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By Chris Lau, NCS
(NCS) — Beyoncé has joined the ranks of billionaires, in line with Forbes, turning into the fifth musician to be topped the elite standing.
The Grammy Award-winning celebrity now stands alongside Taylor Swift, Bruce Springsteen, Rihanna and her husband Jay-Z, in line with a report revealed by Forbes.
The 44 –yr-previous’s monetary ascent follows a landmark yr in her profession. . Beyoncé took residence the business’s high trophy, successful Album of the Year at the 2025 Grammy for her nation album “Cowboy Carter,” launched the yr prior. She additionally made historical past as the first Black lady to win the award for Best Country Album.
With 35 Grammy wins and 99 nominations, she is the most-awarded artist in the historical past of the awards, together with these she received with Destiny’s Child, a chart-topping lady group that helped launch her storied profession.
The “Cowboy Carter Tour” grossed greater than $400 million, making it the highest-grossing nation tour in historical past, Reuters reported, citing Live Nation.
In 2024, music charting website Billboard named her the best pop star of the twenty first century highlighting “her full 25 years of influence, impact, evolution,” Billboard’s Andrew Unterberger wrote.
Her 2023 “Renaissance World Tour” drew huge crowds, with followers – identified collectively as the BeyHive – flocking to see her carry out throughout Europe and North America.
In Stockholm, the place she kicked off the tour, fanfare drove up lodge and restaurant costs and even slowed down Sweden’s declining inflation, in line with economists.
In addition to her musical achievements, Beyoncé has constructed a various enterprise empire. She has launched profitable clothes and hair care traces, and expanded into the beverage business with a whisky model named after her nice-grandfather, SirDavis. Her entrepreneurial ventures have contributed to her rising fortune.
Beyoncé’s street to superstardom started in the early Nineteen Nineties, when she appeared on “Star Search” as a part of Girl’s Tyme, a six-member group. She later joined Destiny’s Child, which grew to become one among the greatest-promoting lady teams in the late 90s and early 2000s.
The group’s different members, Michelle Williams and Kelly Rowland, reunited together with her on stage earlier this yr throughout her “Cowboy Carter” tour in Las Vegas.
Since Destiny’s Child introduced its hiatus in 2001, Beyoncé has launched a sequence of acclaimed solo albums, beginning with “Dangerously in Love” in 2003, which received 5 Grammy Awards the following yr.
She has headlined main music festivals, together with turning into the first lady of coloration to guide the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in 2018.
In 2023, she surpassed conductor Georg Solti to turn into the most awarded artist in Grammy’s historical past.
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