Rosalía bid farewell this Wednesday to the LUX Tour in Miami. The singer thus wrapped up a 57-concert tour across 17 countries in front of around 20,000 fans, with The Bear actress Ayo Edebiri as the final guest in her renowned confessional. Rosalía acknowledged having “mixed feelings” because “on one hand I know I’ll miss singing these songs, but the ending is also necessary so that the question of what comes next can exist.”
And what comes next? For now, we know that Rosalía will return to Saturday Night Live on October 10 and that she has just received eight Latin Grammy nominations, including Album of the Year, Record of the Year, and Song of the Year for “La Perla.” The awards will take place on November 12 in Las Vegas, and nominations for the Anglo Grammys remain to be announced, where ‘LUX’ is also positioned as one of the season’s major albums.
It is time to resurrect that mystery in the form of an unreleased song that played in the background during the LUX Tour but which Rosalía has neither officially presented nor incorporated into the repertoire as such, and which, moreover, was a duet with a male vocalist whose identity remains unknown to this day. Now that the tour has ended, the question remains whether that track will finally see the light of day. Will she perform it on Saturday Night Live? Will there be a final move around ‘LUX’ before Rosalía closes this chapter?
@look.rosalia The unreleased ROSALÍA song continues to resound during the LUX Tour, also reaching audiences in Monterrey, Mexico. After performing “CUUUUuuuuuute,” the artist reintroduces a snippet of this anticipated unreleased track, which fans have dubbed “El Amanecer” and which has become one of the most discussed moments since then. The snippet appears as a transition within the show and, although ROSALÍA has not officially announced its release nor confirmed the song’s title, her recurring presence throughout the tour has heightened anticipation among her followers. Since the initial appearances of the track in the LUX Tour, fans have collected various fragments and details, hoping it might form part of a future release by the artist. In Monterrey, ROSALÍA repeated this snippet before the Mexican audience, keeping alive the momentum of her current era. Video: @paterpina via TikTok. © All rights reserved. #ROSALÍA #LUXTOUR #ELAMANECER #MONTERREY #lookrosalia ♬ original sound – ROSALÍA MÉXICO
The question of the unreleased song may make sense even though ‘LUX’ was not designed as a singles factory, because the album has wandered into spaces far from mainstream pop, leaning on classical music as a pop vehicle. It makes little sense to compare ‘LUX’ with the latest works of Bad Bunny or Karol G because artistically they are not the same.
Nevertheless, the data allow us to see a split between the album’s overall success and the performance of its individual tracks: ‘LUX’ peaked at No. 1 in Austria, Switzerland, Portugal, and Belgium, reached No. 2 in France and Germany, and landed at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 and in the United Kingdom. The album has also earned certifications in as many as eight markets, including 6× Platinum in Spain, 3× Platinum in Portugal, and Gold in France, Italy, Belgium, Mexico, and the Netherlands, plus Silver in the United Kingdom.
‘La Perla’ has been the standout exception among singles, topping the official singles charts in Spain and Argentina. It has also achieved notable certifications in Spain, Mexico, Portugal, and France. It is a clear success, though it has not attained the global reach of ‘DESPECHÁ’ or ‘BESO.’ ‘La Perla,’ in fact, reached number 82 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. ‘Berghain’ went the other way: it reached number 36 in the United Kingdom, but did not enter the American chart.
‘LUX,’ by contrast, has traveled everywhere, from that surprise performance in Callao to ‘Berghain’ at the BRIT Awards, including the controversies surrounding Picasso and his statements on feminism, and a succession of appearances that have kept the album in the conversation for months. Its confessional, featuring appearances by Chappell Roan and Rojuu, has also left a trail of headlines nearly daily.
There’s also the undeniable success of the tour, because the LUX Tour has sold out in numerous territories and forced additional dates in markets such as the United States, the United Kingdom, and Latin America. Audiences have bought, therefore, much more than a series of songs: they have bought ‘LUX’ as an album and as a show; they have bought the entire experience.
The distinctive success of ‘LUX’ lies in Rosalía turning a largely alternative record into an international pop event. Yet it’s also true that the album has not, at least so far, produced a song that has detached itself from the album to become a global hit on the scale of her earlier big singles. With SNL, the Latin Grammys, and the Grammys still ahead, it remains to be seen whether that song can still emerge. And after the shoot of ‘Wet,’ planned for early 2027, there might even be time to continue presenting the album at festivals.
