Beyoncé has been declared a billionaire by Forbes, making her the fifth musician to hitch its listing of the world’s wealthiest individuals.
The American star has joined an elite group of musicians with 10-figure fortunes, Forbes stories, together with Taylor Swift, Rihanna, Bruce Springsteen and her husband Jay-Z, who the enterprise journal lists as having a web price of $2.5bn (£1.85bn).
Earlier this month, Forbes estimated Beyoncé’s web price of $800m (£593m) and predicted she would cross the billionaire threshold for the primary time following years of success.
Her 2023 Renaissance World Tour grossed practically $600m, making her one of many largest pop music icons on the earth alongside Taylor Swift.
Beyoncé produced a movie of the live performance efficiency, which was her first solo tour in seven years, and distributed it straight by way of a cope with the AMC theater chain, which noticed her pocketing practically half of the movie’s $44m (£33m) international field workplace gross.
Her 2024 album Cowboy Carter, which celebrates and contextualises the black roots of nation music, was met with crucial acclaim and received album of the yr on the Grammy Awards – the primary time Beyoncé had received the distinguished award, regardless of being nominated 4 occasions.
Forbes estimates the Cowboy Carter tour – which included visitor appearances from Jay-Z, two of their three kids and former Destiny’s Child bandmates – racked up a complete of greater than $400m in ticket gross sales and one other $50m in merchandise bought on the exhibits.
While the tour broke ticket data on the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London and Stade De France in Paris, it was beset with gradual ticket gross sales with promoters slashing some costs in a bid to fill seats.
However, it was the best top-priced ticket of any artist visiting the UK in 2025 at £950, with the most cost effective costing £71.
A particular halftime present for Netflix’s first Christmas Day NFL recreation amassed an estimated $50m, on high of $10m for a string of Levi’s commercials, Forbes stated.
Bloomberg, which runs its personal billionaire index, included Selena Gomez amongst its listing of musicians – with a reported web price of $1.3bn (£962m) in 2024.
But Forbes has disputed this determine, as an alternative estimating Gomez to be price $700m (£518m).
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