A breakdown of Taylor Swift's record-breaking Eras Tour in numbers
This week, the world said goodbye to Taylor Swift's wildly popular Eras Tour.
Over nearly two years, the tour broke numerous attendance and revenue records, saw millions of fans around the world make and swap friendship bracelets, and carried Swift through several major changes in her personal and professional life.
Whether you went to the tour in person or watched from a grainy livestream at home, the Eras Tour has been a global phenomenon that has entertained fans around the world.
Fans tuned in on social media to see what surprise songs the pop star performed, which celebrities were in attendance, and any potential announcements Swift had in store each night.
Now it's finished, with Swift taking her final bow on stage in Vancouver on December 8, it's time to take a look back at the Eras Tour and break down its record-breaking impact in numbers.
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Nine parting words: After 21 months of touring, nine words were all Swift needed to sum up this huge chapter in her life.
Throughout the Eras Tour, Swift would post a series of photos and a message on Instagram after each major stop along the way. Her messages were quite lengthy, reflecting on her experiences and emotions while performing in that country or major city.
But after wrapping up her final show in Vancouver, Swift was unusually succinct.
Sharing a series of photos from the performance, she wrote, "It was rare. I was there. I remember it."
Those are, of course, lyrics from her ballad All Too Well, a cherished fan favourite.
Kicked off the tour on March 17, 2023: March 17, 2023 is a date for the Swiftie history books.
It was the day Swift officially kicked off her record-breaking Eras Tour in Glendale, Arizona, nearly five years after wrapping her last world tour for Reputation in 2018.
It was also the first time fans got to find out which of their favourite songs made the setlist, see all the different costume changes, and experience the magic of Swift's three-and-a-half-hour show - whether it be in person or watching a grainy livestream like many of us around the world.
Already on her opening night, the singer was breaking records.
Her first show at Arizona became the most-attended concert in the US by a female artist, overtaking Madonna with 69,000 people present. What a way to begin a new era!
149 shows played: After the pop star takes the stage for the last time in Vancouver on December 8, 2024, she will have played a staggering 149 shows across 21 months on the Eras Tour.
Swift's tour has travelled across five continents and dozens of cities around the world, including her performances Down Under in Melbourne and City last February.
However, the Cruel Summer singer was initially supposed to play even more shows, with three performances scheduled in Vienna in August 2024, taking her total planned number of shows to 152.
Unfortunately all three shows had to be cancelled after a planned terrorist attack targeting Swift's concert was discovered and foiled.
21 months on tour: The Eras Tour has been Swift's biggest tour to date in her 18-year-long career.
By the time that final piece of confetti rains in Vancouver at the end of her final show on December 8, the singer will have wrapped up 21 months of touring.
Swift's global tour began in the US in March 2023 and has travelled across five continents (Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, South America) with only up to a few weeks between the different tour legs.
Largest crowd of 96,000: The Eras Tour saw Swift break a personal career record, performing to her largest crowd ever at the MCG in Melbourne.
The singer played three sold-out shows at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on February 16, 17 and 18, with a staggering 96,000 fans in attendance at each show.
Across three shows, Swift performed to 288,000 people – and that number didn't even include the thousands who listened to her show outside.
"If I seem a little bit like I'm losing my mind over the fact that there are 96,000 people here tonight … it's because it's true," she told the crowd during her first night in Melbourne.
"This is the biggest show that we've ever done."
15 backup dancers: On stage with Swift and dancing along to her biggest career hits are 15 backup dancers.
The dancers rotate across the different eras in different costumes. Some even have special bits in the show.
One of Swift's dancers, Kameron Sanders, has gone viral for his solo dances during Bejeweled and for his different phrases during We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together, which he comes up with for each show to be special for the country.
For example, at the Sydney night two show he yelled out, "Tell him he's dreaming", a reference to the Aussie film classic The Castle.
In addition to her 15 backup dancers, Swift has four backup singers and a six-piece band, made up of her longtime guitarists Amos Heller and Paul Sidoti, who have been there since the start of her career.
Three album announcements: At the beginning of the Eras Tour, Swift had 10 albums out. She had also released two of her re-recorded albums for Fearless and Red.
She was already singing songs from each of those albums across her three-and-a-half hour show every night (excluding her self-titled debut album).
But while on the road, Swift dropped three albums for fans with entirely new songs she incorporated into the setlist and surprise song segment of the concert.
During her Nashville show on May 5 2023, the singer shocked fans by revealing the new cover and announcing a release date for her re-mastered album, Speak Now.
The new album came out July 7 and brought us six new tracks including I Can See You, which starred Swift's ex Taylor Lautner and Joey King in the music video.
"I love this album because it tells a tale of growing up, flailing, flying and crashing… and living to speak about it," Swift wrote on X.
Then on August 9, 2023, at her final Los Angeles show, the pop star announced mid-concert her next re-recorded album 1989 would drop on October 27.
The singer had teased the announcement for the whole show, wearing blue versions in place of her usual tour outfits, which is the colour of her 1989 era.
Her third album drop was announced at the 2024 Grammy Awards. During her acceptance speech, Swift revealed she had a brand new 11th studio album called The Tortured Poets Department.
After the album dropped on April 19, 2024, Swift incorporated a whole new segment for the album in her show, which debuted at her first European show of the tour in Paris.
Travis Kelce attended 15 times: The Eras Tour also marked a change in Swift's personal life - she began a new relationship with NFL star Travis Kelce.
Kelce famously first attended Swift's second show at Kansas' Arrowhead Stadium on July 8, 2023. Then on his podcast New Heights, he told his brother Jason he had tried to give Swift a friendship bracelet with his number on it.
Then in September 2023, the couple hard-launched they were dating with Swift attending one of his Kansas City Chiefs NFL games.
After going public with their relationship, Kelce returned to the Eras Tour for his first official show as Swift's boyfriend in Buenos Aires on November 11, 2023.
That was the first night Swift famously changed the lyrics of her song Karma from "karma is the guy on the screen" to "karma is the guy on the Chiefs", a tradition she kept up for the rest of the Eras Tour only when Kelce was in attendance at her shows.
Since that show, Kelce has attended Sydney night one, Singapore nights five and six, Paris night four, three back-to-back shows in London, Dublin night three, Amsterdam nights two and three, Gelsenkirchen nights one and two, and Indianapolis night two.
Kelce also famously made his on stage debut at Swift's third show at Wembley Stadium on June 23, 2024, becoming the first ever of the singer's boyfriends to join her mid-show.
Eras Tour performance caused a 2.3 magnitude earthquake: Fans at Taylor Swift's Seattle concerts got so into the show, they quite literally made the ground shake.
According to CNN, fans at the Lumen Field performances on July 22 and 23 caused seismic activity equivalent to a 2.3 magnitude earthquake
Swift's concerts beat the previous record in Seattle held by fans celebrating a touchdown during a 2011 NFL game.
Seismologist Jackie Caplan-Auerbach told CNN the "shaking was twice as strong" at the Eras Tour shows.
"For Taylor Swift, I collected about 10 hours of data where rhythm controlled the behaviour. The music, the speakers, the beat. All that energy can drive into the ground and shake it," she explained.
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