Highlights
- Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter tour grossed $407.6 million from 32 shows
- It is now the highest-grossing country tour ever, per Billboard Boxscore
- The tour sold 1.6 million tickets and spanned only nine cities
- Beyoncé becomes first American artist with two $400M+ grossing tours
- Tour included special guests, career-spanning setlists, and family cameos
Record-breaking country tour grosses over $400 million
Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter tour has officially become the highest-grossing country music tour in history. According to Billboard Boxscore, the 32-show run brought in $407.6 million across nine cities, with 1.6 million tickets sold.
The feat makes Beyoncé the first artist to headline a country tour surpassing $400 million in gross revenue. The figure was also confirmed by concert industry tracker Pollstar, which praised the scale and efficiency of the tour’s format.
Shortest tour to cross the $400 million mark
Despite its limited number of shows, the Cowboy Carter tour set multiple records. It is now the shortest tour ever to exceed $400 million in gross, outpacing longer tours including Beyoncé’s own Renaissance tour (56 shows, $579 million), The Rolling Stones’ No Filter tour (58 shows), and Metallica’s M72 World Tour (60 shows and ongoing).
Beyoncé is now the first American artist to achieve two separate $400M+ tours, with Renaissance and Cowboy Carter both surpassing that milestone in less than two years.
A focused run with high-impact venues
Unlike previous global tours, Cowboy Carter focused on fewer locations with multiple nights in each city. The tour included five performances in both Los Angeles and the New York City area, six shows in London, and a four-night finale in Atlanta. The final two shows took place in Las Vegas.
The tour featured a mix of tracks from Cowboy Carter and hits from Beyoncé’s wider catalogue. Her children, Blue Ivy and Rumi, made regular appearances, and special guests joined her onstage throughout the run.
Highlights included Miley Cyrus joining Beyoncé in Paris for a live performance of “II Most Wanted”, and a surprise Destiny’s Child reunion at the final show in Las Vegas, which also featured appearances by Jay-Z and Shaboozey.
Part of a larger musical trilogy
The Cowboy Carter tour is seen as the second act in Beyoncé’s three-part album trilogy, which began with 2022’s Renaissance. In addition to its touring success, the Cowboy Carter album brought a significant career milestone — Beyoncé won the Grammy for Album of the Year, a first for the artist.
With the tour now concluded, attention turns to what the third act of the trilogy may hold — and whether it will match or surpass the enormous impact of its predecessors.
