Brazil has definitively marked its name on the list of important places for pop music in 2024. To justify this statement, it would be enough to mention that our country was the place chosen by Madonna, the queen of the genre, to perform the biggest concert of his career and end the tour that celebrated 40 years of his career in music.
But it didn’t stop there. Brazil was also the stage for an exclusive tour of 15 shows by Bruno Mars, hosted the launch of Katy Perry’s new album, was the first country in the world to hear some of Shawn Mendes’ new songs live and even hosted an isolated show by The Weeknd entitled to release the song “São Paulo”, in partnership with Anitta.
Check out great moments from pop stars in Brazil in 2024:
Madonna
The sands of Copacabana beach hosted the last show of “The Celebration Tour”, which celebrated Madonna’s 40th anniversary. According to Riotur, which is not only the biggest audience of the queen of pop’s career, but also of any female artist.
The show was attended by Anitawho was chosen to participate in the presentation of in addition to Pablo Vittar and a group of young rhythmists from samba schools who also participated in the show.
Bruno Mars
Singer Bruno Mars put together a sequence of 15 shows across Brazil, in five different cities: São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, Brasília and Curitiba. In addition to enjoying the country with his brother, the Hawaiian also used the presentations and his time here to release his single, with South Korean singer “Rosé”, a former member of Blackpink.
It was also here that he gave the first performance of , a duet between Bruno Mars and Lady Gaga that has been among the most listened to songs in the world since its release in August.
Shawn Mendes
This was the stage chosen by Shawn Mendes to give the first live performances of “Why Why Why”, “Nobody Knows”, “Isn’t That Enough” and “Heart Of Gold” — which hadn’t even been released at the time. This was the first taste of the “For Friends And Family Only” tour, with which the Canadian has traveled the world to promote his fifth studio album.
The owner of hits such as “There’s Nothing Holding Me Back” and “Treat You Better” returns to Brazil in 2025 with the tour to perform at , in São Paulo, in March.
Katy Perry
Moments before , , her sixth studio album. Making the first performance of the “Women’s World” tour, the North American sang for the first time in a show some of the songs from the new project, such as “Gorgeous”, “I’m His, He’s Mine” and “Woman’s World”.
The Weeknd
In addition to playing an isolated show on the “After Hours Til Dawn Tour” in São Paulo, singer The Weeknd also used the performance in the city to perform, which should be incorporated into the album “Hurry Up Tomorrow”, which hits music platforms in January 2025.
“Dancing in the Flames”, “Run Away” and “In Heaven” opened the Canadian’s show at MorumBIS, which also featured the first screening of , the singer and actor’s duet with Brazilian Anitta.
