# KAROL G Source: https://www.popfiltr.com/artist-profile/karol-g Published: 2026-08-25T05:06:02.497Z Language: en > Karol G carried Medellín's reggaeton DNA onto the world's biggest stages, becoming the first woman to win the Best Música Urbana Album Grammy and the first Latina artist to headline Coachella. --- Artist profile ## KAROL G Karol G carried Medellín's reggaeton DNA onto the world's biggest stages, becoming the first woman to win the Best Música Urbana Album Grammy and the first Latina artist to headline Coachella. ## Quick facts - **Origin:** Colombia - **Genres:** reggaeton, latin pop, urbano latino, trap latino - **Award-winning work:** Mañana Será Bonito, Si Antes Te Hubiera Conocido - **Awards:** 1 win GRAMMY Awards · 4 wins Latin GRAMMY Awards - **Audience:** 52.8M Spotify monthly listeners, as of April 30, 2026 ![KAROL G official artist profile image](https://www.popfiltr.com/artist-profile-assets/v1/206809/55a247abe2933fb92cdbb27096f4a8dc88029026c443f7bbaedbc949a04e8806.jpg) *[Artist image via Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/artist/790FomKkXshlbRYZFtlgla)* - **Spotify monthly listeners:** 52.8M (No. 58 by Spotify monthly listeners) - **TikTok tracked video views:** 86.9B (No. 16 by TikTok top-video views) - **YouTube total views:** 33.2B - **Pandora lifetime streams:** 2.5B - **Total platform audience:** 235.4M - **Spotify followers:** 64.3M (No. 17 by Spotify followers) - **YouTube subscribers:** 41.1M (No. 40 by YouTube subscribers) - **TikTok followers:** 55.2M (No. 10 by TikTok followers) Figures as of April 30, 2026. Data ## Audience, reach and discovery Figures as of April 30, 2026. ### Platform audience - **Spotify monthly listeners:** 52.8M (No. 58 by Spotify monthly listeners) - **Spotify followers:** 64.3M (No. 17 by Spotify followers) - **YouTube subscribers:** 41.1M (No. 40 by YouTube subscribers) - **Instagram followers:** 71.4M (No. 41 by Instagram followers) - **TikTok followers:** 55.2M (No. 10 by TikTok followers) - **Deezer fans:** 3.4M (No. 154 for Deezer fans) - **Pandora 28-day listeners:** 1.7M ### Consumption and discovery - **YouTube total views:** 33.2B - **YouTube daily views:** 17M - **YouTube monthly views:** 373.1M - **TikTok likes:** 508.1M (No. 203 for TikTok likes) - **TikTok tracked video views:** 86.9B (No. 16 by TikTok top-video views) - **TikTok track posts:** 111.2M (No. 7 for TikTok track posts) - **Pandora lifetime streams:** 2.5B - **Shazams:** 105.1M - **Genius pageviews:** 5.4M ### Playlist footprint - **Spotify playlist reach:** 502.2M - **Spotify editorial playlist reach:** 185M - **Spotify playlists:** 1.1M - **Spotify editorial playlists:** 821 - **Apple Music playlists:** 1.3K - **Apple Music editorial playlists:** 431 - **Deezer playlists:** 850 - **Deezer editorial playlists:** 145 - **YouTube playlists:** 610 - **YouTube editorial playlists:** 82 ### Top listener markets Leading cities by Spotify monthly listeners. | Rank | City | Listeners | | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | Mexico City MX | 2.9M | | 2 | Bogotá CO | 1.9M | | 3 | Santiago CL | 1.7M | | 4 | Lima PE | 1.2M | | 5 | Madrid ES | 1.1M | Biography ## Karol G: From Medellín to the World's Stadiums ### Medellín Foundations Carolina Giraldo Navarro grew up in Medellín, Colombia, the city she still introduces herself from on award stages, and the Colombian capital of reggaeton's new wave shaped her earliest musical vocabulary. Her rise through the industry was gradual, a slow and steady climb over roughly a decade before 2021, in Billboard's telling, when the groundwork of mixtapes, features and festival slots finally crested into global momentum. That patience became part of her persona. Unlike peers launched by a single viral moment, Karol G assembled a fanbase market by market, learning the economics of touring and branding along the way. The lessons surfaced later in her ownership moves, from founding Bichota Records to negotiating distribution with Interscope, decisions that kept creative control close to home even as the stages got exponentially larger. ### KG0516 and the Arena Leap KG0516, released in 2021, was the pivot point. The album's genre-hopping singles dominated streaming charts and earned a Best Música Urbana Album nomination at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards, an early signal that academy voters were tracking her as more than a singles act. The road amplified what the records started. The $trip Love U.S. arena tour in 2022 grossed 72.2 million dollars and sold 424,000 tickets, numbers that would have capped most careers but functioned here as a launching pad. By 2023 she was headlining festivals, including Lollapalooza billing, and preparing the first stadium tour of her life with an album purpose-built for the