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her epic Eras Tour at BC Place stadium in Vancouver, Canada, this weekend.As the 34-year-old pop superstar gets set to kick off the final three shows on Friday night before the curtain closes on Sunday, we look back on the 13 best moments from the highest-grossing tour of all time in honor of her lucky number.Twenty-one months ago, Swift opened the Eras Tour on March 17, 2023, at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Ariz. “I’m gonna take a wild guess and say that if you’re here tonight, there’s a pretty good chance that you went through a considerable amount of effort to be with us tonight,” she told the crowd, acknowledging how difficult it was for some fans to get tickets.

Taylor Swift will bring her historic Eras Tour to a close this weekend at BC Place stadium in Vancouver, Canada.Changing the concert business — and changing the culture period — the blockbuster trek will go down as the highest-grossing tour of all time, becoming the first to haul in over $1 billion.“From attendance to size, it just kind of captured the imagination of the world for two years,” said Dave Brooks, Billboard senior director of live music and touring. “There’s really nothing [like it] that we’ve ever seen before.”In fact, Brooks credits the Eras Tour with helping to “restart the economy” after the pandemic.“It had a huge impact — from hotels to transportation to restaurants,” he said.

Dolly Parton is working 9 to 5 to cast her musical.The singer, 78; her manager, Danny Nozell; and ATG Productions announced on Thursday that “Dolly: An Original Musical” has launched a nationwide casting search. The Broadway show, previously titled “Hello, I’m Dolly,” will follow Parton’s life and career over the decades.The star explained the open casting call and audition process in a video posted to TikTok, Instagram and YouTube.“I want to give you the chance to help me bring my story to Broadway — and maybe even play me!” Parton said, encouraging hopefuls to try out for the musical.“This show is a celebration of my music, my life and all the amazing people who’ve been with me along the way,” she continued.

hit a “spiritual bottom” and stopped smoking, drinking and doing drugs.“I knew that if I had carried on, I probably would lose my family — and everything,” Carlisle told People. “I knew that if I continued I would die.”At the time, the “Heaven Is a Place on Earth” artist “was sick of living a life of secrets and lies” and was “ready” to clean up.

The Voice. As a contestant on the current 26th season of the reality series, J.Paul has been granted broad national exposure to the show’s millions of viewers, who have seen him give several performances showcasing his stunning and sturdy soprano-rooted, multi-octave vocal spread.

Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade last week — in the pouring rain. “My toes are frozen, but I was thankful to perform,” she told The Post.And now, she’ll be singing tunes from her new Christmas EP “Coco by the Fireplace” at the Rockefeller Center tree lighting ceremony Wednesday alongside host Kelly Clarkson and a star-studded lineup, including Jennifer Hudson, the Backstreet Boys, Little Big Town, Dan + Shay, British breakout Raye and more.No doubt, she’s living out the dreams of a little girl who wore out one very special Christmas gift.“One of my younger Christmas gifts was a Barbie karaoke machine,” recalled Jones, 26.

Matteo Bocelli has no issues following in the grande footsteps of his father Andrea Bocelli, the beloved Italian tenor.“I’m proud to be a Bocelli, I’m proud of what my father has achieved in his career,” Bocelli, 27, told The Post. “I feel extremely lucky to have a very strong passion for music, and that’s what basically doesn’t let me really think of being ‘the son of.’ Because if you’re doing something that makes you happy and it satisfies you, you don’t really think of the negative aspects.”And Bocelli is happy to inherit some of his 66-year-old father’s fans with his debut solo album “Matteo” and his “A Night with Matteo” tour that hits Manhattan’s Town Hall on Monday.“I do know that the largest part of my fan base now, it comes from my father,” he admitted.

went viral on TikTok and Musgrave’s supporters expressed their outrage in the comments.“I hate seeing how quickly they stole the smile off her face :( who does that?” one fan wrote.“Even if they aren’t famous, why are we touching other people especially pulling on them,” another person said.A third comment read, “Normalize these artists/celebrities defending themselves and watch it stop…cause when they actually react the ones in the wrong in the eyes of the public is the celebrity.”“Some fans do this a lot, and it ruins it for the rest of us,” a different fan wrote.Musgraves later addressed the incident at her Hollywood, Fl. show the next night.“Last night, this Tampa b***h,” she said on stage as the audience laughed and then booed.

