Beyoncé on the Cowboy Carter Tour. Photo credit: via PictureGroup / Shutterstock Editorial / Profimedia
A bold switch to country music led to the most successful tour in the history of the music genre and helped American singer Beyoncé reach a 10-figure fortune, becoming only the fifth artist to do so, reports Forbes.
For almost any other artist in the music world, the Renaissance World Tour would have been the pinnacle of their career. The three-hour show through Beyoncé's discography was one of the blockbuster concerts of 2023, bringing in nearly $600 million and cementing her place alongside Taylor Swift as one of the world's biggest pop stars.
A select club of only 5 musicians
But the 44-year-old star, whose full name is Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, reinvented herself again in 2024, releasing a country album, Cowboy Carter, which brought her new commercial opportunities, an NFL Christmas halftime appearance and the top-grossing concert tour of 2025, and Queen Bey eventually settled for another prestigious title, that of billionaire.
Beyoncé now joins an exclusive group of celebrities whose fortunes have recently crossed the 10-figure mark — of the 22 billionaire artists identified by Forbes, nearly half were added in the past three years — and becomes just the fifth musician on the list, joining her husband Jay-Z and singers Taylor Swift, Bruce Springsteen and Rihanna.
Taylor Swift became a billionaire
