AceShowbiz - The final show of Cardi B’s Little Miss Drama Tour took place on Saturday, April 18, concluding a spectacular 35-date journey across North America. According to data reported to Billboard Boxscore, the tour generated an impressive total gross of more than $70 million, with 453,000 tickets sold. This achievement marked a triumphant return for Cardi B, who had not embarked on a full arena headlining tour in seven years.

The Little Miss Drama Tour was launched in support of Cardi B’s second studio album, Am I The Drama?, which was released in September 2025. This album arrived seven years after her critically acclaimed, Grammy-winning debut, Invasion of Privacy. Much like its predecessor, the new album dominated the charts by debuting at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and spawning multiple hits on the Billboard Hot 100, including 14 new entries on the chart dated October 4.

The tour’s success is especially notable given the seven-year gap not only between albums but also in Cardi B’s touring schedule. Her last major arena headlining shows were in 2019, performed alongside various festival appearances. Those 2019 dates averaged $1.1 million in revenue and over 11,000 tickets sold per show. The Little Miss Drama Tour nearly doubled those figures, averaging around $2 million per night while tripling the number of performances.

This tour is part of a larger trend of female rappers expanding their presence in arenas. In 2024, four of the top 10 rap tours were led by women, with three—Doja Cat, Megan Thee Stallion, and Missy Elliott—making their debut arena solo tours. Missy Elliott’s Out of This World: The Missy Elliott Experience Tour grossed $41.8 million across 29 shows, marking her first solo arena tour in her three-decade music career. Elliott, a celebrated innovator and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, had previously co-headlined the Verizon Ladies First Tour alongside Beyoncé and Alicia Keys, which grossed $21.8 million.

While Missy Elliott’s rap career predates Cardi B’s by decades, both artists staged their comeback tours well after cementing themselves as hip-hop icons. Cardi B achieved her first Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 with “Bodak Yellow” in 2017, followed by two more chart-toppers in 2018 and another in 2021. It is unusual for an artist to wait five years after multiple No. 1 hits to embark on such a large-scale headline arena tour.

The tour covered 32 cities across North America, with 35 shows in total. Key highlights included three back-to-back double-header performances in major markets: Los Angeles at the Kia Forum in Inglewood, New York at Madison Square Garden, and the closing shows in Atlanta’s State Farm Arena. The Madison Square Garden shows on March 25 and 26 were the tour’s most lucrative, grossing $5.3 million and selling 26,200 tickets.

Cardi B’s Little Miss Drama Tour has not only demonstrated her lasting appeal but also underscored the rising power of female rappers in the live concert arena. The scale and financial success of the tour highlight a significant evolution in hip-hop touring, as well as the growing demand for headlining performances by women in the genre.