Taylor Swift’s “Eras Tour” is record-breaking. Here are some impressive numbers and facts.
Taylor Swift, 34, is one of the most influential artists of today. For over a year, the singer has been on her “Eras Tour,” marking her sixth concert series. The tour began on March 17, 2023, in Glendale, Arizona, and will arrive in Germany on July 17. Here are the key numbers and facts.
The show lasts over 3.5 hours, with a setlist of 44 to 46 songs, making it Swift’s longest show since the start of her career. She performs songs from all her albums, including an acoustic set where she plays a surprise song on the piano and another on the guitar. Especially during the European leg of her tour, Swift has started combining multiple songs and performing mash-ups. She has played over 300 surprise songs during the “Eras Tour.”
There’s More to It
Such a show involves enormous effort. The equipment is transported in over 90 trucks. The setup includes three separate stages connected by a wide ramp. A total of 15 backup dancers are involved. Swift receives musical support from a live band of six members and four additional background singers.
The “Eras Tour” is often described as a fashion show, as the pop icon’s wardrobe plays a significant role. Within the 3.5-hour performance, Swift changes outfits about 16 times. Throughout the entire “Eras Tour,” Swift has worn 84 different costumes. These pieces are well-thought-out and often specially made for Swift. She wears a sequined tulle ball gown, custom-designed for her, which took over 350 hours of handwork in an atelier to create. For the performance of her album “Midnight,” she wears a fringed bodysuit hand-embellished with more than 5,300 pearls and crystals.
What Happens Alongside the Tour?
As if a tour of this magnitude isn’t enough, Swift has released a total of 44 new songs during the shows. In July 2023, she released the re-recorded version of her album “Speak Now” with six previously unreleased songs. Just four months later, Swift released the re-recorded version of her album “1989,” which included another six previously unheard tracks. In late November 2023, she surprised fans with the song “You’re Losing Me (From the Vault).” In April 2024, she released the double album “The Tortured Poets Department,” featuring 31 new songs.
Breaking Records
The most impressive record broken by the “Eras Tour”: it is the first tour to surpass one billion dollars in revenue. This makes it the highest-grossing tour of all time, and Swift became the first billionaire in history with music as her primary source of income. By the end of 2024, the tour is projected to have grossed a total of 2.165 billion US dollars. On the first day of presales in the USA alone, over 2.4 million tickets were ordered, more than any artist has ever sold in a single day.
In Melbourne, Swift set another record in February this year. Over three nights in the Australian metropolis, a total of 288,000 fans attended her shows, averaging 96,000 fans per night. Similar numbers were reached by Swift’s tour in late June in London, where she and her fans spent three nights at Wembley Stadium, with 90,000 visitors per night.
Swift in Germany
In Germany, the singer will play a total of seven shows, including three in Gelsenkirchen and two each in Hamburg and Munich.
The last concert of the “Eras Tour” will take place on December 8, 2024, in Vancouver. By then, Swift will have performed a total of 152 shows in 54 different cities across five continents.