Diane Keaton’s new holiday single “First Christmas.”Putting the “Black” in “Black Friday,” the yuletide tearjerker is much more mopey than merry, sucking all of the holiday spirit out of you.And with Keaton’s painful performance — it’s the cringe that stole Christmas — the whole thing is just sad in every way.Why this acting legend, at 78, felt that this was the gift that we needed to start the season, we’ll never know.This bummer of a ballad, drearily drenched in strings, is about spending your “First Christmas” without the one you love.“Hearing ‘I’ll Be Home for Christmas’/It only makes me miss him/When you love someone for so, so long/Yet they’re not coming home,” warbles Keaton, tentatively talk-singing through it.And when it comes time to pour on the melodrama in the chorus, her limp vocals fall flat right along with the tired lyrics: “The snow falls on my window/I wish that I could let go/It’s a silent night/It’s another year/The first Christmas without you here.”“First Christmas” was co-written by Carole Bayer Sager, who has penned songs for everyone from Barbra Streisand and Dionne Warwick to Diana Ross and Michael Jackson.But Keaton isn’t anywhere near that club.At this point in her career, though, the Oscar winner for 1977’s “Annie Hall” can do whatever stuffs her stocking.“I CAN’T BELIEVE IT’S FINALLY HERE!” Keaton gushed on Instagram last week. “MY DEBUT HOLIDAY SINGLE, ‘FIRST CHRISTMAS,’ IS COMING OUT FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29TH.”Alongside the single cover where she is rocking one of her trademark turtlenecks, she added, “SO EXCITED TO SHARE THIS SONG WITH YOU ALL.”Indeed, her longtime Christmas wish is finally coming true with this project.

frontman Scott Stapp was in a different kind of fatherly feels.“I brought my son Jagger out, and I’ll never forget bringing him out as a little boy onstage,” Stapp, 51, told The Post. “And you know, the whole thing ‘If you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere’ …. I got to share that memory with my little boy.”Twenty four years after that father-son bonding moment, Stapp and Creed are finally making their way back to the Garden on their “Are You Ready?” reunion tour that hits MSG on Friday night.And the singer is rocking it as a grandfather this time.

Bob Geldof — the mastermind behind the all-star charity single — realized that one A-lister was MIA: Culture Club frontman Boy George.“I called him [and] I said, ‘Where are you, man?’” Geldof, 73, told The Post. “And he said, ‘Oh, I’m in bed.

Katy Perry just announced the Canadian leg of her forthcoming ‘Lifetimes Tour,’ which is set to take place in July and August 2025.Notable stops on the Great North run include Vancouver (July 22), Edmonton (July 24), Montreal (July 30), Quebec City (Aug. 1) and Toronto (Aug.

vision problems.The EGOT winner, 77, revealed in an interview with Robin Roberts on “Good Morning America” on Monday that he can’t see out of his right eye after developing an infection over the summer, which has affected his ability to make new music.“It’s been a while since I’ve done anything. I just have to get off my backside,” John said.“I unfortunately lost my eye sight in my right eye in July because I had an infection in the South of France,” the music superstar continued. “It’s been four months now since I haven’t been able to see.

Val Kilmer was one of the only celebrities who had ever broken up with her.During an appearance on SiriusXM’s “The Howard Stern Show” this week, the legendary singer opened up about her past romances, when Stern had asked if any of her exes had ever left her.“Few men, few men,” she responded. “Look, I was madly in love with Val Kilmer and he left.”The singer dated the “Top Secret” actor from 1982 to 1984.

Il Volo is headed to the United States.Starting in February 2025, Piero Barone, Ignazio Boschetto, and Gianluca Ginoble will take their soaring operatic pop to venues all over the U.S. and Canada on the North American leg of their ongoing world tour.Along the way, the trio is slated to drop into New York’s Radio City Music Hall on Friday, March 21 and Atlantic City’s Hard Rock Hotel and Casino on Saturday, March 22.At all shows, the 2015 Eurovision televote winners will likely play the hits as well as tracks from their recently-released album “Ad Astra,” their first record to feature original tracks (excluding a cover of Queen’s “Who Wants To Live Forever”).“We thought the time had come to sing original songs,” Ginoble told Billboard back in April.

