Alfonso Herrera will always be a rebelde. On Thursday night, the Mexican pop group — currently comprising Anahí, Dulce María, Maite Perroni, Christian Chavez, and Christopher von Uckermann — performed for the last time on their 54-stop Soy Rebelde Tour, and Herrera, who chose not to join RBD for the reunion, celebrated his former bandmates’ end of their successful run.
“What a joy to see y’all bringing so much joy to so many people,” Herrera wrote Friday morning. “Congratulations on the end of the tour!”
Herrera previously addressed his decision to not join RBD for the reunion several times, stating that he’s focused instead on his acting career. The actor — who stars in Netflix’s Rebel Moon, which premiered Friday — has been supportive of his former bandmates online and in press interviews.
RBD closed the Soy Rebelde Tour at Mexico City’s Estadio Azteca Thursday, where they also closed their “Tour Del Adios” exactly 15 years prior in 2008. It’s been a successful run: Billboard reported Friday that the group took the No. 1 spot on its November Boxscore report, stating that RBD’s tour grossed $71.1 million and sold 734,000 tickets last month, outranking the likes of Coldplay, Pink, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Madonna.
Overall, the tour is likely to become the second-highest-grossing tour after Bad Bunny’s World Hottest Tour, according to the outlet. (Without counting seven stadium shows in December, the group has grossed $197 million.)
“This night is filled with emotion and melancholy,” Anahí told the sold-out crowd Thursday night.
“When we talked about this a year ago, we never imagined this,” added Perroni. “Thank you for giving this dream purpose. We realized this was also our dream, not just yours.”
On the road, the group performed many of the band’s greatest hits such as “Este Corazón,” “Nuestro Amor,” and “Tras de Mi,” along with the two singles released after the reunion, “Cerquita de Ti” and “Siempre He Estado Aquí.”
“RBD will continue to exist even if it ends… because you have taken it upon yourself to give it life, to keep us in your thoughts, in your life and in your heart,” Dulce María wrote on Instagram ahead of the show. “I keep thinking of thousands of moments and the tears don’t stop. I hope you know that I will always be close to you even if I am gone. RBD will continue to exist even if it ends.”
Rolling Stone spoke to RBD ahead of the reunion, where the group shared that early aughts nostalgia and the group’s music being put on streaming services for the first time in 2020.
“It’s the best thing that could’ve happened. It’s infinite happiness,” Chavez told Rolling Stone about reuniting with his bandmates and embracing his queerness on the road. “It’s like finally opening the door to that little Christian in me and saying, ‘I love you. Enjoy this. This is you. I’m proud of you.’ For me, in the psychological sense, it has been liberating.”
“Doing this [tour] is our way of ending this cycle and thanking our fans, who after years, continue to listen to the music,” von Uckermann previously said. “We want to allow new generations, who never went to the shows, to see us perform.”
Vix will premiere a concert film for Soy Rebelde, titled Para Siempre RBD, on Christmas Eve.