Beyoncé Is Officially a Billionaire, According to Forbes

Queen Bey now has a “B” next to her net worth. According to a report from Forbes on Monday (Dec. 29), Beyoncé has officially reached billionaire status, becoming just the fifth musician to ever do so, per the publication’s estimates.

According to the publication, the 35-time Grammy winner crossed into 10-digit territory in 2025 after capping off one of the highest-grossing tours of the year, with Billboard Boxscore previously reporting that her Cowboy Carter trek had grossed $407.6 million across 1.6 million tickets sold this summer. Forbes also cites Bey’s 2023 Renaissance World Tour, as well as her Cécred and SirDavis Whisky businesses, as contributing factors to her newfound billionaire valuation, but notes that “most of her personal wealth comes from her music, by controlling the rights to her enormously valuable catalog and earning a massive income from her global tours.”

Forbes says Bey is now one of just five musicians who have ever built an empire worth more than $1 billion, joining the ranks of husband Jay-Z, Taylor Swift, Rihanna and Bruce Springsteen. (Outlets other than Forbes have also placed Paul McCartney, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Selena Gomez at the billionaire level using different criteria.) The Destiny’s Child alum first started taking a dedicated business approach to her career in 2010 by founding her Parkwood Entertainment company, which has allowed her to keep the management and production of all of her music, performances, tours and visual media products in-house and ultimately retain more of the profits from those ventures.

As one of music’s biggest superstars — and as someone who has demonstrated a level of career longevity that only a handful of other artists have matched in history — Beyoncé has had analysts tracking her wealth for years. In December 2023, she made headlines for expanding her net worth from $500 million to $800 million in just one year alone, thanks in large part to the success of her Renaissance World Tour.

Since going solo in 2003, Bey has released eight studio albums — all of which charted at the top of the Billboard 200. She’s also scored nine No. 1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100.

Beyond beating out everyone but Coldplay for highest grossing trek of 2025, Beyonce also set a number of records with her limited Cowboy Carter run. In addition to it becoming the top grossing country tour in Billboard Boxscore history, it was also the shortest tour to gross more than $400 million, taking just 32 dates to do so.