Beyoncé Knowles-Carter is still on top.

‘Cowboy Carter’ Tour

The artist has been having quite a year. Her most recent album, “Cowboy Carter,” was released in March 2024 and honored her southern country roots. She earned Grammy awards for “Album of the Year” and “Best Country Album” the following year and began a global tour.

“This was born from my love and respect for the rich country genre,” Beyoncé told Pollstar about “Cowboy Carter.”

“The overall intention for this tour was to celebrate American resiliency,” she continued.

The “Cowboy Carter” tour has now become the top-earning world tour in 2025. According to IQ Magazine, the tour generated $407.6 million from 1.57 million ticket sales, across 32 shows.

“The impact of the ‘Cowboy Carter’ era on the country genre will only continue to grow. It has reinvigorated a space that now has a new audience. And in ten years, the young girls and boys who saw the show will become adults who believe they can be respected as country stars and sing whatever music they love. That makes me proud,” Beyoncé said, according to Pollstar.

$8.9B Generated Across Top 100 Tours

Overall $8.9 billion was generated by the top 100 tours of 2025, notes IQ Magazine, which also includes Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s co-headlined Grand National Tour — the second highest grossing tour earning $358.7 million.

Tour revenue has grown substantially since the pandemic, when the music industry took a hit.

“As the live industry moved past the pandemic in 2022, we had a preview of what was to come when worldwide grosses for the Top 100 Worldwide Touring artists surpassed 2019’s year-end total by nearly 13%,” reports Pollstar‘s Bob Allen, per the outlet. “That was plenty to celebrate, but the following year, worldwide grosses skyrocketed by a whopping 46.1%. It increased another 3.6% in 2024 and set a new all-time year-end gross record of $9.5 billion for the top 100 tours”

“This year there’s been a correction of sorts with overall grosses landing 6.1% short of the 2024 worldwide total, but it’s still a massive $8.9 billion and 60.8% higher than 2019’s overall gross, the last full year prior to the pandemic,” Allen continued.