Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic As the French Canadians who attended the final night of Taylor Swift’s epic road show in Vancover might say: Au revoir to all that.
The Eras Tour is now one for the history books, after 149 sold-out stadium shows, 10 million tickets sold and $2 billion in face-value sales … aside from spinoffs like a $262 million-grossing theatrical movie. (Plus, maybe some more filmic commemoration to come, judging from the camera crews capturing the final weekend of shows.) But the tour will be remembered first for putting the world in its feels, and secondarily for the figures.
How did it feel? Note that, for all the very understandable griping about prices on the secondary market — where the average resale price for the whole tour was over $1,000 (with the average price rising to more than $2,000 for the final shows in Vancouver) — it was almost impossible to find anyone on social media complaining that they actually regretted spending $1K, $2K, even $3K on a ticket.
Even with the personal sacrifice that went into some of those desperation purchases, most of those attending would still attest it was the minute-by-minute bang-for-the-buck experience of a lifetime.
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