Karol G Wows MetLife Stadium With Explosive Viajando Por El Mundo Tropitour

It’s a Thursday night, and Karol G is lighting up New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium with a blast of fireworks and flames, each burst going off in quick succession. This isn’t the first or last time it happens during the night, or even in the string of opening bangers — “Latina Forever,” “Un Gatito Me Llamo,” “QLONA.” In fact, the Colombian superstar’s Viajando Por El Mundo Tropitour set includes so many fireworks and blasts of pyrotechnics, you can’t keep count of them. And yet, each time, it jolts the audience into astonishment.

They may have seen a firework show before, but not one like this. A cave-like structure surrounds Karol as she belts song after song, transforming through an array of sparkly outfit changes, and a troupe of dancers gravitate around her. It’s a true spectacle, and one that encompasses just how major this star has gotten since she last filled this stadium in 2023.

“We haven’t seen each other in two or three years, so I expect you guys to bring the house down,” Karol told the MetLife audience at the start of the show. “We came here to sing, to dance, to cry, to scream. We came here to have a chimba time.”

Karol G has been on a historic winning streak pretty much all of her career, but especially in the last couple of years. After she broke records with her Mañana Será Bonito tour and proved her status as Latin pop royalty, she came back with an even bigger project, Tropicoqueta . On that 2025 LP, she used her position at the top to celebrate her deeply Latin roots. In trusting that instinct to stay true to herself, Karol found even more success. This past April, she became the first woman to headline Coachella and earlier this week, the album earned her seven Latin Grammy nominations .

In between promoting Tropicoqueta and planning the Viajando Por El Mundo Tropitour, Karol managed to find the time to release a whole new album — No Me Arrepiento de Sentir Tanto — and release it right smack in the middle of her tour on Aug. 7. To no one’s surprise, this evocative project is having its own moment, too. Back when Karol kicked off the tour in July at Chicago’s Soldier Field, fans could only speculate that a new album was on the way. Now, the moody blue-coded album has become a seamless part of the set. Editor’s picks The 250 Greatest Albums of the 21st Century So Far The 100 Best TV Episodes of All Time The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century

On Thursday, the new album’s section was one of the highest points of a show filled with peaks, as Karol brought out a handful of special guests to honor her hit song “Bby Wow,” which has topped Spotify’s Global chart for 20 days now, and just entered the Top Ten on Billboard ’s Hot 100. First, Puerto Rican superproducer Tainy joined the stage to spin on a makeshift DJ table; he commanded high energy from the crowd as he added his own production touches to the reggaeton track. Then, Karol’s collaborators Judeline and Rusowsky joined her to perform the track live together for the very first time.

Immediately, MetLife stadium turned into an Ibiza nightclub.