Las Vegas and more. The string of performances will succeed a Latin American leg for which 18 stadium shows went clean in less than two hours.