WOMEN+POWER 2025: Beyoncé

Beyoncé is back, in case you hadn’t heard. Across 12 shows in May, the Cowboy Carter Tour grossed $157.4 million and sold 567,000 tickets, according to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore.

It’s the second biggest reported monthly gross in Boxscore history – second only to herself. Beyoncé brought in $179.3 million in August 2023, in the heat of the Renaissance World Tour. Since the monthly charts launched in 2019, there have only been seven instances of nine-digit grosses, and Beyoncé is responsible for four of them.

After kicking off the Cowboy Carter Tour with one show on April 28, Beyoncé continued her Los Angeles run with four more shows at Inglewood’s SoFi Stadium on May 1, 4, 7, and 9. Then she hit Chicago, with three shows at Soldier Field before rounding out the month with five shows at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. (New York area).

Those runs grossed $44.6 million ($55.7 million including the April 28 show), $42.5 million, and $70.3 million, respectively, running the table at Nos. 1, 2, and 3 on Top Boxscores. As previously reported, the L.A. batch became 2025’s biggest reported single-venue engagement and went down as the fifth biggest ever. And as predicted, Beyoncé outdid herself in New York. Now, the MetLife dates reign – not only as the biggest of 2025, but as the biggest stadium engagement in Boxscore history.

May marks Beyoncé’s fifth month at No. 1 on Top Tours, out of seven total appearances on the chart. She ties Trans-Siberian Orchestra for the second-most time on top, behind a three-way tie between Bad Bunny, Coldplay, and Elton John, each with seven.

The Cowboy Carter Tour has grossed $269.8 million and sold 1.1 million tickets in its first 22 shows, including L.A.’s opening night in April and nine shows in June, in London and Paris. It has already out-earned all of Beyoncé’s previous tours except for the Renaissance World Tour, which brought in $579.8 million over 56 shows in 2023.