It’s a new month, but the same results. Again, Beyoncé is No. 1 on Billboard’s monthly Top Tours chart with more than $100 million in grosses. According to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore, Cowboy Carter Tour earned $136.8 million and sold 594,000 tickets across 11 shows in June.
Those numbers comfortably make Beyoncé the highest-grossing and best-selling artist of the month. It’s her sixth time on top, putting her one win away from tying Bad Bunny, Coldplay and Elton John for the record since the charts launched in 2019.
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Through the end of June, Cowboy Carter Tour grossed $305.3 million and sold 1.2 million tickets. But by the tour’s final bow on Saturday (July 26) in Las Vegas, the entire run reached $407.6 and 1.6 million tickets. That makes it the highest grossing reported country tour in Boxscore history and makes Beyoncé the only woman and the only American act to push two separate tours over the $400 million mark, including 2023’s Renaissance World Tour. She remains one of the top 10 highest grossing artists of all time and extends her lead as the top Black artist and top R&B artist.
Beyoncé’s June breaks down to six nights at London’s Tottenham Hotspur Stadium (June 5-16), three at Paris’ Stade de France (June 19, 21-22), and two at Houston’s NRG Stadium (June 28-29). Those engagements run the board on Top Boxscores, blocking out the top three spots in that order.
The six shows in London grossed $61.6 million and sold 275,000 tickets. They fall short of the gross for Beyoncé’s five-night run at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium ($70.3 million) but take the cake on ticket sales, becoming the best-selling city of Cowboy Carter Tour. Paris was the only other stop on the trek outside the U.S., adding $39.7 million and 103,000 tickets.
Though Houston was Beyoncé’s lowest grossing market of the month ($35.5 million), its double-header posted the best per-show gross of Cowboy Carter Tour and of her entire career, averaging $17.7 million each night.
Like on many of the other stops on Cowboy Carter Tour, Beyoncé broke venue records at these three cities. In all three, she set or extended an already-existing record for the most sold-out shows across her career, in addition to records for gross and ticket sales.
The Weeknd is next up, both in gross ($91.8 million) and attendance (543,000). He kicked off the month in New York and ended across the country in Los Angeles, hitting Boston, Minneapolis and Denver in between.
The highlight of The Weeknd’s June was four shows at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Calif. (Los Angeles area). Those collectively earned $34 million and sold 193,000 tickets. It was the biggest engagement of his career, topping the $31.3 million from earlier in the same month at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. (New York area). Those stints round out the top five of Top Boxscores at Nos. 4-5, respectively.
Through July 12, the After Hours til Dawn Tour has grossed $558.3 million from 4.5 million tickets sold since launching in 2022. It is fast approaching the all-time R&B record, pushing up against Beyoncé’s Renaissance World Tour ($579.8 million). With dates scheduled through Sept. 3 in San Antonio, the tour is expected to sail past $600 million and finish as one of the 10 biggest tours ever, R&B or otherwise.
A pair of iconic rock groups follow on Top Tours, with Metallica at No. 3 and Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band at No. 4. The former pushed its ongoing M72 World Tour over the $400 million mark, while the latter wrapped a three-year trek with more than $700 million.
In addition to rock, The Weeknd’s R&B and Beyoncé’s country, the rest of the top 10 paints a pan-genre picture of this summer’s biggest tours: Kendrick Lamar & SZA represent hip-hop at No. 5 ($62.4 million), Stray Kids reps for K-pop artists at No. 7 ($57.8 million), Shakira for Latin at No. 8 ($55.9 million), and Dua Lipa ($52.3 million) and Ed Sheeran ($49.7 million) for pop at Nos. 9-10, respectively.
June’s Top Tours chart represents a massive showing for stadium season. With nine tours over $50 million and a 10th that rounds up to it, this month’s chart is record-breaking. June’s top 30 tours grossed more than $1 billion combined for the first time with 7.5 million tickets sold. Every entry on Top Boxscores surpassed $10 million.
That translates to the Top Stadiums ranking, where each of the top 10 grossed more than $20 million. Chris Brown added two shows to Beyoncé’s haul at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, sending the London venue’s monthly intake to $71.8 million, at No. 1 on the list.
Among arenas, two familiar names lead the charge. Las Vegas’ Sphere is No. 1, followed extremely closely by London’s O2 Arena. They earned $31.8 million and $31.5 million, separated by about $250,000, or less than 1%.
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