{"id":347797,"date":"2026-01-02T08:52:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T08:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/347797\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T08:52:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T08:52:13","slug":"beyonce-declared-the-fifth-billionaire-musician-by-forbes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/347797\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyonc\u00e9 declared the fifth billionaire musician by Forbes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Beyonce <\/a>Beyonce now stands alongside Taylor Swift, Rihanna and Jay Z<\/p>\n

Beyonc\u00e9 has joined the ranks of billionaires, according to Forbes, becoming the fifth musician to be crowned with the elite status.<\/p>\n

The Grammy Award-winning superstar now stands alongside Taylor Swift, Bruce Springsteen, Rihanna, and her husband, Jay-Z, according to a report published by the outlet Monday.<\/p>\n

The 44-year-old\u2019s financial ascent follows a landmark year in her career. Beyonc\u00e9 took home the industry\u2019s top trophy, winning Album of the Year at the 2025 Grammy for her country album \u201cCowboy Carter,\u201d released the year prior. She also made history as the first Black woman to win the award for Best Country Album.<\/p>\n

With 35 Grammy wins and 99 nominations, she is the most-awarded artist in the history of the awards, including those she won with Destiny\u2019s Child, a chart-topping girl group that helped launch her storied career.<\/p>\n

The \u201cCowboy Carter Tour\u201d grossed more than $400 million, making it the highest-grossing country tour in history, Reuters reported, citing Live Nation.<\/p>\n

In 2024, music charting site Billboard named her the greatest pop star of the 21st century, highlighting \u201cher full 25 years of influence, impact, and evolution,\u201d Billboard\u2019s Andrew Unterberger wrote.<\/p>\n

Her 2023 \u201cRenaissance World Tour\u201d drew massive crowds, with fans \u2013 known collectively as the BeyHive \u2013 flocking to see her perform across Europe and North America.<\/p>\n

In Stockholm, where she kicked off the tour, fanfare drove up hotel and restaurant prices and even slowed down Sweden\u2019s declining inflation, according to economists.<\/p>\n

In addition to her musical achievements, Beyonc\u00e9 has built a diverse business empire. She has launched successful clothing and hair care lines, and expanded into the beverage industry with a whisky brand named after her great-grandfather, SirDavis. Her entrepreneurial ventures have contributed to her growing fortune.<\/p>\n

Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s road to superstardom began in the early 1990s, when she appeared on \u201cStar Search\u201d as part of Girl\u2019s Tyme, a six-member group. She later joined Destiny\u2019s Child, which became one of the best-selling girl groups in the late 90s and early 2000s.<\/p>\n

The group\u2019s other members, Michelle Williams and Kelly Rowland, reunited with her on stage earlier this year during her \u201cCowboy Carter\u201d tour in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

Since Destiny\u2019s Child announced its hiatus in 2001, Beyonc\u00e9 has released a series of acclaimed solo albums, starting with \u201cDangerously in Love\u201d in 2003, which won five Grammy Awards the following year.<\/p>\n

She has headlined major music festivals, including becoming the first woman of color to lead the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in 2018.<\/p>\n

In 2023, she surpassed conductor Georg Solti to become the most awarded artiste in Grammy\u2019s history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beyonce now stands alongside Taylor Swift, Rihanna and Jay Z Beyonc\u00e9 has joined the ranks of billionaires, according…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-347797","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}