The Eras Tour is the ongoing sixth headlining concert tour by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. Having not toured for her studio albums Lover (2019), Folklore (2020), and Evermore (2020) due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Swift is embarking on the Eras Tour in support of all of her albums, including her latest, Midnights (2022). It is her second all-stadium tour after the 2018 Reputation Stadium Tour. The U.S. leg of the Eras Tour commenced on March 17, 2023, in Glendale, Arizona, and is set to end on August 9, 2023, in Inglewood, California.
Described by Swift as a “journey through all of my musical eras”, an Eras Tour show lasts for over three hours, consisting of performances of 44 songs divided into 10 acts that portray Swift’s studio albums conceptually. The tour received unanimous critical acclaim, with emphasis on the concept, production, and Swift’s musicianship, vocals, charisma, stamina, and versatility as an entertainer.
Media outlets described demand for tickets to the Eras Tour as “unprecedented” and “astronomical”, with 3.5 million people registering for Ticketmaster’s presale program for the U.S. leg. Although the company’s website crashed immediately after the presale commenced on November 15, over 2.4 million tickets to the tour were sold that day, breaking the record for the most concert tickets sold by an artist in a single day.
The tour’s opening night broke Madonna’s record for the most-attended female concert in US history. In 1987, Madonna performed in front of 63,000 people at Los Angeles’ Anaheim Stadium. Taylor’s concerts can go for over five hours in total when you account for opening acts and the breaks, which she only takes to quickly change clothes.
The stage is full of various dancers, props, banners, and video screens that all coordinate with the respective parts of the concert, each of which refers to a particular era of her music career thus far. She kicks off with her album “Lover,” followed by “Fearless,” “Evermore,” “Reputation,” “Speak Now,” “Red,” “Folklore,” and “1989.”
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