Touring is where modern music money is made — and the numbers have exploded. This page tracks the highest-grossing concert tours among the artists profiled on Net Worth VIP, ranked by box-office gross. Every entry links to a fully sourced profile.
| Celebrity | Date | Amount | Net worth (2026) | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beyonce Knowles-Carter | 2023 | $579.8M | $1B | Grossed $579.8 million from 2.78 million tickets across 56 shows - the highest-grossing tour ever by a woman. Figure is the tour gross, not her personal earnings. source |
| Beyonce Knowles-Carter | 2025 | $407.6M | $1B | Grossed $407.6 million from 1.6 million tickets over 32 shows - the biggest country tour in Boxscore history and the fastest ever to $400 million. Tour gross, not personal earnings. source |
| Travis Scott | 2025 | $265.1M | $80M | Grossed $265.1 million from 2.1 million tickets across six continents - billed as the highest-grossing solo rap tour ever. Figure is the tour gross, not personal earnings. source |
| Post Malone | 2025 | $169.7M | $50M | Grossed $169.7 million per Billboard Boxscore (Forbes reported $197.8 million), with Forbes estimating roughly $50 million in net profit to him. Figure is the tour gross. source |
| Rihanna | 2016 | $110M | $1B | Her last major tour grossed over $110 million per Billboard Boxscore. Figure is the tour gross, not her personal earnings. source |
| Nicki Minaj | 2024 | $108.8M | $150M | Grossed $108.8 million across 79 shows and 788,000+ attendees - the highest-grossing tour by a female rapper in history. Figure is the tour gross, not her personal earnings. source |
| Cardi B | 2026 | $70M | $100M | Her first full arena headline tour grossed $70 million across 453,000 tickets. Figure is the tour gross, not her personal earnings. source |
Why a Tour Gross Is Not the Artist’s Paycheck
This distinction gets lost constantly, and it is the single biggest source of inflated celebrity net worth claims. The figures above are box-office gross — every dollar spent on tickets — as reported to Billboard Boxscore. Out of that gross come the promoter’s cut, venue rent, staging and production, crew and band salaries, transport, insurance, and taxes in every jurisdiction the tour visits.
Stadium productions at this scale routinely cost hundreds of thousands of dollars per show before anyone is paid. A headliner’s take-home is typically a fraction of the gross — Forbes, for example, estimated Post Malone netted around $50 million from a tour that grossed roughly $170–198 million. When you see a tour gross quoted as though it were personal income, that is an error of an order of magnitude.
Figures are as reported to Billboard Boxscore and may be revised as tours complete or additional legs are counted. See our methodology. Related: biggest single paydays, biggest business deals.