The B stands for billionaire.
Superstar artist Beyoncé Knowles-Carter — also known as “Queen B” to her fervent fans — has become the fifth musician to reach billionaire status, according to Forbes, joining the ranks of her husband Jay-Z, Taylor Swift, Bruce Springsteen and Rihanna.
The 44-year-old pop star shot to super-stardom in the early 2000s with a solo career after breaking away from her R&B group Destiny’s Child.
A pivot to Western music last year with her album “Cowboy Carter” and stadium tour – which became the most successful country music tour in history – helped propel her fortune to new heights.
Beyoncé joined the billionaires’ club after earning an estimated $148 million in 2025 before taxes, according to Forbes. The publication did not put an exact dollar amount on her total fortune.
Reps for Beyoncé did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.
Forbes noted that for musicians, the real moneymaker these days is a sold-out stadium – so artists have been creating super-size fan experiences like Swift’s The Eras Tour.
Along with three hours of live music, Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter Tour included a flying car, robots that poured out glasses of her whiskey brand SirDavis, a golden mechanical bull and guest appearances from her rapper husband, their kids and former Destiny’s Child bandmates.
Parkwood Entertainment, which Beyoncé founded in 2010, produces all of her music, documentaries and concerts and runs nearly every aspect of her career in-house, allowing the singer to reap even bigger profits than she otherwise might.
She also has her own hair care line, Cécred, and shares a multi-million-dollar real estate portfolio with Jay-Z. Her clothing line Ivy Park was scrapped in 2024.
The wealth has fueled a lavish lifestyle for the star couple. They have shelled out on glam birthday celebrations in the south of France, with guest lists reportedly including stars like Kris Jenner and Lisa from BLACKPINK; vacations at a luxury French Polynesian resort on Marlon Brando’s private island; and mansions in New York City, Miami, New Orleans, the Hamptons and Los Angeles.
Album-equivalent sales of Beyoncé’s discography – which include digital and physical sales, along with online streaming – in 2025 were actually less than half those of other top pop artists like Sabrina Carpenter and Bad Bunny, according to data provider Luminate.
But the Cowboy Carter Tour raked in more than $400 million in ticket sales alone, according to Pollstar, plus another $50 million in merchandise, Forbes reported.
The spectacle required more than 350 crew members, 100 semitrucks’ worth of equipment and eight 747 cargo planes to move between nine stadiums in the US and Europe for 32 shows total.
On top of earnings from her concert tour, which was the highest-grossing one of the year, Beyoncé made an estimated $50 million from an Emmy-winning Christmas NFL halftime show and grossed nearly $300 million with The Renaissance World Tour in 2023.
About $10 million of Beyoncé’s wealth came from a series of Levi’s jeans commercials in which she leaned into her new country image.
The promotion marked the latest in a series of big pay days for the multi-talented star.
Netflix paid her about $60 million for a documentary of her 2018 Coachella performance.
Her surprise self-titled album in 2013 was also a major hit, along with her “visual album” on HBO for “Lemonade” in 2016.
Beyoncé pocketed nearly half of the $44 million global box office gross from her concert film of her Renaissance World Tour – which she distributed directly through the AMC movie theater chain, like Swift.
Recent years have seen Beyoncé and Jay-Z become real estate moguls, too.
In 2023, the couple broke records when they paid nearly $200 million for a Malibu, Calif. mansion from art collectors William Bell, Jr. and Maria Bell – making it the most expensive home in the state’s history.
Beyoncé and Jay-Z – who started on their real estate empire when they got married in 2008 – previously owned a $9 million mansion on the exclusive Miami island known as “Billionaires’ Bunker.”
They moved on to an $88 million Bel Air, Calif. mansion with eight bedrooms, 11 bathrooms, spas, a helipad, four outdoor swimming pools and a 15-car garage.
The duo has rented various properties across the Hamptons in New York and in Los Angeles – complete with bowling alleys, home theaters and wine cellars – at jaw-dropping rates as high as $400,000 a month.
Now they are on the verge of buying 18 acres of land in the Cotswolds, outside of London, for a mega-mansion – taking advantage of a planning loophole used by the wealthy to build “architecturally important buildings” where planners would otherwise reject new applications, according to the Daily Mail.
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