Beyoncé’s ‘Cowboy Carter’ tour named highest-grossing tour of 2025 for a solo artist

Beyoncé‘s ‘Cowboy Carter’ tour was the highest-grossing tour of 2025 for a solo artist.

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The 32-show run wrapped up in July in Las Vegas, and now it’s been revealed that the trek, which grossed $407.6million (£305.5million) with 1.6 million tickets sold (according to Billboard Boxscore), was the highest-grossing of any solo artist’s tour this year.

Bey is followed in the solo artist category by The Weeknd, whose 46-date ‘After Hours Til Dawn’ tour grossed $336.7million (£251.7million). Earlier this year, it was reported that the tour, which began in 2022, was the biggest tour by a male artist in history.

Meanwhile, the all-time highest-grossing tour of the year was Coldplay‘s ‘Music Of The Spheres’ tour, which saw them play 59 shows in 2025, grossing a total of $464.9million (£347.7million)

The band’s global trek kicked off in March 2022, and last year became the highest-grossing rock tour of all time. It has grossed over $1billion, becoming only the second tour ever to do so.

Back in July, it was revealed that Beyoncé’s ‘Cowboy Carter’ trek had broken records to become the highest-grossing country tour ever.

In making over $400million, the tour has reached a feat that no other country tour ever has, per Pollstar.

Bey is also the first American artist to have two separate tours gross over $400 million, with her 2023 ‘Renaissance‘ trek – previously named one of the highest-grossing tours of all time – amassing $579million (£434million) across 56 shows.

The ‘Cowboy Carter’ run is also the shortest tour to ever reach the figure, with its closest competitors lagging far behind. Those include her own previous tour (56 dates), The Rolling Stones’ 2017 – 2021 No Filter Tour (58 dates), and Metallica’s ongoing M72 World Tour (60 so far).

This time around, Bey performed in only nine cities, choosing to play mini-residencies in the likes of Los Angeles, New York City, Atlanta, London and Las Vegas. It was a different approach to the ‘Renaissance’ run, which saw her play 39 cities in 17 countries.

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Surprise guests at the shows included a surprise Destiny’s Child Reunion at the tour’s final night, and an appearance from Jay-Z, who joined the stage in Atlanta for ‘Crazy In Love’, followed by solo performances of his own tracks ‘Public Service Announcement’ and ‘I Just Wanna Love U (Give It 2 Me)’. It came after he previously joined her in France in June, marking their first time sharing a stage in seven years.

Before that, Beyoncé surprised fans once again in Paris by bringing out Miley Cyrus to perform their collaboration ‘II Most Wanted’ together for the first time.

Beyoncé’s first London date at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium earlier this year earned her a glowing five-star review, with Nick Levine writing for NME: “As a performer, she remains pretty much flawless – who else can sing from a bucking mechanical bull without missing a note? And as a creator of stadium spectacle, she keeps getting better. No one leaving this show will be removing their cowboy hat on the ride home.”

In other news, hard drives containing unreleased music from Beyoncé were reportedly stolen out of a rental car during the tour stop in Atlanta.

Back in August, the singer sparked more speculation over her rumoured ‘Act III’ rock album after she appeared in a new Levi’s advert.

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