Shakira has smashed Billboard chart records with her latest album ‘Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran’.
The Colombian star returned to the Top 40 of the Billboard 200 this week with her 12th overall LP – her eighth Spanish language offering – debuting at No. 13.
Additionally, it soared to the top of the Top Latin Albums rundown, becoming Shakira’s fifth No. 1 on that chart.
In doing so, it makes her the first artist in history to have a Latin No. 1 in four separate decades: the 1990s (‘Dónde Están los Ladrones?’), 2000s (‘Fijación Oral, Vol. 1’), 2010s (‘Sale el Sol’, ‘El Dorado’) and 2020s (‘Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran’).
In a recent interview, Shakira opened up about the creative process behind the record amid her separation from Gerard Piqué, admitting she wants the material to “build bridges, to empower people, to help women discover their own strengths”.
“I was in the mud,” she explained. “I had to reconstruct myself, to reunite all the pieces that had fallen apart.”
On how the creative process behind the 16-track LP helped her to heal, she continued: “Making this music has shown me that my pain can be transformed into creativity
“The songs are full of anecdotes and some very intense emotions I have experienced in these two years. But creating this album has been a transformation in which I have been reborn as a woman.
“I have rebuilt myself in the ways I believe are appropriate. No one tells me how to cry or when to cry, no one tells me how to raise my children, no one tells me how I become a better version of myself. I decide that.”