Bonnie Raitt is returning to the road.The rootsy 75-year-old singer just announced her spring 2025 tour that will send her to theaters, casinos, auditoriums, concert halls, performing arts centers, amphitheaters and festivals all over North America from March through May.That includes a stop at Atlantic City’s Borgata Casino Event Center on Saturday, April 19.Midway through the nationwide run, she’ll also headline at the annual MerleFest in Wilkesboro, NC on April 24-27 and the Sun Sand and Soul Music Festival in Miramar Beach, FL from May 1-3.Raitt isn’t promoting a new album this time around; her most recent release was 2022’s “Just Like That” which took home three Grammy Awards.“What’s different this time is that I’ve tried some styles and topics I haven’t touched on before,” the 2000 Rock Hall of Fame inductee said about the record.Fans can purchase tickets for all upcoming Bonnie Raitt shows on sites like Vivid Seats; the official on-sale for the newly announced tour dates is Friday, Nov. 22.Vivid Seats is a secondary market ticketing platform, and prices may be higher or lower than face value, depending on demand.They have a 100% buyer guarantee that states your transaction will be safe and secure and will be delivered before the event.A complete calendar including all tour dates, venues and links to buy tickets can be found below.The gifted singer and guitarist will lend her talents to a pair of festivals next year.To make sure you’re in the loop about both of them — from venues to fellow headliners — here’s everything you need to know.Most recently, Raitt headlined at Charlotte’s Ovens Auditorium on Nov.

Christine McVie and Stevie Nicks in Fleetwood Mac.Indeed, the two Fleetwood Mac songbirds forged an instant bond when Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham joined the group alongside McVie, her then-husband John McVie and Mick Fleetwood in 1974.But first, Nicks had to pass a chemistry test with McVie at a New Year’s dinner at the Mexican restaurant El Carmen in Los Angeles that Fleetwood arranged.According to Lesley-Ann Jones’ new biography “Songbird: An Intimate Biography of Christine McVie, the Black Magic Woman” instantly clicked with her future bandmate over tacos and tequila.“It was critical that I got on with [Stevie],” McVie says in “Songbird.” “Because I’d never played with another girl. But I liked her instantly.

Georgia Holt, discovered that her underage daughter was shacking up with Sonny Bono.The new Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee — born Cheryl Sarkisian — was just 16 when she met a then-27-year-old Bono at a coffee shop. But before the iconic duo went on to chart-topping success with “I Got You Babe” in 1965, she was more of a baby at the time.“I lied,” Cher, 78, admitted in an interview with Anthony Mason on “CBS Sunday Morning” to promote “Cher: The Memoir,” out Tuesday, Nov. 19.

year of the diva.And two of the biggest female pop stars of the ’90s — Mary J. Blige and Gwen Stefani — are still keeping it relevant three decades after they first rocked the music world.Blige, 53, and Stefani, 55, are at the age when even the most indomitable divas — from Madonna and Janet Jackson to Jennifer Lopez — are in decline from their chart-topping heights and creative peaks.

Tate McRae is putting the pedal to the metal.Fresh off a nationwide tour and recently-announced Jingle Ball headlining spots, the 21-year-old pop star announced she’s releasing her third studio album “So Close To What” on Feb. 21 and is taking off on her arena ‘Miss Possessive Tour’ next August with special guests Zara Larsson and Benee on select dates.Late into the nationwide trek, the “greedy” singer is scheduled to swoop into New York City’s Madison Square Garden on Wednesday, Sept.

when “Midnights” picked up the top prize in February, the 34-year-old superstar racked up six nods for her latest LP, “The Tortured Poets Department,” when the 2025 Grammy Award nominations were announced last week.And in doing so, Swift made more history: She became the first woman to be nominated for Album of the Year seven times, breaking a tie she previously held with Barbra Streisand.The singer credited her legion of Swifties at her Eras Tour stop in Toronto on Thursday night.“You guys got this album nominated for six Grammys,” she said. “It’s so unbelievable, so thank you.”Swift showed more love to her fans how they have embraced “The Tortured Poets Department,” which also scored Record and Song of the Year nominations for “Fortnight,” Swift’s collaboration with Post Malone.“You guys have been so wonderful about getting into this album and really understanding where I was coming from with it and you made it, by far, the biggest debut week I’ve ever had of an album,” she said.“And you kept that album at No.