Of 68 prior editions of Billboard’s monthly Top Tours chart, only 14, or less than 21%, were led by solo women. Of the 23 unique acts who topped that list, just four, or 17%, were solo women. Luckily those percentages see a small but mighty uptick with the reveal of the March 2026 rankings as Lady Gaga ascends to the summit, while Cardi B takes the runner-up slot.
According to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore, Gaga’s The Mayhem Ball earned $45.6 million and sold 154,000 tickets across 12 shows in March, making it the month’s highest-grossing trek.
March marks Gaga’s first month at No. 1 on Top Tours, after getting closer and closer since the chart launched. She rounded out the inaugural chart at No. 30 in February 2019. Then, she grazed the top 10, at No. 10, four times between 2019-22. While on 2022’s The Chromatica Ball, she hit single digits, cracking the top five in August of that year. Since touring behind Mayhem, she’s been in the top 10 for ten of the last 12 months, spending the last six in the top five including back-to-back stints in the runner-up position in December and January.
Topping the list with some of the tour’s final shows (The Mayhem Ball wrapped on April 13), Gaga’s persistence paid off. She becomes one of only five solo women to crown the Top Tours chart, following P!nk (four times), Spice Girls (one), Beyoncé (seven), and Shakira (two). (The monthly ranking started in February 2019).
Among all acts, Gaga is the second in the last year to top the list for the first time. Among repeat offenders like Bad Bunny, Paul McCartney, and Ed Sheeran, only she and Chris Brown were new at No. 1.
Gaga follows Sheeran, who led the February chart. Perhaps surprisingly, it is extremely rare for pop artists to go back-to-back at No. 1. This is the first instance of such a double-header in almost seven years, since Spice Girls and P!nk were tops in June and July of 2019. P!nk and Sheeran had also done it in March and April of that year.
In another rarity, Gaga tops the chart in arenas, which has only happened in one third of the 69 monthly charts. It’s becoming increasingly rare – in the last 15 months, it’s only happened twice, with Gaga joining Paul McCartney, who was No. 1 in November 2025. Even in recent winter months, Bad Bunny and Sheeran have gone global, with winning stadium legs in South America and Australia, respectively.
Gaga’s March schedule mainly covered the east coast of the United States, starting in Atlanta and Miami and going north to Washington, D.C., New York, and Boston. As it was in August during The Mayhem Ball’s first leg, New York was the highest-grossing market with $9.1 million and 27,300 tickets sold on March 23-24. She returned one last time to close the tour out on April 13.
All told, The Mayhem Ball grossed $362.9 million and sold more than 1.6 million tickets. Including extra shows Gaga played in Mexico City and Singapore before the trek’s proper kickoff, she earned $419.5 million and sold just under two million tickets across 12 months of touring. It’s her biggest tour yet and ends as one of the 10 highest-grossing pop tours in Boxscore history, as well as one of the 10 highest-grossing tours by women.
Gaga’s month on top is rare in terms of her genre, her gender, and her venue choices but she pulls off another historic feat in great company. By blocking Nos. 1-2, Gaga and Cardi B are only the second pair of solo women to take the top two spots, and first to do so since 2023.
Beyoncé and P!nk, both chart-toppers in their own right, led the chart together in August 2023, with the former in the middle of the Renaissance World Tour, and the latter amid her own Summer Carnival. Those two treks remain the highest-grossing tours by women in Boxscore history, not accounting for Taylor Swift’s unreported The Eras Tour.
Cardi B’s Little Miss Drama Tour grossed $32.8 million and sold 210,000 tickets over 16 shows in February. The trek began in February and ended just days after The Mayhem Ball, ultimately grossing $70 million from 453,000 tickets sold across 35 dates. She is the fifth rapper, and first female rapper, to rank as high on the monthly listing.
Peso Pluma is No. 3 on Top Tour with $29.3 million and 218,000 tickets sold. Across 17 shows, he has the month’s best-selling tour, narrowly besting Cardi B by a margin of less than 4%. The Dinastía Tour, with Tito Double P, continues tonight at Madison Square Garden, and wraps on May 9 at Chicago’s United Center.
Another three artists crossed the $20 million threshold in March, representing different genres and continents. South Korea’s SEVENTEEN is No. 4 with $27.3 million from Asian stadiums. German composer Hans Zimmer is right behind with $26.1 million from 17 shows in European arenas. And California rock band Linkin Park is next with $21.9 million with seven shows in Australia and New Zealand.
The Top Boxscores chart further diversifies these global rankings, swept by Latin American festivals. Mexican promoter OCESA takes the top three spots, with Monterrey’s Tecate Pal Norte, Bogota’s Festival Estereo Picnic, and Mexico City’s Vive Latino Festival. They combined for almost $45 million, making up more than half of the company’s $76.1 monthly take.
