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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paul McCartney | 2022-05-31 | $1B | $1.1B | One of roughly eleven artists in the history of Billboard's Boxscore to cross the mark. Three years earlier the running total stood at $944.3 million from 8,241,521 tickets, sixth all-time - and not adjusted for inflation. source |
| Bad Bunny | 2026-06 | $1B | $100M | Billboard Boxscore confirmed he crossed $1 billion in career touring gross, with the ongoing Debi Tirar Mas Fotos World Tour at $360 million from 2.4 million tickets. Career gross, not personal earnings. source |
| Bruce Springsteen | 2025-07-03 | $729.7M | $1.2B | 4.9 million tickets across 129 shows, averaging $149.30 - and 65 per cent of the gross came from Europe. His career Boxscore total stands at about $2.3 billion from 22.6 million tickets, one of only four artists above $2 billion. Note that the career figure covers reported dates only, essentially from 1985 onward: the entire Born to Run and Darkness-era touring economy is missing from it. source |
| 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 |
| Shakira | 2026-01-29 | $421.6M | — | Figures reported to Billboard Boxscore: 3.3 million tickets across 86 shows, a Guinness record as the highest-grossing tour by a Hispanic act, passing Luis Miguel's $409.5 million in December 2025. The context that reframes it: her lifetime Boxscore total is $529.7 million across 206 reported shows, so everything before 2025 accounts for roughly $108 million. This is gross revenue of a Live Nation-promoted operation, not her income - promoter, venues, production, crew and withholding taxes come out first, and her participation rate has never been disclosed. We found no evidence she co-owns or produces the tour. source |
| Shania Twain | 2023-08 | $421.1M | $400M | Billboard Boxscore career total across 555 shows and 6.1 million tickets, from a first reported show in Sudbury in 1998 that took $319,000. This is gross box office - the take before promoter, venue, production, crew and agency costs - and aggregators that recast it as money she earned are misreading it by a wide margin. source |
| Paul McCartney | 2025-11-25 | $410.7M | $1.1B | 2.4 million tickets since April 2022, per Billboard Boxscore - reported dates only, so a floor. Treat competing totals with care: independent tabulations give $299.2 million from an explicitly partial 55 of 74 shows, and $194.6 million elsewhere. They count different sets of shows and cannot be reconciled or averaged. 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 |
| Bruno Mars | 2018-12 | $396.1M | $175M | Finished at about $396.1 million from 3.6 million tickets across 191 shows, a top-10 Billboard Boxscore tour at the time. Figure is the tour gross, not personal earnings. source |
| Bad Bunny | 2022 | $314.4M | $100M | Grossed $314.4 million from 1.9 million tickets across stadiums in the US and Latin America. Combined with the simultaneous El Ultimo Tour del Mundo ($116.8 million), his 2022 was the highest-grossing calendar year in Boxscore history at the time. Figures are tour gross, not personal earnings. source |
| Morgan Wallen | 2024-10 | $300M | $100M | Concluded after 87 shows and 3.1 million fans across 51 stadiums, grossing over $300 million - the highest-grossing country tour ever per Billboard Boxscore. Tour gross, not personal earnings: Forbes credited him $24 million from the following year's stadium run. source |
| Chris Brown | 2025-10 | $295.5M | $85M | Grossed $295.5 million from 1.98 million tickets across 49 shows per Billboard Boxscore (Pollstar reports $285 million over 48 shows). Forbes attributes roughly $60 million of his personal 2025 income to touring. The figure is box-office 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 |
| Billy Joel | 2024-07 | $260M | $250M | Closed a decade-long residency with his 150th lifetime MSG performance: 104 residency shows, nearly two million tickets and a gross of roughly $260-267 million - the third-highest-grossing residency in Billboard Boxscore history. Figure is the gross, not personal earnings. source |
| Kendrick Lamar | 2025 | $256.4M | $200M | The North American leg grossed $256.4 million from 1.1 million tickets across 23 shows, becoming the highest-grossing co-headline tour ever. Figure is the tour gross, split with SZA and before production and promoter costs - not his personal earnings. source |
