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The $84M reason to stay together

Beyoncé and Jay Z might be headed for a split, but hip-hop’s royal couple has an $84 million reason to stay together for now.

That’s how much their “On the Run” summer concert tour is paying them, Page Six has learned.

With breakup rumors swirling, the duo is rocking through a 21-stadium tour, and music industry sources tell us they’re being paid $4 million per gig, guaranteed and independent of ticket sales — totaling $84 million for the couple to share.

Meantime, their tour is expected to bring in more than $100 million in ticket sales. By comparison, the Rolling Stones raked in $126 million from 23 shows last year in what was the sixth-highest-grossing tour of 2013.

The Post reported that Beyoncé was shopping for a $21.5 million apartment in Chelsea without her husband last month, but the asking price will be chump change once her tour with Jay Z ends Sept. 13.

They’re scheduled to play Seattle on Wednesday. Some stops on the tour are expected to hit $5 million in sales.

Buzz over a possible split between Bey and Jay began after the rapper got into an epic, embarrassing elevator fight at the Standard High Line with Beyoncé’s little sister Solange in May.

Rumors swirled that the fight might have kicked off because Solange thought Jay had strayed.

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On Monday, The Post reported Beyoncé was secretly looking at a 4,045-square-foot apartment on West 19th Street without Jay Z.

Ironically, word of their marital strife seems to be fueling interest in the couple’s current tour.

Chicago critic Greg Kot wrote after a July 24 Soldier Field show in front of 60,000: “Maybe it’s all just a plot hatched by Beyoncé and Jay Z to keep the media’s ongoing fascination with their lives and careers at a fever pitch.”

The couple will wrap up their tour with two shows in Paris’ Stade de France, which seats more than 81,300. So they’ll presumably be motivated to stay together ’til late summer.

Reps for the couple didn’t get back to us.