Who run the world..? Beyoncé, because the US megastar has formally reached billionaire standing after her daring transfer into nation music.

The Texas Maintain ‘Em hitmaker, 44, has loved over 30 stadium reveals in celebration of her eighth studio album Cowboy Carter – which was the highest-grossing live performance tour of 2025 – that means Queen Bey has formally entered the billionaire membership, in keeping with Forbes.

The outlet estimates Beyoncé’s pre-tax revenue this yr was $148million (£109m), making her the third highest paid musician on the planet, along with her Cowboy Carter mini-residencies grossing $400m ($296m) in ticket gross sales.

Beyoncé is now the fifth musician to turn out to be a billionaire, alongside her husband Jay-Z – price $2.5billion (£1.85b) – Taylor Swift, who has a $1.6b (£1.03b) web price, in addition to Rihanna and Bruce Springsteen who additionally simply make the record.

In 2010 Beyoncé took management of her enterprise empire, founding Parkwood Leisure, which manages nearly all facets of her profession from live shows to documentaries.

Speaking in a 2013 interview the Single Girls hitmaker mentioned she needed to handle herself to ‘comply with the footsteps of Madonna and be a powerhouse and have [her] personal empire’.

She needed to ‘present different ladies if you get so far in your profession you don’t need to go signal with another person and share your cash and your success—you do it your self’.

In addition to her music, Beyoncé has a hair care model known as Cecred, a SirDavis whiskey label and her discontinued clothes line, Ivy Park.

Together with her 32 live shows in 2025 – spanning 9 stadiums – Beyoncé is believed to have collected an estimated $50m (£37m) from Netflix’s first Christmas Day NFL halftime present and pocketed an estimated $10m (£7.4m) by way of her Levi commercials, which additionally promoted her Western period.

Beyoncé instructed GQ earlier this yr: ‘I’ve made an excessive effort to remain true to my boundaries and defend myself and my household.

She added: ‘No sum of money is price my peace.’

Different well-known billionaires embody US discuss present host Oprah Winfrey, Kim Kardashian, Lord of the Rings filmmaker Peter Jackson, comic Jerry Seinfeld, and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Whereas many congratulated Beyoncé’s new title on social media, others have been reminded of the 2016 controversy along with her joint style enterprise with Topshop’s Philip Inexperienced, in Ivy Park.

The sportswear label was accused of manufacturing garments in ‘sweat-shop circumstances’ in Sri Lankan factories, the place employees have been paid £4.30 a day, in keeping with an investigation by The Solar.

‘This can be a type of sweat-shop slavery,’ Jakub Sobik, of Anti-Slavery Worldwide, instructed The Solar on the time.

‘There are a variety of parts right here that tick the packing containers by way of slavery, the low pay, restriction of ladies’s motion at night time and locking them in. Corporations like Topshop have an obligation to seek out out if these items are occurring, and it has lengthy been proven that moral inspections by these firms are failing. They need to get replaced by impartial inspections.’

‘Ivy Park has a rigorous moral buying and selling programme,’ the corporate mentioned in response to the claims.

‘We’re pleased with our sustained efforts by way of manufacturing unit inspections and audits, and our groups worldwide work very intently with our suppliers and their factories to make sure compliance. We count on our suppliers to fulfill our code of conduct and we help them in attaining these necessities.’

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