| 21 Savage | 2023-10-07 | $215.9M | — | The first leg of the 2023 tour on which he was co-headliner, across 830,611 tickets. It is gross box office, before venue, promoter, production, crew, agency and tax. It was co-headlined and the split is not public. He did not play every date - unable to perform the Canadian shows, he was replaced in Toronto in October 2023, covering 34,290 tickets and $6.6 million. And the $320.5 million total often quoted includes a second leg in 2024 on which he did not appear at all. His own headline tour the following year ran 50 shows with no box office published. source |
| Bad Bunny | 2024 | $211.4M | $100M | Grossed $211.4 million from 753,000 tickets across sold-out arenas. 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 |
| Garth Brooks | 2025-03 | $137.7M | $350M | 72 shows between May 2023 and March 2025, 306,000 tickets, 99 per cent of available inventory sold - eighth-highest grossing residency in Las Vegas history. Caesars said 'exceeding $130 million' at the close; Billboard Boxscore's final figure is the higher one. Notably this is the only part of his touring career with a published gross, since he does not report his tours to Boxscore. source |
| Paul McCartney | 2019-07 | $129.2M | $1.1B | 928,252 tickets across a tour that ran from September 2018. Reported to Billboard Boxscore as a complete-tour total, which makes it more reliable than most of his tour figures - Boxscore counts only venues that submit, so most such totals are floors rather than true totals. source |
| Bruce Springsteen | 2018-12-15 | $113.1M | $1.2B | 236 performances and 223,585 seats at the Walter Kerr, the highest-grossing solo show in Broadway history, averaging $505.66 a ticket. The economics were unusually favourable - no band, no supporting cast, minimal crew, and the theatre owner waived rent for at least eight weeks - but his own share was never published. The 2021 return is not included here: the Broadway League declined to report grosses for it, so every figure in circulation for that run is an estimate. 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 |
| Shania Twain | 2023-11 | $110M | $400M | Billboard Boxscore put the tour total at $110 million as of its final date on 14 November 2023, with $85 million and 788,000 tickets falling inside the chart year. A fan-compiled sum of published boxscores gives $114.6 million; Billboard's figure is the one to use. 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 |
| Shania Twain | 2004-07 | $87.9M | $400M | Her highest-grossing single tour at $87.9 million. She then did not perform live again until December 2012, following Lyme disease and dysphonia that severely weakened her voice, and went fifteen years between studio albums. The eight-year touring gap is the clearest financial statement of the illness's impact. 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 |
| Jelly Roll | 2024-10 | $67.5M | $20M | His first arena headline tour grossed $67.5 million from 597,000 tickets across 48 shows per Billboard Boxscore - among the top country tours of 2025. Figure is the tour gross, not his personal earnings. source |
| Miley Cyrus | 2014 | $63.7M | $160M | Grossed roughly $63.7 million and remains her last full-scale world tour; the 2022 Attention Tour was five shows. Cyrus has said she made no profit on it, a claim Forbes examined in 2023. Reported grosses vary between $62.9 million and 'nearly $70 million' depending on the source. source |
| Gene Simmons | 2000-12-31 | $61.6M | — | 127 shows, 1,292,121 tickets. A second reported figure covers 2016 at $15.4 million. These are box-office gross - the promoter's cut, venue rent, one of the most expensive productions in rock, crew, management, agency and taxes all come out first, and the remainder then splits four ways under contracts that are not identical. His net share is documented nowhere. source |
| Janet Jackson | 2023-07 | $50.9M | $180M | 479,000 tickets, averaging 12,958 a night, reported to Billboard Boxscore - a higher per-show average than the janet., Velvet Rope or All for You tours. Pollstar's parallel accounting of the same leg gives $32.7 million from 307,651 tickets, ranking it 94th worldwide for 2023. That is a coverage difference between reporting systems, not a dispute - but the two must never be summed. source |
