Trending Now: Beyonce a billionaire after world-beating tour – Fans React

Beyonce is officially a billionaire, after her Cowboy Carter tour catapulted her to an elite group of celebrities.

Forbes magazine has declared the singer just the fifth musician – joining her husband, Jay-Z, as well as Taylor Swift, Bruce Springsteen and Rihanna – to reach the rare status.

“The 44-year-old pop supernova reinvented herself again in 2024, releasing a country album, Cowboy Carter, that would generate new commercial opportunities, a Christmas NFL halftime performance and the world’s highest-grossing concert tour of 2025, ultimately earning Queen Bey another title of distinction—billionaire,” the magazine wrote on Tuesday (Australian time).

Beyonce’s Renaissance World Tour in 2023 grossed nearly $US600 million ($A895 million).

It was followed by the Cowboy Carter tour, which topped Billboard‘s 2025 year‑end touring report, finishing as the highest‑grossing solo tour of the year. The run earned $US407.6 million ($A614.1 million) from 32 shows.

Total attendance reached 1.6 million.

Forbes combined Beyonce’s tour earnings with income from her music catalog and other deals to estimate she brought in $US148 million in 2025 before taxes, making her the third highest-paid musician in the world.

But it didn’t provide a more specific estimate of the former Destiny’s Child member’s net worth.

Beyonce, who founded Parkwood Entertainment to manage her career and productions, had expanded her business empire with ventures such as a hair care brand, a whisky label and a clothing line, Forbe said. But it noted that most of her personal wealth derived from her music, along with her global tours and controlling the rights to her back catalog.

Earlier in December, Billboard confirmed Cowboy Carter had become the highest‑grossing country tour recorded.

Earlier in 2025, the Crazy In Love hit maker finished a run of five gigs at the SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, and pulled in well over $US50 million with 217,000 tickets sold.

As reported by Rolling Stone magazine, the Los Angeles run was the “biggest reported single-venue engagement” of 2025.

It was also the fifth-highest grossing tour stop in Boxscore history, beaten only by U2 at the Sphere in Las Vegas across 2023 and 2024, Harry Styles at New York’s Madison Square Garden in 2022, and Take That’s Wembley Stadium run in 2011.

It was also the highest-grossing single-venue engagement in history by a female artist.

Beyonce started her tour on April 28 and returned to the venue on May 1, 4, 7 and 9, pulling in an average of $US11.1 million a night with more than 43,000 fans in attendance for each show.

The Weeknd’s mammoth After Hours Til Dawn tour grossed $US336.7 million.

Coldplay closed out 2025 with the year’s highest‑grossing tour overall, according to the year-end figures from Billboard Boxscore. The band’s Music of the Spheres World Tour generated $US464.9 million.

-with AAP