that of 2023 will be more than ever year of concerts in stadiums in Spain with the celebration of huge performances from international stars such as Metallica, Coldplay, Bruce Springsteen, Harry Styles, Rammstein or The Weeknd and in the case of the Foral Community with the start of the round of Alexander Sanz in the Arena of Navarre.

It will be between spring and summer, but the first months will not be exempt from the visit of foreign personalities like the Canadian michael bubblewhich will put its audience to sleep on January 30 at the Wizink Center in Madrid and on February 1 at the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona.

They will land there on March 9 sprites to present their new album, “Doggerel”, which they will take to the Wizink Center one day later. This same sequence, but 24 hours later, will be repeated by the British lewis capaldi.

At the Palau Sant Jordi he will stop twice Robbie Williams on March 24 and 25, only after young Yungblud (day 12) and veteran Roger Waters (21), who will also perform his farewell tour at Madrid’s former Palacio de Deportes on the 23rd and 24th.

On March 31, he will take over on this stage Eros Ramazzotti, who will travel to Barcelona on April 2. His compatriots from Maneskin will also perform there on April 11.

YEAR OF CONCERTS AT THE STADIUM

The calendar intensifies with the arrival of sprinter at the Olympic Stadium on April 28 and 30 with all tickets sold.

What was the main stage of the 1992 Olympic Games will host more important events in the following weeks, such as the four concerts of cold play in Spain on May 24, 25, 27 and 28 with the same box office success as The Boss.

There, it will also be necessary Harry Styles his “Love On Tour” on July 12 (on July 14 he will visit the new Mad Cool space in Madrid) and a few days later he will share the Canadian’s first visit to Spain on tour with the Estadio Metropolitano in Madrid The weekend. It will be the 18th in the capital and the 20th in Barcelona.

The home of Atlético de Madrid will also enjoy exclusive events, such as the German concert Rammstein June 23 and especially the ambitious “tour” of metallic on July 12 and 14 with their first album in 6 years.

ELTON JOHN, THE WHO AND OTHER IDOLS

The list of notable gigs by former music stars doesn’t end there. In May, for example, Ozzy Osbourne near Judas Priest in the first part, they will storm the Wizink Center on the 10th; Elton John on the 22nd of this month he will do the same with his farewell tour at the Palau Sant Jordi, where he will also play WHO on June 14 and Iron Maiden on July 18.

That same month, another legend. Rod Stewart He will perform on the 12th at the Wizink Center, on the 20th at the Murcia bullring, on the 21st at the Starlite festival in Marbella (Málaga) and on the 22nd at the Concert Music Festival in Chiclana (Cádiz).

With less seniority but a lot of public appeal, the Americans Brown 5 (June 15 at the former Palacio de Deporte in Madrid and June 16 at the Palau Sant Jordi) as Arctic Monkeys with which he is considered one of the best albums of 2022, “The car”. The British will only go through the Wizink Center but on a double date, July 10 and 11.

To all this offer, it is also appropriate to add another beautiful harvest of festivals which will bring the talent of Blur, Kendrick Lamar and Rosalia (at Primavera Sound in Barcelona, ​​which will be doubled for the first time with another venue in Madrid), Lil Nas X, Lizzo, Queens of The Stone Age, Sam Smith or Red Hot Chili Peppers (in Mad Cool) and Florence + The Machine and the Chemical Brothers (at Bilbao BBK Live), to name a few.

SABINA RETURNS ON SCENES

Nor will it be a weak year for major national figures such as Joaquin Sabina, who, “against all odds”, will return to the stage three years after his fatal fall from one of them. In Spain, it kicks off on April 20 at the Gran Canaria Arena in Las Palmas and, among many other cities, it will play May 23-25 ​​at the place it fell into the pit from, the Wizink Center.

Alexander Sanz will resume next summer the “Sanz en vivo” tour with a new concert tour that will cross 14 cities since its launch on June 3 in Navarra Arena in Pamplona.

Other stars will begin tours with recently released albums, such as Pablo Alboran (since May 20 at the Marenostrum of Fuengirola, in Malaga), vanessa martin (from May 27 in the bullring of Murcia) or Manuel Carrasco (from July 1 at the Iberoamericano stadium in Huelva and, after the “record” attendance of 2022, with a double tour of the La Cartuja stadium in Seville on June 2 and 3).

Some will be tested with large crowds, like Jorge Drexlerwhich will debut at the Wizink Center on January 28, or bad girlwho will do so on February 17, before heading to the Palau Sant Jordi on February 11.

And we cannot forget the long-awaited first “tour” of Quevedo, the canary who, thanks to “Quédate”, conquered the world number 1 on Spotify for 7 weeks a year. It will be at the Gran Canaria Arena on March 11, at the Wizink Center on May 5 and at the Sant Jordi Club in Barcelona on May 12.