There's a Temporary Stadium Called "Shakira Stadium" in Madrid Right Now, and 55,000 People Filled It

September 19, 2026 · 68 sources

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Shakira returned to Spain for the first concert in eight years and launched a 12-date Madrid residency Friday in front of 55,000 fans at the Shakira Stadium — a temporary venue built for her, because why rent when you can brand. Her message to the crowd: "Tonight we are one."
Madonna leads the 2026 MTV VMA nominations, and CBS and MTV filled out the ballot Friday with four fan-voted social categories.
Millie Bobby Brown confirmed she and Jake Bongiovi have welcomed baby No. 2 and shared a first glimpse at the little one.
Rough news Down Under: Charlie Puth cancelled his six-date November Australia/New Zealand arena run, which was only announced back in April.
And in heavier celebrity news, Frankie Muniz says he's hit "rock bottom" — and his estranged wife, Paige Price, responded with a cryptic Instagram post about perspective.

The generational discourse is BACK: BuzzFeed's roundup of trends older adults are officially sick of includes the haunting confession, "I've trained three co-workers in their early 20s who don't use the shift key to capitalize letters." Sir, the keyboard does so much for you.
Its spiritual sequel asks adults to share the most "bewildering" things they've had to explain to other adults — the current frontrunner being a 26-year-old geography major learning Kentucky is, in fact, a state.
For the recently dumped: BuzzFeed also wants you to vote on 25 very real petty breakup moves, because your therapist and your best friend are never going to agree.

The full 2026 VMA picture is set: Madonna leads the field, and Friday's update added four social categories — best long-form video, best group, best album and song of summer — with all the fan voting hosted by MTV.
In the middle of ATEEZ's biggest year yet, leader Hongjoong tells Billboard he wanted to share a song about having "Enough" — and the Coachella connection runs deep. He was back in Indio this April with nothing to do, two years after ATEEZ became the first K-pop boy band to ever play the festival.
Vaundy mania is going global: Billboard recaps the Sept. 5 kickoff of his first Asian arena tour, "HORO," a two-night stand at Makuhari Messe in Chiba, and says the fervor is officially spreading beyond Japan.
After more than 20 years of pure two-acoustic-guitars instrumental mastery, Rodrigo y Gabriela are adding lyrics and vocals for the first time on their new album "OurHome" — something they call "very powerful." Nervous, but excited.
Gene Simmons will receive the International Entertainment Buyers Association's lifetime achievement award at the IEBA 2026 Honors & Awards on Oct. 6 at The Pinnacle. The tongue endures.
Variety's review of the new Darlene Love documentary "I Know Where I've Been" calls it a stirring portrait of the "He's a Rebel" singer reclaiming her name after decades of glory, injustice and dashed dreams. Straight onto the watchlist.

Angelina Jolie and Salma Hayek Pinault got very real with Variety about "Without Blood" — Jolie wrote and directed it, Salma plays Nina, a woman hunting the three men responsible for her father and brother's wartime murders. The pair say they spent "a lot of time talking about our pain, our losses, our traumas." Bring tissues.
Legos, but make it anime: "Ninjago Legends: Duskfall," anime-style shorts starring some of the franchise's most beloved characters, premiered in Korea this weekend ahead of a worldwide release on Lego's YouTube channel.
San Sebastián is serving: competition entry "5 More Minutes" is a time-warping drama about an on-the-rocks couple from director Javier Ruiz Caldera and writer-star Berto Romero; "The Blind Ants" world-premiered as a coastal western set in the Basque Country; and "Morro" — a man and the dog he inadvertently adopts — has director Rodrigo García Saiz calling it "my most personal film."
Also in Europe: Portugal's Queer Lisboa kicked off its 30th-anniversary edition Friday with a vast slate of new LGBTQ cinema plus a dose of radical 1970s counterculture and family fare.

Millie's confirmation came with the sweetest caption — "hi little guy!" — as she shared the first glimpse of her second child with Jake Bongiovi. That household is officially in full chaos-era mode, in the best way.
No jokes here: Paige Price's post about "perspective" went up on Instagram Friday, shortly after Frankie Muniz revealed he's been going through an intensely difficult stretch. Just hoping things level out for everyone involved.

Every athlete's worst nightmare, now a headline: HYROX competitor Joanna Wietrzyk has spoken out after a toilet mishap during the race in Beijing, offering a "sincere apology to the people of China, my fellow competitors, the spectators and the HYROX organizers." Cannot imagine. Would not survive.
Two sobering creator stories from TMZ: 18-year-old TikToker Mason Hull, known for looksmaxxing content, is fighting charges accusing him of buying child porn online — cops say he initially confessed — and car influencer James Wehr was cited for speeding in Westminster, Calif. more than a year before his fatal crash. His crash victim, Lexi Kramer, will be honored at a celebration of life in Florida next month, per her sister Gracie.
BuzzFeed quiz corner for your lunch break: pick a Taylor Swift song from every era and they'll guess your favorite food, identify vintage PBS shows from a single screenshot (results may be emotionally damaging), or get matched with a hidden-gem indie artist.