| Nelly | 2025 | $44.9M | $70M | 470,000 tickets across 51 shows in Australia, Europe and North America - the third-biggest rap tour of 2025 per Billboard's year-end Boxscore, ahead of Travis Scott and behind only Kendrick Lamar with SZA and Tyler, The Creator. Box-office gross, not the artist's earnings. Notably, no per-show Boxscore figure exists for him in any earlier era. source |
| Dave Chappelle | 2024 | $44.2M | $100M | Grossed $44.2 million from only 30 shows in the year to July 2024 per Pollstar, including four Madison Square Garden dates grossing $7.95 million. Box-office gross, not personal earnings. He tours in bursts - the following year totalled roughly $6.3 million. source |
| Jerry Seinfeld | 2024-08 | $43.7M | $1.1B | Grossed $43,700,000 from 329,832 tickets across 82 shows in the twelve months to August 2024, with a top venue gross of $5.58 million over two nights at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne. Box-office gross, not his earnings. source |
| Shania Twain | 2014-12 | $43.6M | $400M | 105 shows at Caesars Palace between December 2012 and December 2014 - her return to live performance after the eight-year hiatus. Box-office gross, not earnings. source |
| Reba McEntire | 2023 | $42.1M | $95M | Her biggest solo tour grossed $42.1 million per Billboard Boxscore. Career touring stands at $245.3 million across 861 shows and 7.5 million tickets. Figures are box-office gross, not personal earnings. source |
| Dua Lipa | 2022-04 | $40.1M | $115M | 394,000 tickets across 28 cities. The full 2022 run passed $101 million from 1.3 million tickets - but that figure covers 80 reported dates only, in the chart compiler's own wording, and is a subtotal rather than a tour total. source |
| Katt Williams | 2024-12 | $37.5M | $20M | 399,000 tickets, ranking fourth among comedy tours of 2024 and 84th on the all-genre Boxscore chart - the first act on that comedy list to cross onto it. The widely repeated $35 million and 400,000 tickets are a rounded misstatement of these figures. This is a gross: venue, promoter, production, agency and tax all come out before the performer. source |
| Bobby Brown | 2022-04-10 | $37.1M | — | Thirty shows, 330,270 tickets. This is gross ticket revenue for a package tour carrying three separate acts, one of them a six-member group. Out of it come venue costs, the promoter's share, production, crew, management and agency, and what remains is divided among all of them. It says nothing whatever about his income - and it is exactly the kind of headline figure that gets absorbed into wealth estimates. source |
| Bert Kreischer | 2023-10-15 | $33.4M | — | 481,684 tickets across 87 shows in 71 venues, ranked second among all comedy tours. The venue mix that year was 45 arenas, 23 theatres, 2 amphitheatres and a minor-league ballpark. Gross, not income. source |
| Kanye West | 2026-04 | $33M | $400M | Two sold-out shows reportedly grossed $33 million combined - among the highest single-venue grosses ever, per TMZ citing Bloomberg. Figure is the reported show gross, not his personal earnings, and is single-sourced. source |
| Bert Kreischer | 2024-09-30 | $29.7M | — | 388,000 tickets across 64 shows, ranked sixth. Fewer, larger dates than the year before. No wealth estimate anywhere reflects a curve that moves in both directions like this - which is the point of publishing the series rather than a single number. source |
| Mariah Carey | 2023 | $29.6M | $350M | Grossed $29.6 million from about 214,000 tickets - the highest-grossing tour of her career, ahead of the $30.3 million Sweet Sweet Fantasy Tour when adjusted for its shorter run. Tour gross, not personal earnings. source |
| Mariah Carey | 2015 | $23.9M | $350M | Her Caesars Palace residency grossed $23.9 million across 50 shows with 177,586 in attendance, per Billboard Boxscore. Figure is the box-office gross, not her personal earnings. source |
| Bert Kreischer | 2022-09-15 | $23.6M | — | The chart year to September 2022, with 369,943 tickets, ranked fourth among comedy tours. It is box office gross - before venue, promoter, production, crew, agency, management and tax - and the share reaching an arena comedian varies enormously by deal structure. His whole career to May 2023 was reported at nearly $60 million from 244 headline shows and 957,797 tickets since 2007. source |
| Simone Biles | 2021-11-07 | $19.3M | — | Figures reported to Billboard Boxscore: $19.3 million across 32 cities and 182,000 tickets between 21 September and 7 November 2021, with a best night of $1.17 million at Boston's TD Garden. This is tour revenue, not her income. AEG's own announcement of the 2024 run names MagicSpace Entertainment as producer and lists her solely as headliner - no producer credit, no ownership, no disclosed fee. No gross has ever been published for the 2024 tour, and sites attaching this figure to it are misdating it. source |
