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By the time Bad Bunny’s Debí Tirar Más Fotos World Tour reaches its 2026 dates, it’s already clear this isn’t just a successful tour but rather a recalibration of what stadium touring looks like in the streaming era. Launched in the final weeks of 2025, the run has been tearing through records once held by Shakira, Karol G, and even Bad Bunny himself.
The tour opened November 21–22 with two sold-out shows at Estadio Olímpico in Santo Domingo, grossing $7.9 million on 64,200 tickets, making it the highest-grossing engagement in the venue’s history, surpassing Coldplay, Justin Bieber, and Karol G, and edging past Bad Bunny’s own $7.7 million performance there in 2022. A few weeks later in San José, Costa Rica, he went bigger: two nights at Estadio Nacional pulled in $12.4 million and 115,000 tickets, again breaking the venue’s previous records.
Then came Mexico City, still the ultimate stress test for global stadium pop. Across eight shows at Estadio GNP Seguros in December, Bad Bunny grossed $86.7 million and sold 518,000 tickets, outperforming Shakira’s 2025 run at the same venue. The shows averaged $10.8 million per night, making him the first artist to post eight-figure nightly grosses in the stadium’s history.
So far, Debí Tirar Más Fotos has grossed $107 million and sold 697,000 tickets in its first 12 shows, already surpassing the pace of his previous Latin American tours by a wide margin. Where the World’s Hottest Tour averaged $3.7 million per night in 2022, Debí Tirar Más Fotos is running at nearly $9 million.
The tour resumes January 9 in Santiago before a South American run, then heads to Australia, Asia, and Europe for Bad Bunny’s first-ever ticketed shows in those regions. With most of the tour still ahead, these early numbers don’t feel like a hot start but feel like a shift in the globalization of Latin music. Bad Bunny isn’t just breaking touring records. He’s revolutionizing the metrics utilized to measure success.
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