Kali Uchis Launching ‘The Sincerely, Tour’ This August

Kali Uchis is preparing to hit the road…

Trading in intimacy for enormity, the 30-year-old Colombian American Grammy-winning artist will bring her lush, genre-melding sound to arena stages across North America this summer.

Kali UchisThe announcement comes less than a week after Uchis released her most vulnerable album yet, Sincerely. 

With stops at iconic venues like Kia Forum (Aug. 20) and Madison Square Garden (Sep. 11), the 24-date tour, presented by Live Nation, kicks off August 14 in Portland, Oregon, and includes stops in major cities like Miami, Toronto and Chicago, before concluding at the Ball Arena in Denver, Colorado, on September 25.

In support of her fifth studio album Sincerely — which was released on Friday, May 9 — The Sincerely, Tour, like the album, promises to showcase her “most intimate and vulnerable body of work to date,” according to the press release.

“The 14-track record is a testament to the curative power of deep love, and a powerful representation of the way Uchis romanticizes life and her inner world.”

Tickets go on presale starting on Wednesday, May 14, at 10:00 am local time, with more presales happening throughout the week.

General sales begin Friday, May 16, at 10:00 a.m. local time on Kali Uchis’s website.

KALI UCHIS – THE SINCERELY, TOUR DATES:
Aug. 14 – Portland, Ore. – Moda Center
Aug. 15 – Seattle, Wash. – Climate Pledge Arena
Aug. 17 – Sacramento, Calif. – Golden 1 Center
Aug. 18 – San Francisco, Calif. – Chase Center
Aug. 20 – Los Angeles, Calif. – The Kia Forum
Aug. 23 – Palm Desert, Calif. – Acrisure Arena
Aug. 24 – San Diego, Calif. – Pechanga Arena
Aug. 27 – Phoenix, Ariz. – PHX Arena
Aug. 28 – El Paso, Texas – UTEP Don Haskins Center
Aug. 30 – Dallas, Texas – American Airlines Center
Aug. 31 – Austin, Texas – Moody Center
Sep. 2 – Houston, Texas – Toyota Center
Sep. 4 – Orlando, Fla. – Kia Center
Sep. 5 – Miami, Fla. – Kaseya Center
Sep. 7 – Atlanta, Ga. – State Farm Arena
Sep. 8 – Raleigh, N.C. – Lenovo Center
Sep. 11 – New York, N.Y. – Madison Square Garden
Sep. 14 – Boston, Mass. – TD Garden
Sep. 16 – Laval, Quebec – Place Bell
Sep. 17 – Toronto, Ontario – Scotiabank Arena
Sep. 19 – Baltimore, Md. – CFG Bank Arena
Sep. 20 – Philadelphia, Pa. – Wells Fargo Center
Sep. 23 – Chicago, Ill. – United Center
Sep. 25 – Denver, Colo. – Ball Arena

Daddy Yankee’s “La Ultima Vuelta World Tour” Becomes Biggest-Ever Tour of His Career

Daddy Yankee has ended his touring career with a bang…

The 45-year-old Puerto Rican reggaeton superstar has played the final shows of his farewell tour, ending at Miami’s FTX Arena on Thursday, December 22.

Daddy YankeeAccording to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore, La Ultima Vuelta World Tour wrapped with $197.8 million and 1.9 million tickets sold over 83 shows in 2022. That makes it the biggest tour of his career, by a long shot.

The tour kicked off at Denver’s Ball Arena on July 25, and played 33 shows until finishing its first leg at Madison Square Garden. The U.S. and Canada run earned $61.6 million and sold 376,000 tickets before venturing to Latin America.

There, Daddy Yankee hit 22 Spanish-speaking markets and earned $112.7 million and sold 1.383 million tickets.

He then closed the tour with 12 additional American shows, adding $23.4 million and 143,000 tickets to the final count.

With something of a home-field (or language) advantage, Latin American shows averaged $3 million and 36,000 tickets in mostly stadiums, compared to $1.9 million and 12,000 tickets in mostly domestic arenas.

Daddy Yankee’s geographical divide is in contrast with that of the year’s other major Latin tour from Bad Bunny. With more significant crossover success in recent years, Bad Bunny paced a similar 40,000-plus attendance in both territories but earned nearly three times more per show in the U.S. and Canada because of more elastic ticket scaling.

Bad Bunny and Daddy Yankee played a major role in lifting promoter Cardenas Marketing Network to No. 3 on the year-end Top Promoters ranking. After the final show in Miami, Henry Cardenas reflected to Billboard via email on the impact of Daddy Yankee’s final tour and touring career that started on day one.

“It was an unforgettable tour for me and for the entire CMN team. Having produced the farewell tour of the icon and influencer of an entire generation is one of the greatest accomplishments that our company has achieved. In 2005 we were the producers of his first tour, Barrio Fino, and today we say goodbye to him in La Ultima Vuelta. I thank Raymond and Mireddys for giving us the opportunity to be part of this dream that is now a reality and for allowing us to be direct witnesses of their great legacy.”

The La Ultima Vuelta World Tour was 2022’s second-biggest tour in Latin America, besting Bad Bunny’s $80 million-plus total, but falling short of Coldplay’s $127.9 million from two separate legs of Music of the Spheres Tour.

Still, Daddy Yankee’s nearly $2 million average in the states on a robust 45-date routing made for a gargantuan global total. Excluding Latin American dates, La Ultima Vuelta World Tour represents a leap of more than 100% from his previous nightly best. All shows considered, he’s up by 162%.

Regardless of geography or genre, Daddy Yankee finished at No. 13 on the year-end Top Tours chart, ranking artists on their concert business between November 1, 2021-October 31, 2022.

On Billboard’s monthly Top Tours chart, he’s climbed from No. 22 in July to No. 9 to No. 5 and, for October and November, to No. 3 (December’s ranking will publish next month).

Further, in the calendar year of 2022, Daddy Yankee has the sixth-highest grossing tour worldwide, behind Bad Bunny, Elton John, Coldplay, Ed Sheeran and Harry Styles.

And even beyond his year-end achievements, La Ultima Vuelta World Tour finishes as the second-highest grossing Latin tour in Boxscore history, sandwiched between Bad Bunny’s World’s Hottest Tour ($314.1 million) and El Ultimo Tour Del Mundo ($116.8 million).