occasion. ### Mañana Será Bonito Makes History Mañana Será Bonito arrived in February 2023 and changed the record books immediately: its number-one debut on the Billboard 200 made Karol G the first woman, and only the second artist ever, to reach the summit with an all-Spanish-language album. Songs like 'Provenza', 'TQG' with Shakira and 'Mientras Me Curo del Cora' turned the LP into a cultural document of healing after heartbreak. The trophies followed the milestones. At the November 2023 Latin Grammys she won Album of the Year for Mañana Será Bonito along with the urban album honor, becoming the first woman to win the urban category. Then, on February 4, 2024 at the Crypto.com Arena, she accepted the Grammy for Best Música Urbana Album, the first woman to win the category since its creation, introducing herself to the television audience with the now-famous line that she was from Medellín, Colombia, and holding her first Grammy. ### Stadiums, Records and Giving Back The Mañana Será Bonito World Tour translated the album into history of its own. As her first stadium tour, it blazed a trail few Latin artists had walked, ultimately grossing 313.3 million dollars and selling 2.3 million tickets across 65 shows according to Billboard Boxscore figures, the highest-grossing Latin tour by a woman in Boxscore history. Offstage, the infrastructure matured too. Bichota Records operates with Interscope handling distribution and promotion while she owns her masters, and the Con Cora Foundation channels resources toward women who lead households, at-risk youth and other underserved groups. Netflix entered the archive with Karol G: Tomorrow Was Beautiful, a documentary premiering May 8, 2025 that follows the stadium tour and the hurdles she faced as a woman in reggaeton, narrated in her own terms. ### Tropicoqueta: A Return to the Roots Tropicoqueta began, in her words, as a wish in August 2023, and when it arrived on June 20, 2025 it was her most ambitious album yet: 20 tracks moving through vallenato, bachata, merengue, cumbia and reggaetón, with guests from Marco Antonio Solís to Feid and Manu Chao. The album debuted at number one on Top Latin Albums and number three on the Billboard 200, and she shattered her own mark among women with 20 simultaneous songs on the Hot Latin Songs chart. Its singles rewrote airplay history. Lead single 'Si Antes Te Hubiera Conocido' spent an unmatched 26 weeks at number one on Billboard's Latin Airplay chart, surpassing Shakira's 'La Tortura' for the longest run in the chart's history, and 'Verano Rosa' with Feid later became her twentieth number one on that survey. At the 2025 Latin Grammys the song won Song of the Year and Best Tropical Song, capping a night where she delivered a moving speech about returning to one's roots, and the album later contended for Best Latin Pop Album at the 68th Grammy Awards. ### Coachella Firsts and a Global Stadium Era April 2026 delivered two announcements that reframed her scale. First she became the first Latina artist to headline the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, delivering back-to-back headline sets her promoter described as marking "a defining milestone not only in her career, but in the continued global expansion of Latin music." Then, on April 21, she unveiled the Viajando Por El Mundo Tropitour, a 39-date-plus stadium itinerary promoted by Live Nation. The routing tells the story by itself: North American stadiums from Chicago's Soldier Field on July 24, 2026 through Miami's Hard Rock Stadium in October, a Latin American winter swing through Mexico City, Bogotá and San Juan, and a European summer in 2027 that makes her the first Latina artist to headline stadiums across the continent as part of a global tour, from Barcelona to London's Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. The Medellín kid who spent a decade building patient momentum now measures her career in firsts, continents and capacity crowds. Selected moments ## Career highlights 1. 2023 **First woman to top the Billboard 200 with an all-Spanish album** Mañana Será Bonito debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 in February 2023, a first for a woman with an all-Spanish-language album and only the second such chart-topper overall. 2. 2024 **First woman to win Best Música Urbana Album** On February 4, 2024 she won the Grammy for Best Música Urbana Album for Mañana Será Bonito, becoming the first woman to win the category and the second artist overall. 3. 2024 **Billboard Woman of the Year** Billboard named her 2024 Woman of the Year, the first artist who records exclusively in Spanish to receive the honor, after a history-making album and Grammy win. 4. 