Beyoncé Sets New Record After ‘Cowboy Carter’ Tour

Who runs the world? Apparently, it is Beyoncé.

After simply the primary 5 reveals of her “Cowboy Carter” tour, a brand new report reveals Beyoncé shattered one other music business document, grossing $55.7 million at Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium.

In keeping with a brand new report printed by Billboard, Beyoncé has damaged one other document, grossing $55.7 million in the course of the “Cowboy Carter” tour’s first 5 reveals alone.

The publication reported that 217,000 tickets have been offered throughout the 5 showstopping performances, making Beyoncé’s manufacturing the highest-grossing reported single-venue engagement ever by a girl.

The “Cowboy Carter” tour can also be the fifth-highest-grossing tour run in Billboard Boxscore‘s historical past, behind two legs of U2’s Sphere residency in 2023/2024, Harry Kinds’ prolonged residency at Madison Sq. Backyard in 2022, and eight nights of Take That at Wembley Stadium in London in 2011.

Queen Bey’s “Cowboy Carter” tour kicked off on April 28, the place she was joined on stage by her daughters Blue Ivy and Rumi Carter.

In keeping with Billboard, Beyoncé grossed $11.1 million per present and performed to just about 45,000 loyal BeyHive members an evening.

Her stint at SoFi additionally means the “TYRANT” singer has now performed extra reveals on the stadium than every other artist within the venue’s historical past, bringing her whole to eight, together with her three “RENAISSANCE” productions in 2023.

Though she has thrilling information to be pleased with, Beyoncé has needed to take care of a little bit of destructive press since starting her present.

As The Blast reported in early Could, James Dolan, proprietor of the Las Vegas Sphere, despatched Beyoncé and her manufacturing firm, Parkwood Leisure, a stop and desist letter after she used their venue in her tour’s interlude visuals with out permission.

“Beyoncé — many orders of magnitude bigger than the Sphere venue — leans over, picks up the venue, and looms over it,” Kathleen McCarthy, a lawyer representing Dolan, wrote in a press release.

McCarthy went on to say that Bey’s interlude has induced “vital hypothesis” that she would finish her tour with a “Sphere residency.”

The letter requested Beyoncé and Parkwood to cease utilizing the footage of their venue “with out permission” so there’d be no confusion amongst followers.

“It has lately come to SEG’s consideration {that a} Cowboy Carter tour interlude video incorporates the unauthorized use of SEG’s mental property,” the letter learn. “SEG is certain that a number of features of the interlude video, together with different manufacturers, clips, and music, have been duly cleared by the tour with rights permissions from the rights holders whose works have been used within the video, as is widespread apply. SEG, nevertheless, was by no means requested, and the distinguished look and manipulation of SEG’s Sphere venue within the video is unauthorized.”

After receiving the authorized discover, the “Single Women” singer obliged and eliminated the clip of the Sphere from her visuals. Nevertheless, her subsequent strikes are what actually despatched her followers right into a frenzy.

In the course of the subsequent present at SoFi, eagle-eyed followers rapidly noticed that she had swapped the Sphere visual for footage of Vegas’ Allegiant Stadium, the place she is going to carry out the “Cowboy Carter” tour on July 25 and 26.

Her manufacturing firm additionally posted the clip on Instagram, writing, “What occurs in Vegas begins with a BANG.”

A number of of the “Say My Title” singer’s followers commented on her transfer, suggesting that they have been siding together with her.