Beyoncé declared a billionaire by Forbes

Beyoncé has been declared a billionaire by Forbes, making her the fifth musician to hitch its record of the world’s wealthiest individuals.The American star has joined an elite group of musicians with 10-figure fortunes, Forbes studies, together with Taylor Swift, Rihanna, Bruce Springsteen and her husband Jay-Z, who the enterprise journal lists as having a web value of $2.5bn (£1.85bn).Earlier this month, Forbes estimated Beyoncé’s web value of $800m (£593m) and predicted she would cross the billionaire threshold for the primary time following years of success.Her 2023 Renaissance World Tour grossed almost $600m, making her one of many largest pop music icons on the earth alongside Taylor Swift.Beyoncé produced a movie of the live performance efficiency, which was her first solo tour in seven years, and distributed it immediately through a take care of the AMC theater chain, which noticed her pocketing almost half of the movie’s $44m (£33m) world field workplace gross.Her 2024 album Cowboy Carter, which celebrates and contextualises the black roots of nation music, was met with vital acclaim and gained album of the 12 months on the Grammy Awards – the primary time Beyoncé had gained the celebrated award, regardless of being nominated 4 instances.Forbes estimates the Cowboy Carter tour – which included visitor appearances from Jay-Z, two of their three kids and former Future’s Little one bandmates – racked up a complete of greater than $400m in ticket gross sales and one other $50m in merchandise offered on the reveals.Whereas the tour broke ticket data on the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London and Stade De France in Paris, it was beset with gradual ticket gross sales with promoters slashing some costs in a bid to fill seats.Nonetheless, it was the best top-priced ticket of any artist visiting the UK in 2025 at £950, with the most affordable costing £71.A particular halftime present for Netflix’s first Christmas Day NFL sport amassed an estimated $50m, on high of $10m for a string of Levi’s commercials, Forbes stated.Bloomberg, which runs its personal billionaire index, included Selena Gomez amongst its record of musicians – with a reported web value of $1.3bn (£962m) in 2024. However Forbes has disputed this determine, as a substitute estimating Gomez to be value $700m (£518m).