This year that has just begun will be more than ever one of concerts in Spain, one of live celebrations and one of massive festivals led by international stars such as Metallica, Coldplay, Bruce Springsteen, Harry Styles, Rammstein or The Weeknd.

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 Bublé, who will put his audience to sleep on January 30 at the Wizink Center in Madrid and on February 1 at the Palau Sant Jordan from Barcelona.

The Pixies will also stop there on March 9 to present their new album, Doggerel, which they will take to the Wizink Center the next day. This same sequence, but 24 hours later, will be repeated by the Briton Lewis Capaldi.

Bruce Springsteen. – Photo: EFERobbie Williams will play the Palau twice on March 24 and 25, following youngster Yungblud (12) and veteran Roger Waters (21), who will also make his farewell tour to Madrid’s former Palacio de Deportes on March 23. and 24.

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

The schedule intensifies with Sprinsteen arriving at the Olympic Stadium on April 28 and 30 with all tickets sold.

Metallica. – Photo: EFEWhat was once the grand stage of the 1992 Olympics will host bigger events in the coming weeks, such as Coldplay’s four concerts on May 24, 25, 27 and 28 with the same box office success as The Boss.

Harry Styles will also take his Love On Tour there on July 12 (on July 14 he will go to Mad Cool) and a few days later he will share at the Madrid Metropolitano the first visit to Spain on tour by Canadian The Weeknd. It will be the 18th in the capital and the 20th in Barcelona.

The home of Atlético will also enjoy exclusive events, such as Rammstein’s German concert on June 23 and, above all, Metallica’s ambitious tour on July 12 and 14 with their first album in six years.

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

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

To all this offer we must also add another fine harvest of festivals which will bring together the talent of Blur, Kendrick Lamar and Rosalía (Primavera Sound), Lil Nas X, Lizzo, Queens of The Stone Age or Red Hot Chili Peppers (Mad Cool) and Florence + The Machine and The Chemical Brothers (Bilbao BBK Live), to name a few.

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It will not be a weak year for great national figures such as Joaquín Sabina, who will start on April 20 at the Gran Canaria Arena in Las Palmas and, among many other cities, will pass through the Wizink Center in Madrid on May 23 and 25. . .

Other stars will begin tours with recently released albums, such as Pablo Alborán (from May 20 in Fuengirola), Vanesa Martín (from May 27 at the bullring in Murcia) or Manuel Carrasco (from July 1 at the ‘Estadio Iberoamericano de Huelva and, after the attendance record of 2022, with a double tour of the La Cartuja stadium in Seville on June 2 and 3).

Some will be tested with a large audience, like Jorge Drexler, who will make his debut at the Wizink Center on January 28.

And we cannot forget the long-awaited first tour of Quevedo, the canary who, thanks to Quédate, conquered Spotify’s world number 1 for seven weeks. It will be in Las Palmas on March 11, in Madrid on May 5 and in Barcelona on May 12.