celeb news NYT: The Eras Tour finishes with $2.08B & 10.1M tickets after 149 shows [OFFICIAL]

[Feanor]

 

Taylor Swift's Eras Tour Grand Total: A Record $2 Billion

 

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Through its 149th and final show, which took place in Vancouver, British Columbia, on Sunday, Swift's tour sold a total of $2,077,618,725 in tickets. That's two billion and change — double the gross ticket sales of any other concert tour in history and an extraordinary new benchmark for a white-hot international concert business.

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Those figures were confirmed to The New York Times for the first time by Taylor Swift Touring, the singer's production company.

While the financial details of the Eras Tour have been a subject of constant industry speculation since tickets were first offered more than two years ago — through a presale so in-demand it crashed Ticketmaster's system — Swift has never authorized disclosure of the tour's numbers until now.

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Every date on the Eras Tour was sold out, and spare tickets were scalped at eye-popping prices — or traded within the protective Swiftie fan community, often at face value. According to Swift's touring company, a total of 10,168,008 people attended the concerts, which means that, on average, each seat went for about $204.

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The biggest single night's attendance was in Melbourne, Australia, on Feb. 16, 2024, with 96,006. And Swift's eight nights at Wembley Stadium in London, which she played more than any other venue, drew 753,112 people — about as many as live in Seattle.

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Beyond its numbers, the Eras Tour has been a mega-event that elevated the already-super-famous Swift to a new level, making her an epochal symbol of cultural saturation on the level of the Beatles in the 1960s or Michael Jackson in his '80s prime. Swift's every onstage utterance, outfit swap or offstage sighting was thoroughly documented, on social media and in the mainstream press, with news outlets big and small rushing to capture Swifties' clicks. Online, fans tracked every tweak to the three-hour-plus set lists.

The New York Times

 

 

 

Edited Monday at 10:51 AM by Feanor

[Klein]

Long Live to The Eras Tour 

 

EDIT: if someone has access to the full article, I would love a gift in my DMs. Would love to read it in full.

Edited Monday at 10:30 AM by Klein

[Dear Reader]

Insane mega event 

 

So much for "no cultural impact" 

[itsnickcray]

5 minutes ago, Dear Reader said:

Insane mega event 

 

So much for "no cultural impact" 

What is cultural about ticket sales?

 

OT; Congrats, insane numbers

[Hurem]

6 minutes ago, Dear Reader said:

So much for "no cultural impact" 

Why do y'all need the validation so bad

[Loca]

Disgusting that someone's accumulating so much wealth, regardless of the percentage she is receiving.

[Hunter_13]

What a ride! 

 

So proud of Taylor! 

 

 

[Eternal220]

Legend 

Don't think these numbers will be surpassed anytime soon.

[Dear Reader]

3 minutes ago, Hurem said:

Why do y'all need the validation so bad

Why do y'all need to diminish Taylor's accomplishments all the time as well?

 

5 minutes ago, itsnickcray said:

What is cultural about ticket sales?

 

OT; Congrats, insane numbers

I'm going to assume you don't know what cultural impact is and will let you search a bit. 

[Rep2000]

4 minutes ago, Loca said:

Disgusting that someone's accumulating so much wealth, regardless of the percentage she is receiving.

Jobless behavior right here. Go get a life, a job or a patch of grass to touch or sth.

Edited Monday at 10:40 AM by Rep2000

[IBeMe]

If she didn't have that terrorist threat which lead to her cancelling those Vienna shows she'd be at 2.1b 

 

lol jk! Congrats queen

[MidnightsAtPeace]

The biggest tour in the history of music, one of the biggest musical events of the 21st century 

Long live The Eras Tour 

[enchanted0]

we finally got the full numbers  lovely.

 

anyway I don't think any words needed, she became an untouchable legend, incomparable to anyone else through this tour. Can't wait to attend the next tour  

[MardinBeksloy]

This is insane  

[Starfish]

Imagine if she could dance and had Twitter vibes 

[Klein]

Just realized this tour alone would make her what? The 3rd highest grossing artist of all time? 

[Squall]

15 minutes ago, Loca said:

Disgusting that someone's accumulating so much wealth, regardless of the percentage she is receiving.

She boosted economies all over the world in a way you will never

 

 

[dussel_06]

The biggest artist to ever graced this earth. I'm so proud of her. 

[slightx2]

QUEEN

[DevilsRollTheDice]

This is INCREDIBLE and UNPRECEDENTED and it will make so many on here seethe and suffer for days 

[JasonGosling]

OMG. I was one of those who went to her show in Wembley, London. Great that we made history there.

[Capris Groove]

Unreal. A totally historic music event.

 

I'm not a Swiftie but I do like a lot of her music and went to her show a couple nights ago. You get the sense that she is genuinely humbled by all of this, and she clearly worked her ass off on this tour. She deserves it.

[Sawk]

The SMASHERY   

[JawBreaker]

Can someone assure me that Coldplay or Ed or any other men that tours for centuries will never surpass this?

 

Hopefully she's far away where they can't catch up 

[SupremeGoddess]

oh let me quickly stan her a bit omg queen i love red

 

can you give me like just 0,20% of that for my expenses or something