A look back at Taylor Swift's record-breaking, 21-month tour

Taylor Swift's Eras Tour came to a close Sunday night, capping off nearly two years of sparkly outfits, friendship bracelets and record-breaking sales.

The tour, an autobiographical journey through Swift's extensive discography, started in Arizona in March 2023. Over the next 630-plus days, Swift performed 149 shows — each more than three hours long — in over 50 cities across five continents.

The Eras Tour by the numbers:

• Swift performed 149 shows between March 2023 and December 2024.
• The tour traveled to 51 cities across 21 countries.
• A typical Eras show featured 44-46 songs and ran for 3 hours and 15 minutes.
• Swift spent a total of roughly 25 hours performing her 10-minute version of "All Too Well."
• A total of 10,168,008 people purchased $2,077,618,725 in tickets — averaging about $204 per seat, Swift's company told the NYT.
• Eighteen opening acts warmed up the crowd for Swift, including Sabrina Carpenter, Paramore and Phoebe Bridgers. Fifteen special guests, mostly musicians, joined her onstage in occasional surprise appearances.
• Swift wore more than 60 outfits throughout the tour and more than 250 custom pairs of shoes by designer Christian Louboutin.
• Swift's biggest crowd (of both the tour and her entire career) was 96,000 people at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Australia in February.
• In July 2023, Seattle fans danced so hard that they created the seismic equivalent of a 2.3 magnitude earthquake.

Meanwhile, during the tour:

• Swift was Spotify's most-streamed artist for two years in a row, driving 26.6 billion global streams in 2024 alone.
• Time magazine named Swift its 2023 Person of the Year.
• Swift released three albums while on tour: She re-recorded "Taylor's Version" of Speak Now and 1989 in 2023, and released The Tortured Poets Department in April 2024 (which also yielded four music videos).
• That's in addition to her concert film, book and vinyl.
• Swift canceled her Vienna concerts after a terrorist plot to attack them was foiled, and postponed her second Brazil show due to heat after a fan died during the first one.
• Swift endorsed Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, driving more than 400,000 visitors to a voting registration website and prompting blowback from President-elect Donald Trump.
• The U.S. Department of Justice filed a civil antitrust suit against Live Nation Entertainment and its subsidiary, Ticketmaster, alleging it created a monopoly on live ticket event prices — a step that satisfied many disappointed Swifties.
• Swift stopped dating actor Joe Alwyn and started dating Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce (and attending his games, where she made "seemingly ranch" an overnight sensation). Swift somehow made it to Las Vegas from Tokyo overnight to see — and be seen — when the Chiefs won the 2023 Superbowl.
• Their very public relationship has won delighted fans, driven up female NFL viewership and stadium ticket prices and even inspired a Hallmark holiday movie.

What's next?

• Some possible downtime for Swift, who will turn 35 on Dec. 13.
• Fans eagerly await her last two re-recorded albums: her self-titled 2006 debut, and 2017's Reputation.
• The singer was nominated for six Grammys, including album, song and record of the year. The awards show is scheduled for Feb. 2.

Source : npr.org