2025 **Tropicoqueta debuts at number one** Released June 20, 2025, her fifth album opened at number one on Top Latin Albums and number three on the Billboard 200, placing 20 songs simultaneously on the Hot Latin Songs chart. 5. 2025 **Song of the Year at the Latin Grammys** 'Si Antes Te Hubiera Conocido' won Song of the Year and Best Tropical Song at the 2025 Latin Grammys after a record 26-week run atop the Latin Airplay chart. 6. 2026 **First Latina artist to headline Coachella** Her back-to-back headline sets at the 2026 Coachella festival marked the first time a Latina artist topped the bill in the event's history. 7. 2026 **Viajando Por El Mundo Tropitour launches** Announced April 21, 2026, the 39-date-plus stadium tour begins July 24 at Chicago's Soldier Field and makes her the first Latina artist to headline stadiums across Europe on a global tour. Recognition ## Awards and Recognition Karol G has won one Grammy Award, taking Best Música Urbana Album for Mañana Será Bonito at the 66th Annual Grammy Awards on February 4, 2024 as the first woman to win the category, after an earlier nomination for KG0516 and a later Best Latin Pop Album nomination for Tropicoqueta at the 68th ceremony. At the Latin Grammys she has won four times: Album of the Year and the urban album prize for Mañana Será Bonito in 2023, and Song of the Year plus Best Tropical Song for 'Si Antes Te Hubiera Conocido' in 2025, where the same song was also nominated for Record of the Year. - **GRAMMY Awards:** 1 win - **Latin GRAMMY Awards:** 4 wins | Year | Award | Category | Work | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 2022 | GRAMMY Awards | Best Música Urbana Album Nominee | KG0516 | | 2023 | Latin Grammy Awards | Album Of The Year Winner | Mañana Será Bonito | | 2023 | Latin Grammy Awards | Best Urban Music Album Winner | Mañana Será Bonito | | 2024 | GRAMMY Awards | Best Música Urbana Album Winner | MAÑANA SERÁ BONITO | | 2025 | Latin Grammy Awards | Song Of The Year Winner | Si Antes Te Hubiera Conocido | | 2025 | Latin Grammy Awards | Best Tropical Song Winner | Si Antes Te Hubiera Conocido | | 2025 | Latin Grammy Awards | Record Of The Year Nominee | Si Antes Te Hubiera Conocido | | 2026 | GRAMMY Awards | Best Latin Pop Album Nominee | Tropicoqueta | Sources - [Rolling Stone: reports her February 4, 2024 win as the first woman to take Best Música Urbana Album ↗](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-latin/karol-g-wins-first-grammy-2024-1234960859/) - [AP News: covers her Billboard 2024 Woman of the Year honor and historic Billboard 200 first ↗](https://apnews.com/article/karol-g-billboard-woman-of-year-2024-8131f2c14f72983f348db744381c3ef7) - [Billboard profile: the decade-long build, KG0516 breakthrough, $trip Love gross and 2023 Latin wins ↗](https://www.billboard.com/music/awards/karol-g-billboard-woman-of-the-year-grammys-tour-interview-1235617817/) - [Billboard announcement: details Bichota Records' Interscope distribution and Con Cora Foundation mission ↗](https://www.billboard.com/music/latin/karol-g-billboard-woman-of-the-year-2024-women-in-music-awards-1235601655/) - [Variety: reveals Tropicoqueta's June 20, 2025 release and the Mañana Será Bonito chart-and-tour records ↗](https://variety.com/2025/music/news/karol-g-tropicoqueta-album-release-date-details-1236424793/) - [Billboard chart analysis: Tropicoqueta's chart debuts and the 20-song Hot Latin Songs record among women ↗](https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/karol-g-tropicoqueta-top-latin-albums-chart-1236011387/) - [Billboard chart analysis: Verano Rosa as her 20th Latin Airplay number one and Si Antes's 26-week record ↗](https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/karol-g-feid-number-one-latin-airplay-verano-rosa-1236123027/) - [Billboard: full 2025 Latin Grammy winners list confirming Cosa Nuestra as an Album of the Year nominee ↗](https://www.billboard.com/music/awards/2025-latin-grammys-winners-list-1236112170/) - [NPR: reports the 2025 Latin Grammys results, including Karol G's Song of the Year win ↗](https://www.npr.org/2025/11/14/nx-s1-5605433/2025-latin-grammy-awards-bad-bunny) - [Recording Academy artist page: lists her Grammy win and nominations across the 64th, 66th and 68th shows ↗](https://www.grammy.com/artists/karol-g/38087/) - [Billboard: unveils the Tropitour dates and Mañana Será Bonito's record Boxscore totals ↗](https://www.billboard.com/music/latin/karol-g-viajando-por-el-mundo-tropitour-2026-dates-1236227738/) - [Live Nation Entertainment: announces the Tropitour, Coachella first and European stadium milestone ↗](https://news.livenationentertainment.com/news/karol-g-announces-massive-new-world-tour-viajando-por-el-mundo-tropitour-extending-her-global-dominance) - [Netflix: hosts Karol G: Tomorrow Was Beautiful, the 2025 documentary on her rise and stadium tour ↗](https://www.netflix.com/title/81909018)