Taylor Swift ends her Eras Tour era with  billion in earnings

Taylor Swift ends her Eras Tour era with $2 billion in earnings

Here’s a sentence this author wasn’t sure she’d ever type: The Eras Tour is over. Last night, Taylor Swift played her final show in Vancouver, Canada, officially ending the 21-month phenomenon changed the face of the travel industry And has broken just about every record imaginable to bed. But while Swift may have an empty spot in her schedule for the first time since March 2023, she certainly doesn’t have one in her wallet. Now that all is said and done, The New York Times Reports that the tour officially grossed an incredible total ticket sales of $2,077,618,725. That is a much So if you need help counting, there are two billion dollars – more than double Coldplay’s previous record of $1 billion for a similar series of shows and arenas.

This huge sum, one, that has helped boost several global economieswas garnered by a new official total of 10,168,008 attendees across 149 completely sold out shows. That means each seat cost an average of about $204. That number itself is well above the industry average of $131 per ticket in 2023 (via Pollstar and NYT), not to mention the fact that we all know a lot of people bought tickets for it So beyond that amount – either on the resale market or on Ticketmaster itself. (The entire Ticketmaster situation is due for several post-mortems, which we don’t have space for here.) According to ticket seller Victory Live, the average resale price for Vancouver’s three-day final series was $2,952 ($2,952!) and StubHub Unsurprisingly, it was the best-selling tour in the platform’s two-decade history.

Swift herself doesn’t see any additional profit from these resale returns, but even if she had, she probably wouldn’t have noticed. That $2 billion figure doesn’t include merchandise sales (which in some cities required a special stand for early sales) or the profits it makes from them record-breaking Concert filmwhich grossed $261 million at the worldwide box office last year, or they – you guessed it! – she Record-breaking concert bookwhich sold 814,000 copies in print in just two days last month.

“We traveled all over the world with this tour. We’ve had so many adventures,” Swift said during the final show last night. “It was the most exciting, powerful, electrifying, intense and challenging thing I have ever done in my life.” Good luck completing every other tour from now on until eternity. (Or at least until Swift decides to hit the road again.)

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