{"id":207357,"date":"2025-12-29T22:06:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T22:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/207357\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T22:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T22:06:07","slug":"beyonce-is-now-a-billionaire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/207357\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyonce Is Now a Billionaire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tBeyonc\u00e9 has earned her place among the pantheon of the world\u2019s wealthiest musicians, with <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mattcraig\/2025\/12\/23\/beyonce-is-now-a-billionaire\/\">Forbes<\/a> declaring the pop icon a billionaire.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tAccording to the publication, Beyonc\u00e9 is one of 22 billionaire entertainers, but only the fifth musician. She joins her husband, Jay-Z, as well as Taylor Swift, Bruce Springsteen, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/rihanna-billionaire-1207208\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rihanna<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tWhile Beyonc\u00e9 has embarked on a variety of business ventures, it appears that her wealth stems primarily from her music. She reportedly controls the copyrights to much of her catalog, and all of her creative output \u2014 from music and documentaries to tours \u2014 is produced under the umbrella of her company, Parkwood Entertainment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tWhile this setup means Beyonc\u00e9 fronts a lot of the money for her creative endeavors, it also means she\u2019s able to bring in more of the profits. For instance, her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/beyonce-cowboy-carter-tour-cities-1235255019\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2025 tour<\/a> in support of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/beyonce-cowboy-carter-review-1234996919\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cowboy Carter<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/beyonce-cowboy-carter-tour-records-grosses-400-million-1235395446\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">grossed a whopping $407.6 million<\/a> from just 32 concerts, making it the \u201cshortest\u201d tour to ever reach $400 million (per Billboard Boxscore, which collects touring data). Merch from the Cowboy Carter tour \u2014 which Parkwood produced \u2014 netted her an additional $50 million. All of this came just a few years after Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/beyonce-renaissance-review-1386200\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Renaissance<\/a> tour amassed $579 million in 2023.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tBeyonc\u00e9\u2019s other recent lucrative ventures include her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/beyonce-christmas-halftime-show-best-moments-1235218228\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">halftime show<\/a> for Netflix\u2019s first Christmas Day NFL game last year (an estimated $50 million), and an ad deal with Levi\u2019s reportedly worth about $10 million. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/tv-movies\/tv-movie-reviews\/beyonces-renaissance-a-film-review-1234908786\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">concert film<\/a> she produced for her Renaissance tour made about $44 million at the global box office. She also has her own hair care brand and whiskey (while her clothing line, Ivy Park, was discontinued in 2024).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tAfter her extremely busy and big 2025, it\u2019s unclear what exactly Beyonc\u00e9 has planned for 2026. At the moment, the biggest thing on her calendar is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/met-gala-2026-beyonce-co-chair-nicole-kidman-venus-williams-1235481606\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">co-chairing the Met Gala<\/a> alongside Nicole Kidman, Venus Williams, and Anna Wintour. This will be Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s first time attending the Met Gala since 2016.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tFans are also hoping that Beyonc\u00e9 will share <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/beyonce-act-iii-album-genre-predictions-1234994311\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cAct III,\u201d<\/a> the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/beyonce-rock-era-hints-1235400378\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">third installment<\/a> of her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/beyonce-reveals-renaissance-is-first-act-three-part-project-1389290\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported album trilogy<\/a>, which began with Renaissance and continued with Cowboy Carter. No concrete details about the album \u2014 including a release date \u2014 have been shared yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beyonc\u00e9 has earned her place among the pantheon of the world\u2019s wealthiest musicians, with Forbes declaring the pop&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1163,11346,156,16049,157,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-207357","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-beyonce","9":"tag-billionaires","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-forbes","12":"tag-music","13":"tag-new-zealand","14":"tag-newzealand","15":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}