{"id":249864,"date":"2026-01-17T17:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T17:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/249864\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T17:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T17:07:07","slug":"country-musics-richest-singer-is-now-a-billionaire-can-you-guess-who-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/249864\/","title":{"rendered":"Country music\u2019s richest singer is now a billionaire. Can you guess who it is?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Country music is big business, and there are a handful of singers who have been in that business and doing quite well for decades.<\/p>\n

That can mean big-time bucks, but it turns out the richest singer in country music is pretty new to the scene. <\/p>\n

That singer? Beyonc\u00e9.<\/p>\n

For the folks who missed it, the Cowboy Carter artist recently made it into elite company as one of only five musicians in the world to amass a net worth of $1 billion or more,according to Forbes.<\/a><\/p>\n

She sits right at $1 billion while her husband, Jay-X, sits atop the list with $2.53 billion. <\/p>\n

Rihanna, with an estimated fortune of $1.03 billion, Bruce Springsteen ($1.17 billion), and Taylor Swift ($2.1 billion) round out that list of five.<\/p>\n

As for the richest artists in country music, Dolly Parton is right behind Beyonc\u00e9 with an estimated fortune of $650 million followed by Garth Brooks ($400 million) and Shania Twain ($350-410 million).<\/p>\n

Beyonc\u00e9 has several business interests that have helped boost her wealth including a hair care brand, a whiskey label, and a clothing line, but Forbes noted that her musical career remains red-hot and is the main source of her fortune.<\/p>\n

The outlet reported that Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s recent Cowboy Carter Tour had more than $400 million in gross ticket sales and sold an estimated $50 million in merchandise.<\/p>\n

Her cut from everything in 2025, per Forbes, was an estimated $125 million. The outlet said that made her the third-highest paid musician in the world for the year.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Parade highlighted Parton\u2019s fortune in 2025, noting that it\u2019s not just her legendary hits like \u201cJolene,\u201d that have paid off for her. She has had a successful acting career and she has multiple successful books and product lines on the business side that have allowed her to amass her wealth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Country music is big business, and there are a handful of singers who have been in that business…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[39805,93,61,60,278],"class_list":{"0":"post-249864","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-acm","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}