Beyoncé has picked up a new honorific to go with "Queen Bey": billionaire. Forbes now pegs the 44-year-old performer's net worth at 10 figures, putting her in a small circle of entertainment moguls. She's just the fifth musician to claim the billionaire title, following husband Jay-Z, Taylor Swift, Rihanna, and Bruce Springsteen, per USA Today. The milestone caps a stretch that included 2023's Renaissance World Tour and a full-on pivot to country with 2024's Cowboy Carter, which in turn fueled a high-profile 2024 Christmas Day NFL halftime show and 2025's top-grossing concert tour.
The fortune is largely self-built. In 2010, Beyoncé created Parkwood Entertainment to produce her music, tours, and films, fronting initial costs to secure a bigger share of profits. That structure underpinned the Cowboy Carter Tour's mini-residency strategy: nine stadiums across the US and Europe, 32 shows, and guest spots from her family and former Destiny's Child bandmates. The run hauled in more than $400 million in ticket sales and an estimated $50 million in merch, with Parkwood's control boosting margins. Forbes estimates she earned $148 million before taxes in 2025, ranking her among the year's top-paid musicians.
Her recorded music, while lucrative, isn't driving streaming charts at Taylor-Swift levels—2025 album-equivalent sales for Beyoncé lagged behind artists like Sabrina Carpenter, Bad Bunny, and The Weeknd. Instead, her wealth leans heavily on touring and "event" releases, like the 2016 Lemonade visual album; a blockbuster 2018 Coachella set that became the Netflix film Homecoming, reportedly netting Beyoncé $60 million; and a Renaissance concert movie that she distributed through AMC, keeping nearly half of its $44 million global box office. Add endorsements (Levi's), her ventures in clothing (Ivy Park), hair care (Cécred), and spirits (SirDavis whiskey), and the empire fills out.
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