On Saturday (April 18), Cardi B played the last of 35 shows on the Little Miss Drama Tour. According to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore, the North American arena trek grossed more than $70 million and sold 453,000 tickets – well worth the wait for her first concerts in seven years. The Little Miss Drama Tour follows Cardi’s sophomore album, Am I The Drama?, which arrived in September 2025, seven years after her Grammy-winning Invasion of Privacy.
Like its predecessor, it topped the Billboard 200 and landed a bevy of Billboard Hot 100 entries, including 14 debuts on the Oct. 4-dated chart. The seven-year gap between albums is mirrored in her touring history. She last headlined arenas in 2019, scattered throughout the year alongside festival performances.
Those dates averaged $1.1 million and more than 11,000 tickets per show. The Little Miss Drama Tour nearly doubled the pace with $2 million each night, playing approximately triple the number of shows. The Little Miss Drama Tour follows a wave of tours by female rappers escalating to arenas.
In 2024, four of the top 10 rap tours were by women, three of which were the act’s first solo arena trek: Doja Cat, Megan Thee Stallion, and with similarly long-awaited anticipation, Missy Elliott. Out of This World: The Missy Elliott Experience Tour grossed $41.8 million over 29 shows, bringing Misdemeanor to arenas, on her own, for the first time in her 30-year career. Elliott was a proven hitmaker and innovator throughout the 1990s and ‘00s, eventually inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2023, eight months before launching her first solo headline arena tour.
Twenty years prior, she co-headlined The Verizon Ladies First Tour alongside Beyoncé and Alicia Keys ($21.8 million). Though Missy’s rap career predates Cardi B’s by a couple of decades, their comeback tours both landed long after establishing themselves as dominant figures in hip-hop. Cardi notched her first No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2017 (“Bodak Yellow”), her third a year later, and her fifth in 2021.
It’s rare for an artist to wait to stage a headline tour this extensive until five years after logging a handful of crossover No. 1 hits. Cardi played 35 shows in 32 cities across North America. Highlights were three double-headers, going back-to-back in Los Angeles (Kia Forum in Inglewood, Calif.), New York (Madison Square Garden), and closing shows in Atlanta (State Farm Arena). The MSG shows on March 25-26 top them all, with $5.3 million and 26,200 tickets sold.