Beyoncé Breaks Records With Cowboy Carter Tour
Beyoncé is riding high literally and musically after rewriting the rules of country music and shattering records. Her Cowboy Carter Tour, built around her bold, genre-bending 2024 album of the same name, has officially become the highest-grossing country tour in history. According to Billboard, Beyoncé brought in a staggering $407.6 million in ticket sales, with over 1.6 million tickets sold across just 32 shows. That’s more than $12 million per concert.
At 43, the 35-time Grammy winner is not only dominating the charts, but also making history. The Cowboy Carter Tour is now the shortest tour ever to cross the $400 million mark.
And she didn’t do it quietly. Beyoncé took over nine U.S. cities, including Los Angeles, Houston, New York City, and Atlanta,plus two stops in Europe: London and Paris. Each performance was a full-on three-hour musical celebration featuring more than 40 songs, stunning visuals, and surprise guest appearances.
From her golden mechanical horse to a red horseshoe and a tricked-out convertible lowrider, Beyoncé’s set design was pure spectacle. But what really made the tour shine was the family-style magic. Jay-Z, Blue Ivy, and even little Rumi joined her on stage at different points. Her mother, Tina Knowles, and special guests like Miley Cyrus, Destiny’s Child, Shaboozey, and The Mayyas also showed up.
It’s the kind of success story no one really saw coming especially because Cowboy Carter was born out of rejection. Before the album dropped in March, Beyoncé revealed on Instagram that it came from a moment when she didn’t feel welcome in country music. “And it was very clear that I wasn’t,” she wrote then. But instead of stepping back, she dug deeper into Black musical roots, into American history, into herself.
“The criticisms I faced when I first entered this genre forced me to propel past the limitations that were put on me,” she shared. The result was a fearless, genre-blending project that bent every rule and earned her three Grammy wins, including her long-overdue first win for Album of the Year at the 2025 ceremony.
“I just feel very full and very honored,” she said in her emotional acceptance speech. She dedicated the win to Linda Martell, the first Black woman to break into country music and a featured voice on Cowboy Carter. “Opening doors. God bless y’all. Thank you so much. Thank you.”
But Beyoncé’s victory lap isn’t over. Next up? The 2025 Emmy Awards, where she’ll go head-to-head with Jay-Z in the Outstanding Variety Special (Live) category. Her nomination comes from her epic Netflix Christmas game day halftime show, her first live Cowboy Carter performance. Meanwhile, Jay-Z’s nod comes from his production work on the Kendrick Lamar-led Super Bowl Halftime Show.
