After more than 4 years of hiatus due to the epidemic, Taylor Swift officially opened the 6th tour in her career – The Era Tour – and achieved unprecedented achievements.
Taylor Swift kicked off her sixth concert tour with great success. Photo: Getty Images
Right from the first tour “Fearless world tour” , Taylor Swift has shown herself to be a very good ticket-selling artist among young artists when attracting 1.2 million spectators to 118 shows.
Each of her later tours was more successful and on Reputation Tour , the audience reached nearly 3 million after only 53 shows. This achievement helps Taylor Swift become the 3rd most successful female tour star of all time, behind Madonna’s The Sticky & Sweet World Tour and Pink’s The Beautiful Trauma World Tour .
On March 18 (Vietnam time), Taylor Swift officially opened the 6th tour The Eras tour at State Farm Stadium (Glendale, Arizona) and created a series of new milestones in her career.
Breaking a 36 year old record
Since the Reputation Tour , Taylor Swift has released 4 more albums: Lover, folklore, evermore and Midnight . However, due to the time of the pandemic, she did not hold a tour for any of the albums, even though they were commercially successful.
That’s why, from the very beginning, The Eras Tour has been eagerly awaited by the audience, not only because it has been nearly 5 years since Taylor Swift has held a tour, but also because of the large number of new songs that have never been performed.
However, not only performing songs from the last 4 albums, Taylor Swift also brought a slice of each album to The Er as Tour in full. Specifically, the first night included a song from Taylor Swift’s first album , 3 songs from Fearless album , one song from Speak Now album , 4 songs from Red album, 5 songs from 1989 album , 4 songs songs from the album reputation , 5 songs from the Lover album , 8 songs from the folklore album , 5 songs from the evermore album and 7 songs from the latest album – Midnights .
For each musical era, Taylor Swift wears a costume that represents that exact era in her career, making the audience not only satisfied but also reminisce about the entire illustrious career of the female singer. The total length of the night was 3 hours 15 minutes with 44 songs, the longest in Taylor’s career.
The first night of The Eras tour lasted more than 3 hours with 44 songs. Photo: Getty Images
Due to the long wait and special investment on the stage, the first night of The Eras tour attracted more than 69,000 spectators, setting a record for the most crowded solo concert in the United States of a single person. female singer. This record has existed for more than 30 years, since 1987 with the concert in the framework of Who’s That Girl World Tour of pop queen Madonna.
The show also received a rain of compliments from critics. A series of websites such as The Guardian or Telegraph have given The Eras tour 5/5 stars with explosive praise. The Telegraph ‘s Neil McCormick called it “the most ambitious, glamorous, epic pop stage ever seen”, and Variety ‘s Chris Willman said three hours of the night wasn’t enough as audiences “still wanted more”. again”.
Worthy of “Music Industry”
There have been many magazines calling Taylor Swift the Music Industry to metaphor for the female singer is so successful that she can turn the music industry to her liking since the album 1989 was released .
Since then, Taylor Swift has continuously proven that title to be correct when continuously leading in both hard disk, digital (digital) and streaming (streaming). With each album, Taylor Swift creates a new milestone. Even if not considered to be the representative artist of the streaming era, Taylor Swift still easily sets records and causes big companies to modify their policies in favor of artists.
The quality of the music and the large number of fans helped Taylor Swift to stand for many years at the top. In order to have high album sales, it is necessary to have fans who are willing to “pocket their wallets”, and to achieve good streaming volume, it needs to be loved by the public.
Taylor Swift has both, so she automatically achieves success on all platforms. Even, she successfully conquered the vinyl market – which is often considered for the most demanding music players – when owning the best-selling vinyl album of 2022.
The success of The Eras tour continues to prove that Taylor Swift’s Music Industry title is worthy of reality. Photo: Getty Images
And now, The Eras Tour will probably be the time for Taylor Swift to conquer a new milestone. According to experts, after completing 52 concerts of this tour, Taylor Swift can earn up to 591 million USD , officially breaking Madonna’s record of The Sticky & Sweet World Tour with 489 million USD , becoming a saved tour. most successful performance of all time by a female artist. This is completely within the reach of the female singer, adding to the already very dense record of “Music Industry”.
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