Pink surpasses Beyoncé for highest-grossing female tour of all time

Pink now has the highest-grossing female tour of all time, Billboard reported this week.

Raking in $585 million worldwide, The Who Knew hitmaker’s Summer Carnival surpassed Beyonce’s Renaissance Tour, which grossed $579.8 million last year.

However, to put things into perspective, the Summer Carnival tour played 97 shows, compared to Renaissance’s 56.

While Pink, 45, currently boasts the highest-grossing female tour ever, she will be officially surpassed by Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour once the numbers are calculated.

The official figures for The Eras Tour aren’t in yet, but the total gross is expected to be close to $2 billion, making it the most lucrative tour of all time.

Pink has established herself as a formidable live act over the last fifteen years thanks to her aerial stunts and live vocals. 

She’s sold million of tickets in Australia alone, where she’s the country’s biggest ever female touring artist.

‘The ticket sales for the #SummerCarnivalTour are the biggest for any tour by a female artist in Australia,’ she posted back in March. 

‘Nobody else has ever played 20 stadium shows across Australia and New Zealand in a single tour, but we just did it together on the Summer Carnival Tour,’ she continued.

‘We’ve sold over 3.1 million tickets during six tours here – that’s the most career ticket sales ever achieved by an international performer in Australia and New Zealand.

‘I’m not often lost for words, but you really did it to me this week. Your support is never lost on me and it’s a privilege to do this with you every day. From the bottom of my heart, thank you. Here’s to another 20 years together.’ 

Pink has long considered Australia her second home and she previously let slip that she was ‘looking into’ possible citizenship in February 2023.

‘Last year I was thinking about applying for citizenship, I am not even joking,’ she shared on 60 Minutes.

‘I was like, if we are going somewhere, Carey, that’s where we are going. So I was kind of looking into it.’

‘Australia will be such a special time. Setting up their much longed for dream base Down Under where they can escape the wintry months will be just what the doctor ordered,’ an insider added. 

It comes after the singer-songwriter expressed frustration over ‘ageist’ insurance companies who are hesitant to insure her before each tour as she gets older.

Raking in $585 million worldwide, Pink’s Summer Carnival surpassed Beyonce’s Renaissance Tour, which grossed $579.8 million last year

While Pink, 45, currently boasts the highest-grossing female tour ever, she will be officially surpassed by Taylor Swift ‘s The Eras Tour once the numbers are calculated

She told the Daily Telegraph in February, ‘Many times they’ve tried to say no; I told them that they’re ageist.’

‘I told them to look at all these dudes in the NFL who do all this stuff that’s crazy and you insure them, but somebody pointed out there are many of them but just one of me and I can’t be replaced.

‘But still they didn’t have a problem with it when I was 25, and I’m stronger now. I’m in the best shape of my life,’ she explained.

Pink’s last album, Trustfall, was released in 2023. It peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 chart and No. 1 in Australia, Canada, and the UK.