Five years after that Enrique Ponce fell hopelessly in love with a beautiful young woman who had barely left adolescence, the mother of his daughters has rebuilt her life with Luis Miguel The Sun of Mexico not only enjoys a fairytale romance with the Paloma Caves. The singer’s emotional stability alongside the beautiful woman from Cordoba has led him to excel on a professional level. Together with the ex of his former bullfighter friend, the singer has had the best time in every aspect. His tour breaks records in every sense. He fills stadiums and the earnings have skyrocketed above artists of the stature of Bad Bunny and is about to surpass Karol G.
On the other side of the scale, the Valencian bullfighter competes as best he can with his farewell bullfighting tour, also with indisputable success, since his art is not in question. But in terms of economics, Enrique Ponce plays in another league.
Luis Miguel has become the most successful and prolific Latin music singer in Boxscore history, with $318.2 million raised so far on tour, with 2.2 million tickets sold in its early days 146 concerts. On the other hand, the boyfriend of the student from Almería has sold one of his properties for around six million euros to feed the company he has with his beloved. Curiously, we can remember that Ana Soria is a partner of the bullfighter while Paloma, who was his wife for almost a quarter of a century, became a signed representative of her husband’s businesses, but not a partner like the future lawyer who, it is said, has finished her degree after several years of delay. Soria and Ponce appear as joint administrators and make decisions jointly, such as the aforementioned sale of the property adjacent to Cetrina, called Avenazas.
It seems that Enrique Ponce will focus on that business with Ana Soria and that the bullfighter is being advised in his new business facet by his girlfriend’s family, as they announced a few days ago in Federico Jiménez Losantos’ programme. Enrique Ponce, who is leaving the world of bullfighting, is planning a retirement that will culminate in the American bullrings, some of which witnessed the beginning of his romance, then clandestine, with the very young Ana, as he was still married to Paloma Cuevas. Although the bullfighter announced his definitive retirement in Valencia on 9 October, he will not comply with this roadmap; we imagine that he needs to replenish his coffers.
The bullfighter from Chiva will fight in Peru and Colombia. But Mexico is the destination chosen for his final farewell, the land of Luis Miguel. His last bullfight is said to be on February 5 at the Monumental in Mexico City, where he has fought on other occasions.
He needs capital to strengthen his future businesses in the real estate development sector. Almost three years ago, the bullfighter and Ana Soria set up a Limited Company with headquarters on Doctor Araez Pacheco Street in Almería, which answers to the name “Kranevitte´s 22” and which, according to the Axesor business network, is dedicated to “Real estate development and the promotion, construction, sale and leasing of buildings, premises and homes, as well as the ownership, acquisition, sale and purchase of rural and urban properties, their subdivision and urbanisation, non-financial leasing, exploitation and leasing of real estate”, as reported by Libertad Digital.
While Ponce squeezes out the end of his career as a bullfighter, trying to earn money to move into the real estate business, along with his girlfriend and Soria’s family from Almería, Luis Miguel does not stop: he adds and continues. In a concert on August 28 in Caracas, Venezuela, Luis Miguel surpassed Bad Bunny’s World’s Hottest Tour ($314.1 million) and Karol G’s Mañana Será Bonito tour ($313.3 million) to obtain the Latin Boxscore record, and extended it a few days later with a concert in Juárez, Mexico.
Luis Miguel’s current tour began last summer, with 10 shows at Buenos Aires’ Movistar Arena and then another 10 at the eponymous venue in Santiago, Chile. Those initial 20 dates grossed a total of $28.1 million and sold 227,000 tickets, already establishing it as the third highest-grossing tour of his storied career. After that, he toured the United States, Mexico and Latin America, returned to the U.S., headed to Spain and, most recently, returned to Latin America.
Luis Miguel’s stint in the United States grossed $49.8 million, and upon his return to Mexico, his native country, he generated another $57.5 million in 20 concerts. By the end of 2023, he had earned $141 million, still far from the absolute record, but enough to easily surpass his own Mexico tour. Forever 2018-19, which grossed $101.4 million, making it his most successful tour to date.
In Latin America, Luis Miguel raised another $73 million in the first months of 2024, and another $65.6 million in North America through mid-June. Twelve concerts in Spain raised $1.1 million $27.6 million, and his return to Central America increased the tour with others $10.7 million in five concerts in August. This is not only Luis Miguel’s highest grossing tour, but also the one that has sold the most tickets. So far, with 2.194 million tickets, double her previous tour, where she sold 965,000 tickets. On the all-time rankings, she still trails Karol G’s 2.326 billion, but she’ll easily surpass that mark by the end of the month.
While Bad Bunny and Karol G reached their all-time highs exclusively in stadiums around the world, Luis Miguel has combined arenas and stadiums, with more than double the number of concerts. Already in an unprecedented situation, Luis Miguel has offered another seven unannounced concerts in Mexico and Las Vegas, and has another 30 performances scheduled in Mexico until November 25The highlight of their remaining performances is a 10-concert tour at the CDMX Arena in Mexico City between October 8 and 24. Seven performances at the same venue grossed $14.6 million last November, His long stint is expected to surpass that figure and become the biggest commitment of the entire tour. The projected earnings for the remainder of the tour are likely to reach another $100 million. That will make him the first Latin artist to undertake a tour of $400 million.