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Beyoncé is now a billionaire, joining her husband Jay-Z, as well as Taylor Swift, Bruce Springsteen, and Rihanna, in the highly coveted club.
Beyoncé is now officially a billionaire, making her the fifth musician to reach the milestone, Forbes reports. The megastar joins her husband Jay-Z, as well as Taylor Swift, Bruce Springsteen, and Rihanna, as the handful of musicians to have achieved such a feat.
It’s been an extremely lucrative last few years for Queen Bey. Her Renaissance World Tour in 2023 grossed nearly $600 million, while her 2024 country debut, Cowboy Carter, was the subject of her 2025 concert tour—and the highest grossing tour of the year.
“The Cowboy Carter Tour grossed more than $400 million in ticket sales, per Pollstar, and another $50 million in merchandise sold at the shows,” Forbes estimates. And since her own company, Parkwood, produced the tour, she was able to secure higher profit margins.
In 2008, Beyoncé founded her entertainment company, Parkwood Entertainment. Forbes says that Parkwood “manages her career and produces all of her music, documentaries and concerts, fronting most of the production costs in order to capture more of the back-end economics.”
“When I decided to manage myself, it was important that I didn’t go to some big management company,” she said during a 2013 interview. “I felt like I wanted to follow in the footsteps of Madonna and be a powerhouse and have my own empire and show other women when you get to this point in your career you don’t have to go sign with someone else and share your money and your success—you do it yourself.”
Forbes estimates that, combining what she made touring with earnings from her music catalog and sponsorship deals this year, she brought in $148 million in 2025 before taxes, “making her the third-highest paid musician in the world.”
Other major sources of income Beyoncé earned as a solo artist include an approximate $60 million from Netflix for her 2019 documentary “Homecoming: A Film by Beyoncé.” She also reportedly earned another $50 million for her halftime performance during Netflix’s first Christmas Day NFL game last year.
In 2023, she produced a concert film of her Renaissance World Tour and took a page from Taylor Swift’s book, distributing it directly through AMC Theatres. That move earned her nearly half of the film’s $44 million global box office gross.
