Shakira 2026 kept the focus on the music and the moment in San Jose on Saturday, when she played her second consecutive night at SAP Center as part of the Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour. The set ran 100 minutes plus, turning a World Cup period into a very local box-office event.
That local event also carried bigger stakes: Shakira is making a record-setting fourth appearance at the 2026 World Cup, a run that includes singing the official 2026 World Cup song Dai Dai with Burna Boy in Mexico City on June 11 and heading toward the first-ever World Cup Finals halftime show on July 18 in New Jersey with Madonna and BTS.
SAP Center crowd and setlist
The San Jose show drew a packed crowd at SAP Center and stretched past two dozen songs, with Shakira moving through Spanish and English material. The set included La fuerte, Girl Like Me, Can’t Remember to Forget You, and Antología, which gave the night enough catalog weight to keep the room engaged even after the late start.
The staging did its part. A Shakira-led parade of dancers moved through the crowd and up onto the stage, the production added space-age robot dancers and a mermaid sequence, and a long catwalk pushed the performance deep into the audience. That kind of setup is built for scale, and San Jose got it in full.
June 11 to July 18
On June 11, Shakira already had a World Cup-linked presence when she performed Dai Dai with Burna Boy at the kickoff match in Mexico City. By Saturday, she had shifted that same tournament-facing visibility to North America, where the tour continues to pull major attendance and keep her tied to the World Cup edition in public view.
In 2025, she drew some 33,000 music lovers at Oracle Park in San Francisco, a useful marker for how quickly the live draw has held up in this region. The Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour has now taken in well over $400 million in ticket sales and holds the Guinness World Record for the highest grossing tour of all time by a Latin artist, which is why a single night in San Jose lands like an industry event, not just another stop.
Eight-thirty start, later landing
The friction came from timing. The show began about a good hour after the 8:30 p.m. ticket time, and by the end some families with young children looked tired even as the show was described as energetic and successful. That gap between ticketed start and actual downbeat is the practical detail anyone holding a seat cares about first.
For the next chapter, the clearest marker is July 18 in New Jersey, where Shakira joins Madonna and BTS for the first-ever World Cup Finals halftime show. If San Jose was the warm-up to this World Cup run, the halftime slot is the larger stage and the sharper test.
