On Saturday night (July 26), Beyoncé played the last of 32 shows on her Cowboy Carter Tour. According to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore, it grossed $407.6 million and sold 1.6 million tickets, thus making it the highest-grossing country tour in Boxscore history.
The Cowboy Carter Tour follows the pattern established by Beyoncé’s Renaissance World Tour, which broke the same record in R&B when it wrapped with $579.8 million in 2023. Beyoncé is the first woman, and the first American artist (male, female, solo, or group) to wrap two tours over the $400 million mark, joining Coldplay, The Rolling Stones, and Ed Sheeran among all acts.
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The Renaissance World Tour played 56 shows in 39 cities, blanketing North America and Europe. The Cowboy Carter Tour employed a different strategy, compressing to 32 shows in just nine markets, eight of which were the highest grossing stops on the Renaissance trek. In fewer cities, Beyoncé bulked up her stays, extending to four nights in Atlanta, five in Los Angeles and New York, and six in London. It’s rare to play so many shows at a single stadium on a single tour, so much so that she set or tied venue records for the most sold-out shows at all nine stadiums. Overall, the tour set more than 40 Boxscore records.
More shows inevitably meant more tickets and higher earnings. Beyoncé’s five-night run at East Rutherford, N.J.’s MetLife Stadium (New York area) grossed $70.3 million and sold over 250,000 tickets, becoming not only that venue’s biggest engagement ever, but the highest-grossing reported stadium run on a single tour, ever.
Six nights at London’s Tottenham Hotspur Stadium brought in $61.6 million and exceeded MetLife in ticket sales with 275,000 between June 5-16. Sales also exceeded 200,000 in Atlanta, Los Angeles and Paris. Grosses surpassed $40 million in Atlanta, Chicago and Los Angeles.
Due to the relative expanse of the Renaissance World Tour, it remains Beyoncé’s highest grossing and best-selling (2.8 million tickets) tour yet. But by focusing on the best-performing markets on her previous treks, the Cowboy Carter Tour achieved a new career peak. On a per-show basis, Beyoncé’s 2025 dates score the highest average gross ($12.7 million), average attendance (49,900 tickets), and ticket price ($255.36) of her career.
Posting such huge numbers in such quick succession, the Cowboy Carter Tour is the fastest reported tour to $400 million in Boxscore history, getting there in just 32 shows in 90 days. Among the 21 tours that have crossed that milestone, the next-shortest tour is Beyoncé’s own, as the Renaissance World Tour’s 56 dates narrowly beats 58 on The Rolling Stones’ No Filter Tour and 60 on Metallica’s ongoing M72 World Tour.
The tour came in support of Cowboy Carter, Beyoncé’s pivot to country music after she conquered the dance genre on Renaissance. Regarded as the first two acts of a genre-bending trilogy, both albums topped the Billboard 200 and sent their lead singles to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. They each won a Grammy in their respective field, claiming best dance/electronic music album in 2023 and best country album in 2025. Cowboy Carter went one step further, taking home album of the year, securing her record-extending 35th trophy. The only live performance she gave following the album’s release – and before the tour kickoff – was a tour preview that doubled as the halftime show for Netflix’s NFL Christmas day game, dubbed Beyoncé Bowl.
Dating back to 2004’s Verizon Ladies First Tour with Missy Elliott and Alicia Keys, Queen Bey has raked in more than $1.75 billion and sold over 13.2 million tickets over 463 reported shows. That includes the grosses of her six solo headline tours, plus 50% of her co-headline earnings on two tours with Jay-Z (2014, 2018), and one third of the 2004 grosses alongside Elliott and Keys. She is one of the 10 highest grossing acts in Boxscore history and is No. 1 among Black artists and R&B artists.
