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| Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour show, Vancouver, CA, Dec 7, 2024 - Carolyn Porco |
One more seismic event that I don't understand. Carolyn Porco (she led the imaging team of NASA's Cassini mission) went to a Taylor Swift concert and then wrote about her experience. I''ve heard a couple of Taylor's songs, but they made no impression on me. I don't even remember what they were, so all this blather about Taylor Swift makes no sense to me. Anyway, evidently Taylor's concert tour was exceptional in every way. Here are some numbers I pulled from the middle of Carolyn's piece.
- Swift performed 149 shows in 51 cities across 21 countries on 5 continents between March 2023 and December 2024.
- By its completion in Vancouver, Canada, on December 8, 2024 (the day after the concert I attended), the Eras Tour had sold a total of $2,077,618,725 in tickets to 10,168,008 people, breaking the previous record by a wide margin. And those numbers do not include a secondary market of ticket sellers, sales of merchandise ($200M in 2023 alone), earnings of $262M from the highest-grossing concert film of all time, and more. No other concert tour has come close.
1 comment:
You don't get it because you're not a teenage girl. They understand the lyrics, they have had those experiences, felt those feelings. Plus post covid it became the thing to do. Getting a ticket and making one of the shows brought prestige and envy from the wannabees.
You and I and all the other old men will never get it.
xoxoxoBruce
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