Cardi B wants to tour again this fall after Little Miss Drama Tour grosses $70 million

Cardi B fall tour plans take shape

Cardi B is already thinking about her next run on the road. The Cardi B rapper confirmed during an X Spaces session on May 20 that she wants to launch a second North American leg of her Little Miss Drama Tour this fall, targeting September or October so she can take November, December, and January off. A European leg is not in the immediate picture.

"I do want to go on tour real soon," she said, according to Billboard. "However, motherf-kers gotta come correct. I feel like I showed them how much money I could make and could gross."

She added that she expects to make a final decision within roughly two weeks: "When you sell tickets, you got options. You actually have people fighting for you."

The numbers behind the Little Miss Drama Tour

The Little Miss Drama Tour was a significant commercial event. Billboard Boxscore reported in April that the 35-date North American run grossed more than $70 million and sold 453,000 tickets. Cardi pushed back on anyone framing those numbers as approximate.

"My tour didn't supposedly gross $70 million. It actually did gross $70 million," she said.

She also broke down the financial mechanics. Live Nation advanced her $20 million, and she paid a percentage to her agency and management. On top of that, she used roughly $35 million of her own money to finance the rest of the tour, covering repairs, crew flights, and curfew late fees that ran as high as $50,000 per incident.

The album that launched the run

The tour was built around her sophomore album Am I the Drama?, which arrived in September and debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 with 200,000 total album-equivalent units, per Luminate. For a rapper whose last full-length had a multi-year gap before it, the commercial result settled most of the debate.