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The following is a list of the highest-grossing concert tours by women (soloists and all-female groups), divided in all-time terms and by decade. Many reported figures are taken from Billboard and Pollstar, two major publications that regularly provide the official figures of concerts' gross revenue worldwide; although both publications have had missing data in their early reporting, including the lattermost which did not begin to track overseas data until late 2000s.

Female touring industry have been generally dominated by pop stars such as Madonna, P!nk, Beyoncé and Taylor Swift —who have had their names among the all-time highest-grossing live music artists and have also tours among the highest-grossing concert tours in history— as well Tina Turner from the rock scene, Spice Girls and Blackpink among girl groups, and Celine Dion among adult contemporary balladeers. Turner and Dion were among the first performers to have been claimed with revenue passing $100 million in a single tour.

As of December 2024, the highest-grossing tour by a woman is the Eras Tour by Swift, with a revenue of US$2.07 billion from 147 shows. The Eras Tour is also the highest-grossing tour ever overall; its figures were not reported to Billboard, which listed Beyoncé's Renaissance World Tour as the all-time top female tour excluding the Eras Tour. In the Billboard Box Score history, previous record holders includes Tina Turner's Twenty Four Seven Tour (between 2000 and 2003) and Cher's Living Proof: The Farewell Tour (between 2003 and 2006), and Madonna's Confessions Tour (between 2006 and 2008) and Sticky & Sweet Tour (between 2008 and 2023).

Legend

List of highest-grossing concert tours by women

• Taylor Swift at the Eras Tour
• Pink at the Summer Carnival
• Beyoncé at the Renaissance World Tour

List of highest-grossing concert tours by female groups

• Blackpink at the Born Pink World Tour
• Twice at the Ready to Be World Tour
• Spice Girls on Spice World – 2019 Tour

Decade rankings

1980s

• Tina Turner at the Private Dancer Tour
• Madonna at the Who's That Girl World Tour

1990s

• Shania Twain at the Come On Over Tour
• Madonna at The Girlie Show
• Madonna at the Blond Ambition World Tour

2000s

• Madonna at the Sticky & Sweet Tour
• Celine Dion at Taking Chances World Tour
• Cher at Living Proof: The Farewell Tour

2010s

• Pink at the Beautiful Trauma World Tour
• Taylor Swift at the Reputation Stadium Tour
• Madonna at The MDNA Tour

2020s

• Taylor Swift at The Eras Tour
• P!nk at the Summer Carnival Tour
• Beyoncé at the Renaissance World Tour

List of highest average gross per concert

Annual highest-grossing tours

No female artists were included at various Pollstar year-end reports, including 1991 or 1992 for instance. Amusement Business, sister publication of Billboard, counted both U.S. and overseas data while Pollstar only reported North American statistics during several years, until 2008. List does not include concert residencies, which is the case of Celine Dion, whom topped the tours of 2005 and 2007 by female artists with her residency.

• Madonna at the MDNA Tour, her seventh annual highest-grossing tour
• Cher at the Living Proof: The Farewell Tour, the annual highest-grossing tour three times
• Taylor Swift at the Reputation Stadium Tour, her third annual highest-grossing tour

See also

• Touring industry
  • List of highest-grossing concert tours
  • List of highest-grossing live music artists
  • List of most-attended concert tours
  • List of most-attended concerts
  • List of highest-grossing concert residencies
  • List of highest-grossing concert tours by Latin artists
• Women in music
  • List of best-selling albums by women
  • List of best-selling girl groups
  • List of best-selling female rappers

Notes

1. ^ As reported by either the Guinness World Records or touring-related publications such as Billboard Box Score and Pollstar.
2. Divided in $188.6 million (2013) and $40.5 million (2014)
3. According to Billboard boxscore, the Confessions Tour surpassed Cher's Living Proof: The Farewell Tour as the highest-grossing female tour of all time. However, many of Cher's dates were not reported to the boxscore. Billboard estimated Cher's 2002–2005 gross at "well over $200 million".
4. Excluding Asian shows, which were not reported to Billboard.
5. Other estimated reports stand at $25 million. According to Pollstar, the tour generated $14.9 million from 22 shows in the United States alone.
6. Only North American shows reported until 1987.
7. Other estimated reports stand at $91 million.
8. Reba McEntire made appearance at the Top 10, but it was a tour co-headlined by Brooks & Dunn.

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External links

• Ladies Might: Box Office Triumph By Top Female Earners — Pollstar (Highest-grossing female touring acts from 2000 to 2020)

• Lists of concerts and performances
• Entertainment-related lists of superlatives
• Women in music