Taylor Swift’s ‘Eras’ tour brings in record-breaking $2billion

nme.com:

Taylor Swift‘s ‘Eras’ tour grossed a record-breaking $2billion through ticket sales.The colossal tour ended last night (December 8) at Vancouver, British Columbia’s BC Place Stadium, after 149 shows that took place across 21 months.Last December, at the tour’s midpoint, Swift made history when the tour became the first to gross $1billion (£796million).

Prior to that, it was estimated that, once it had concluded, the tour would be the most lucrative in music history.Now, it’s been revealed that in total, the worldwide trek sold $2,077,618,725 (£1.6billion) worth of tickets, per the New York Times.With these figures, Swift doubles the record for any other concert tour in history, including Coldplay‘s ‘Music of the Spheres’ tour, which in August was announced as the highest-grossing rock tour ever.In total, 10,168,008 people across the world attended the tour, making the average ticket price $204 (£160).The figures, provided by Swift’s production company Taylor Swift Touring, don’t include earnings from merchandise or secondary ticket sales.Earlier this week, it was revealed that a book about the ‘Eras’ tour sold more than 800,000 copies in its first weekend of release.Meanwhile, Swift recently shared her reaction to ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ achieving the most streamed album of 2024 on Apple Music earlier this week (December 3).The streaming platform shared its year-end charts for 2024, which reveal the biggest songs of the year by Apple Music streams, Shazam tags, radio spins, read lyrics and more.The results reveal that the expanded edition of Swift’s eleventh studio album, ‘The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology’ – which NME gave three stars – was the most streamed album this year on the platform..