| Dua Lipa | 2025-06-21 | $19.1M | $115M | 151,000 tickets - the biggest single engagement of her career. The Radical Optimism tour had grossed $112.3 million from 960,000 tickets across 44 reported shows by late June, with roughly a third of the run still unplayed, and her career touring total stood at $220.1 million. source |
| Lionel Richie | 2025 | $17.8M | $200M | Grossed $17.8 million from 118,000 tickets across 25 shows in the year to September 2025, ranking ninth among R&B tours per Billboard Boxscore. Tour gross, not personal earnings. source |
| Janet Jackson | 2019-08 | $13M | $180M | 76,813 tickets at Park Theater, averaging $722,000 a night - which beat Celine Dion's $704,000 in 2011, Britney Spears' $679,000 in 2013 and the Backstreet Boys' $593,000 in 2017. Reported to Billboard Boxscore, and the best-documented single engagement of her career. source |
| Tom Segura | 2025 | $12.9M | $14M | Grossed $12,882,535 from 181,530 tickets across just 34 shows in the November 2024 to November 2025 chart year, an average of about $379,000 a night. Almost the same ticket count as 2022 from half as many dates - the move from theatres to arenas, visible in the numbers. source |
| Tom Segura | 2022 | $11.5M | $14M | Grossed $11,527,305 from 183,169 tickets across 62 shows in the chart year running September 2021 to September 2022. This is box-office gross reported to Pollstar, not Segura's earnings. source |
| Mary J. Blige | 2024-05 | $2.1M | $20M | 13,216 tickets at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, per Pollstar - her best documented single-night box office. A 2022 sellout at Newark's Prudential Center grossed $1,840,547 from 12,851 tickets. She toured 25 North American arenas in early 2025, though no grosses have been published for that run. source |
| Dave Grohl | 2021-06-20 | $1.4M | — | A single show at a flagship New York arena, 15,371 tickets at $50 to $119, and the band's highest gross at that building. It refutes a widely repeated claim rather than supporting it: across a 2011 arena run of more than 30 North American dates the average was about $586,000, so seven-figure nights are the exception. Earlier figures at the same venue were $678,540 in February 2008 and just over $1,080,000 in November 2011. Gross is ticket revenue before promoter, building, production, crew, support acts, agency and tax - and before it splits among band members. source |
| Jack Harlow | 2023-12-03 | $1.2M | — | 12,450 tickets at a Kentucky arena, the closing date of a six-city home-state run. Against $189,150 for a sold-out Denver ballroom in November 2021, that is a 6.6-fold increase in two years and the sharpest documented growth in his file. Gross is not income: venue, promoter, production, support acts, agency at typically 10 per cent and management are paid first, and his share is not public. The same trade record documents an agent relationship from 2017 and a change of agency by early 2026. source |
| Theo Von | 2025-11-12 | — | He is absent from Pollstar's Top 100 comedy tours for 2025, where hundredth place is $1,335,797, and from Billboard's Top 10, where tenth place is $15.7 million. Both charts rest on box office data reported to them voluntarily, so an arena headliner missing from a list with a $1.3 million floor has not earned less - his team simply does not file. His only charted appearance is a 2023 debut noted as with theater dates, above that year's roughly $5 million threshold, with the number itself paywalled. No amount is carried because none exists publicly. source | |
| Billy Joel | 2025-05 | $250M | Cancelled all scheduled concerts through July 2026, including Yankee Stadium and Citi Field dates, citing a diagnosis of normal pressure hydrocephalus. No return date has been announced and no retirement declared. The forgone revenue has not been quantified publicly. source | |
| Bert Kreischer | 2025-09-30 | — | His name does not appear on the 2025 list, where tenth place was $15.7 million. So either he grossed less than that or nothing was filed. This is a finding rather than a gap, and it is the fourth point on a curve that runs fourth, second, sixth, off the list. 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.