Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour — summing it up by the numbers

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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. “It really kick-started spending.”And because of her boost to the live-music industry, Brooks said, “People are going to be looking to experience concerts at all levels.”Here are the notable numbers that sum up Swift’s historic tour:There have been 10 different acts in the Eras Tour show, representing each album in her career — except for her self-titled 2006 debut.

After “The Tortured Poets Department” was released in April, Swift combined the “Folklore” and “Evermore” sections to make way for the new LP.Rocking everything from Atelier Versace and Roberto Cavalli to Oscar de la Renta, the “Blank Space” hitmaker made 16 costume changes in a nonstop fashion flurry during each show.

When the tour reopened in Paris in May after a two-month break, she updated her designer duds.The number of lucky opening acts for Swift on the tour — from Paramore, Gracie Abrams and Phoebe Bridgers to Sabrina Carpenter, Haim and Benson Boone.