Country Music 411

The Highest Grossing Tour (Ever Ever Ever)

Taylor Swift wrapped up her nearly two-year long, record-shattering international tour yesterday in Vancouver, British Columbia. Swift’s tour sold a total of $2,077,618,725 in tickets. That’s two billion and change — double the gross ticket sales of any other concert tour in history. Swift racked up 149 shows across five continents, making the Eras Tour the highest grossing concert tour of all time that boosted local economies every where she went.

 

The Eras Tour became the first tour to gross $1 billion as of last December (2023) — with a year still to go, according to Pollstar who predicted it would bring in $2.2 billion by the time it was over. Swift raked in millions outside of the concert ticket sales too.  Her concert movie set a box office record for concert films on its opening weekend in October 2023, making more than $95 million. By January of 2024, it earned more than $261.6 million globally, all of which helped boost her to billionaire status.

 

 

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