Beyonce has recalled the “decades of fighting with the promoters” she went through before selling out stadiums.
The Texas Hold ‘Em hitmaker has seen her Cowboy Carter Tour named the number one highest-grossing solo tour of 2025 after the 32 shows grossed around f $407,600,113, and the former Destiny’s Child member has hailed the concert series a “testiment” to her consistency and dedication.
She told Pollstar: “I’ve been touring since the age of 15, nonstop. I have slowly built my legacy brick by brick.
“This show is a testament to the power of consistency and the dedication put into any craft.
“I’ve learned at a young age that nobody invests in you like you invest in yourself. I’ve slowly built with every tour.
“The first tour Destiny’s Child did with Wyclef Jean, we toured in a minivan.
“On a later tour in the late ’90s, we did our quick changes in a muddy tent in the rain because we didn’t have proper dressing rooms, designing our own clothes because designers would not.
“A decade of visiting every radio station on Earth, advocating for ourselves. Slowly building into being able to tour with a small band.
“More building until we could tour with dancers.
“Finally, selling out my first arena as a solo artist. The decades of fighting with the promoters, convincing them that an R+B artist could sell out a stadium.”
Beyonce pledged to “stay focused” on her vision and hopes her concerts leave her audiences “reinvigorated and inspired”.
She added: “I continued to invest in myself and stay focused on the vision.
“I’m beyond grateful for my fans that have been a part of my journey.
“It’s important to me that they leave the show reinvigorated and inspired, feeling more in love with themselves, and closer to the people they love.”
The Cowboy Carter Tour – which followed a residency-style format across nine cities and had a total attendance of 1.6 million – is also the highest-grossing country tour ever recorded.
The result marks another major touring milestone for Beyoncé. It also places her among a small group of artists with multiple tours clearing the $400 million mark, and the first American act to achieve this twice.
Earlier in the year, the Crazy In Love hitmaker finished a run of five gigs at the SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, and pulled in well over $50 million with 217,000 tickets sold.
As reported by Rolling Stone magazine, the Los Angeles run was the “biggest reported single-venue engagement” of the year so far.
It was also the fifth-highest grossing tour stop in Boxscore history, beaten only by U2 at the Sphere in Las Vegas across 2023 and 2024, Harry Styles at New York’s Madison Square Garden in 2022, and Take That’s Wembley Stadium run in 2011.
It was also the highest-grossing single-venue engagement in history by a female artist.
