I don't know if you know how to read but it clearly says worldwide tour, Gaga was only doing shows in North America, and if you'd bother to look at the second list she has the same gross as the WW one. But you probably avoid that one since Katy is nowhere to be seen.
That's because Katy didn't start touring in North America until June 22, which is 8 days before the mid-year deadline
Artists always count all tour stops, including festivals, so why would you suddenly decide that Selena doesn't deserve recognition for it? Tickets were purchased to the Stars Dance Tour at the Houston Rodeo. No need to get so angry about her success!
That's cute.
Houston Rodeo doesn't count and she still has the least gross of them all. Let's move on.
It mentions that they counted 15 dates for Katy too
You guys aren't getting it. They counted Gaga's Roseland shows instead of the end of June's arena boxscores. It hasn't been added yet becuase Pollstar or Billboard hasn't received them yet.
So it's 229,1 for TMCSWT according to Pollstar who shows slightly lower grosses for Beyoncé than Billboard.
She stays comfortably at #4 highest grossing tours of all time
They have her at $5.9m from 6 US shows, when Billboard reported $7.85 from 5 shows (with the 6th show it should be at least $9m) so her total is (at least) $25.1m from 22 shows