Boxoffice Insider: Cardi B’s Little Miss Drama Tour Grosses $32M Midway Through Run

Cardi B has grossed over $32 million on her “Little Miss Drama Tour” with half of the 35 shows on the North American arena trek now completed. Based on reported ticket sales figures at the midpoint of the tour, she has sold a total of 209,622 tickets at the first 17 shows since launching the tour on Feb. 11 at Acrisure Arena in Palm Desert, California.

Supporting her second studio album Am I the Drama?, released on Atlantic Records last September, the eight-week tour is the longest full-fledged headlining arena tour during her career, although she previously played her first arena dates as a headliner in 2019. But the bulk of her concert appearances on record in the Pollstar archives have been at festivals around the globe, along with radio-sponsored concerts and other multiple-artist events.

So far on the current tour, attendance has averaged about 12,330 per show, but her largest crowd for a single performance was 13,839 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on Feb. 13. It was the second show scheduled on the tour. Three other venues also topped 13,000 in attendance for one show with Little Caesars Arena in Detroit logging 13,506 sold tickets on March 15 and Seattle’s Climate Pledge Arena hosting 13,446 fans on Feb. 22. And on March 7, American Airlines Center in Dallas sold a total of 13,036 tickets.

After the first two shows in the Palm Springs and Las Vegas markets, Cardi B headed to Los Angeles for the only two-show engagement during the first half of the tour. She played back-to-back concerts at Kia Forum in Inglewood, Feb. 15-16, with attendance for both nights reaching 25,145. She made headlines at the event as tour producer Live Nation announced that she is the first female rapper ever to sell out two concerts at the Forum.

Two more arenas are booked with back-to-back performances during the upcoming second half of the tour. Madison Square Garden in New York City will host the “Little Miss Drama Tour” on March 25 and 26. Then, the finale of the tour at State Farm Arena in Atlanta will also be a two-night event with concerts on April 17 and 18.

She will also be making a late-night club appearance during the second half of the tour. After performing at Xfinity Mobile Arena in Philadelphia on April 7, she is scheduled to play a late show that same evening at the NOTO Philadelphia nightclub.

Cardi B first appeared on the Pollstar charts in 2016 with a performance on May 27 at the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C. It was a sellout with a crowd of 1,200 in attendance. After numerous appearances on concert stages during the following two years, her stint as an arena headliner in 2019 began in May of that year. She played Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines, Iowa on May 3, supported by Kodak Black, selling 12,314 tickets at the sold-out performance. She also performed for 12,369 fans at a concert on Mother’s Day, May 12, at Columbia, South Carolina’s Colonial Life Arena.

During the summer of 2019, she headlined a string of six U.S. arena shows in July, set primarily in midwestern cities. They were scheduled between her appearances at festivals in both Europe and North America. Then, at the end of that summer, she also played two rescheduled amphitheater dates in New York cities, originally planned to be part of her May concert run.