Beyoncé declared a billionaire by Forbes

Beyoncé was declared a billionaire by Forbes, making her the fifth musician to be among the richest people in the world.

According to Forbes, the American star joins a select group of musicians with a 10-figure fortune, including Taylor Swift, Rihanna, Bruce Springsteen and her husband Jay-Z, whose net worth the business magazine puts at $2.5bn (£1.85bn).

Earlier this month Forbes estimated Beyoncé’s net worth at $800 million (£593 million), predicting she would cross the billionaire threshold for the first time after years of success.

Her 2023 Renaissance World Tour grossed nearly $600 million, making her one of the biggest pop music icons in the world alongside Taylor Swift.

Beyoncé shot a film of her concert performance, her first solo tour in seven years, and distributed it directly through a deal with the AMC theater chain; thus pocketing almost half of the film’s $44 million (£33 million) global box office.

Celebrating and contextualizing country music’s black roots, his 2024 album Cowboy Carter received critical acclaim and won album of the year at the Grammy Awards; This is the first time Beyoncé has won this prestigious award, despite being nominated four times.

Forbes estimates that the Cowboy Carter tour, which featured guest appearances by Jay-Z, two of his three children, and his former Destiny’s Child bandmates, generated more than $400 million total in ticket sales and more than $50 million from merchandise sold at the shows.

The tour broke ticket records at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London and the Stade De France in Paris. Ticket sales slow as organizers reduce some prices trying to fill the seats.

However, this was the highest priced ticket among artists visiting the UK in 2025; the cheapest was £71.

A special halftime show for Netflix’s first Christmas Day NFL game raised an estimated $50 million, on top of $10 million from a series of Levi’s commercials, Forbes said.