It’s been a long time coming…. After 149 shows across 5 continents, 21 countries, 51 cities, and more than ten million people in the stands, the Eras Tour has finally come to a close.
The tour itself made $2,077,618,725 in ticket sales, double the gross ticket sales of any other concert tour in history. That doesn’t account for the money made from merch sales or the Eras Tour concert film, which made $261 million worldwide, or the money made from the Eras tour book. The Eras Tour impacted more than those who attended and way more than swifties. This money has been put to great causes, with 197 million dollars given out by Swift to her crew. While still on the tour, she gave $100,000 dollar bonuses to her truck drivers. She donated to charities at every stop along the way, including many food banks. In Liverpool alone, Swift covered a full year’s worth of food bills for 11 food banks and eight community pantries. Every city visited received a boost in economy, launching classes at multiple universities about the “Taylor Swift effect”.
Over the course of the almost 2 year span that this tour ran, Swift released two Taylor’s Versions and The Tortured Poets Department. Each show featured over 40 songs, multiple outfit changes, and spanned 3.5 hours not counting.the openers’ sets. Every show had a unique part, the surprise acoustic set where Swift would sing a song on guitar and piano, and it transformed over the tour to feature mashups.
It’s not just fans who are sad about the end of an era.“I have not stopped crying since Sunday,” Kameron Saunders, a dancer for the tour wrote on Instagram. Gracie Abrams, who opened for 49 of the shows, said that “It felt like the last day of school backstage,” and that “Everyone had been crying all day. Everyone was walking around with their [Eras Tour] books, signing each other’s books. We were all walking around with Sharpies.” Fans and members of the tour will be missing and reminiscing on this amazing tour, watching the movie and reading the book, holding on to Taylor’s message of “See you next era”.
