Shakira

The global success came in 2001 with her album Laundry Service, which sold over 13 million copies. This album popularized the fusion and mixing of Arabic and Latin sounds and positioned her at the top of the Anglo-Saxon market as the leading crossover artist. She is featured in number 172 of the Definitive 200 of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.In 2002, Shakira embarked on her first major international tour, the Tour de la Mangosta, which grossed around 72 million dollars. In 2006-7, she launched her Fijación Oral Tour, which grossed 156 million dollars and became the first tour by a female Latin artist to gross over 100 million dollars.

In 2010-2011, she completed her Sale el Sol World Tour, which grossed 98 million dollars. In 2018, she performed her El Dorado World tour, which grossed 96 million dollars. In 2025, she embarked on her most extensive tour of her career, Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour, which has grossed over 421.6 million dollars and sold 3.3 million tickets, making it the highest-grossing and most attended Latin tour in history and placing it in the top 5 of the largest female tours of all time.The magazine Billboard described her career as one of the most established in the American music scene, selecting her as the best female Latin artist of the decade twice (2000-2010) and placing three of her singles among the twenty most important Latin songs in the history of Billboard, «Chantaje», «La tortura» and «Suerte», placing them at positions n.º 6, n.º 7 and n.º 16.

Similarly, she was the only female artist in the top 50 of Billboard's most successful Latin songs of the 2010s, placing «Chantaje» at position n.º 18. In 2020, the magazine Rolling Stone placed her album ¿Dónde están los ladrones? among the 500 best of all time, at position 496, being the only rock album in Spanish on the list, and also placed «Hips Don't Lie» at position n.º 41 of the 50 most successful Latin songs of all time. The singer also became the first South American artist to have a song number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. In 2005, Shakira set the record for the best-selling Spanish album in a week in the United States, with Fijación oral vol.

1. By the end of 2017, Shakira became the first artist to have four Spanish songs from a single album enter the Billboard Hot 100, the main music chart in the United States. She is also the only artist who has performed consecutively at three FIFA World Cups. In 2017, she released her album El Dorado, which became one of the most streamed Latin albums of all time.