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Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter Tour Could Approach $300 Million in Concert Grosses

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On Monday morning (Feb. 3), Beyoncé announced details for her Cowboy Carter Tour. Following shortly after 2023’s record-breaking Renaissance World Tour, she could add another $300 million to her career Boxscore total.
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Like most weeks, it’s a good week to be Beyoncé. Last night, she won her record-extending 33rd, 34th and 35th Grammys, including album of the year for Cowboy Carter. But one night earlier, she teased a 2025 tour for her genre-busting album, and the morning after, she confirmed it with dates and venues.
Cowboy Carter Tour will take Beyoncé across the U.S. and over to Europe, just like the routing for the Renaissance World Tour. But while her 2023 trek took a relatively traditional route through 14 European cities and then another 25 in North America, her upcoming schedule is consolidated into a series of multi-night stops in major markets.
First, the tour will begin with four shows at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Calif., less than a half-hour drive from downtown Los Angeles. Then, two nights in Chicago and four in New Jersey (New York market). Next, Beyoncé will fly to London for four shows and to Paris for two. Finally, she’ll return Stateside for double-headers in Houston, Washington, D.C., and Atlanta.
With an initial routing of 22 shows, the Cowboy Carter Tour will be Beyoncé’s briefest solo headline tour yet, but that doesn’t mean it won’t register mammoth grosses. Using the same average ticket prices and per-show attendance from each city’s stop on the Renaissance World Tour, the 2025 trek would sprint to a finish of $294.3 million and almost 1.2 million tickets. Just two years removed from her last tour, a 4% inflation bump would bring her upcoming stint to $306 million.
But just as the initial announcement for the Renaissance World Tour grew from 41 shows to a final count of 56, additional dates for Cowboy Carter Tour could push its final gross further beyond the $300 million mark. And like its predecessor, its actual impact will go far beyond standard ticket sales.
By playing 22 shows in just eight markets over two and a half months, Cowboy Carter Tour reframes Beyoncé’s touring schedule and capitalizes on some of the frenzied energy that followed the Renaissance World Tour. During that trek, it was well–documented that fans were traversing across city, state and country lines, turning Renaissance shows into festival-style destinations. From travel and lodging to wardrobe and entertainment, the tour boosted local economies beyond the purchase of a concert ticket.
Channeling the scale of a world tour to eight major cities on either side of the pond, Cowboy Carter Tour teases each stop as a destination event. It makes sense, then, that Live Nation partner Vibee is providing curated experience packages that pair concert tickets with hotel stays and other VIP add-ons. While the company’s homepage shows similar packages for artist residencies like Bad Bunny’s upcoming 21 shows in Puerto Rico and various artists at Sphere in Las Vegas, Cowboy Carter Tour is the only proper tour featured. Further signaling a new era of concerts that double as immersive experiences, it’s another way to efficiently meet growing demand in the post-pandemic touring landscape.
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Beyoncé’s Boxscore history has continued to bloom into the new decade. The Renaissance World Tour finished with $579.8 million and 2.8 million tickets in 56 shows. That’s more than double the take of 2016’s The Formation World Tour and 2018’s On the Run II Tour with Jay-Z ($256.1 million and $253.5 million, respectively), both of which had improved upon The Mrs. Carter Show World Tour ($211.9 million in 2013-14) and the original On the Run Tour ($109.6 million in 2014).
By design, simply due to the limited number of scheduled tour dates, it’s unlikely that Beyoncé will continue to one-up herself with Cowboy Carter Tour, but it will push her career totals to new heights. Dating back to the 2004 Verizon Ladies First Tour with Alicia Keys and Missy Elliott, and her first solo outing with 2007’s The Beyoncé Experience, the pop-dance-R&B-country superstar has grossed $1.3 billion and sold 11.6 million tickets over 431 reported concerts. By year’s end, those totals should climb past $1.6 billion and 12.8 million tickets.
Cowboy Carter Tour follows Beyoncé’s album of the same name. In addition to its Grammy win for album of the year, it made her the first Black artist to win best country album. Upon its release last Spring, the set debuted atop the Billboard 200 with 407,000 equivalent album units earned, according to Luminate, marking Queen Bey’s biggest week, by units, since Lemonade eight years prior. Cowboy Carter includes “Texas Hold ‘Em,” which topped the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks and Hot Country Songs for 10 frames.
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