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Taylor Swift, in case you haven’t heard, is back. Her 10th studio album, Midnights, was released on Oct. 21 and moved 1.578 million album equivalents in its first week of release in the U.S. according to Luminate, the most since Adele’s 25 seven years ago. The album’s standard edition blanketed the Billboard Hot 100 in unprecedented fashion, occupying the chart’s entire top 10 positions. And now, she has officially announced the Eras Tour, playing stadiums in the U.S. throughout 2023.
Swift is no stranger to the stadium stage. Her last tour, 2018’s Reputation Stadium Tour, played 53 shows, earning $345.7 million and sold 2.9 million tickets, according to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore.
That was enough to make it the highest-grossing and most-attended tour of Swift’s career. She had leveled up from 2015’s The 1989 World Tour, which itself had bested The Red Tour (2013-14). From theaters to arenas to stadiums, and from smaller Midwest markets to global reach, each of Swift’s official five treks have out-grossed and out-sold the one before.
The Reputation Stadium Tour reached career-high status by staying true to its name, sticking to stadiums in all four continents that it played. Swift averaged more than 50,000 paid tickets in Asia, Australia, Europe and North America, doubling her previous high in Asia and quadrupling the nightly attendance from her previous run in Europe.
To do so, the stadium-branded tour played it smart. She played 53 shows worldwide, consolidated from the 80-plus dates on The 1989 World Tour and The Red Tour, forcing high(er) demand on an exclusive routing. In Europe, she stuck to three markets in the U.K., and in Asia only played two shows in Tokyo.
Still, Swift played 38 shows in the U.S., breaking her own record for the highest-grossing stateside tour of all time (the record has since been broken by Elton John). With an even more sparse calendar in 2023 so far, Swift will challenge herself to, once again, outdo herself.
The Eras Tour announced 27 stadium shows in the U.S. (Swift assured fans that international shows would be announced at a later date), beginning March 18 in Glendale, Arizona, and wrapping with an on Aug. 4-5 double-header in Inglewood, California. If Swift were to replicate Reputation’s $7 million nightly domestic average, the tour would earn $189.1 million and sell 1.47 million tickets.
But those figures are based on Reputation’s $128.67 average ticket price. In the time since that tour closed, platinum ticketing, dynamic pricing and inflation have changed the potential for sky-high ticket prices, especially for a stadium A-lister like Swift.
And while the initial routing for Eras is light, the time between its March kickoff and August finale is wide open. Swift is only scheduled to play one or two shows a week, leaving ample room for additional markets and, just as likely, additional shows in the cities she’s already announced. Depending on demand in the two and a half weeks between registration for Ticketmaster’s Verified Fan program and the tour’s general on-sale, Swift’s schedule could bulk up.
And why wouldn’t it? In the time since the Reputation Stadium Tour wrapped in 2018, she has topped the Billboard 200 with six albums and crowned the Hot 100 four times. She was nominated for the Grammy for album of the year three years in a row, winning in 2021 for Folklore. Between her latest record-breaking success with Midnights and the engagement surrounding the Taylor’s Version re-recordings of her older albums, Swift is setting the stage for the cumulative effect of her many eras on their titular tour.
Taylor Swift is heading out on her first tour in five years, and bringing an all-star lineup of supporting acts with her for her career-spanning The Eras Tour.
Paramore, Beabadoobee, Phoebe Bridgers, Girl in Red, MUNA, GAYLE, Gracie Abrams, OWENN and Haim will all be switching off in joining Swift’s supporting act lineup for the tour’s first leg. To celebrate hitting the road with their close pal, Haim took to Instagram to share a group photo of the sibling trio alongside Swift — all matching in leather outfits.
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“WHO’S READY FOR ROUND 2? THE ERAS TOUR,” they captioned the photo. The squad has previously teamed up for “Gasoline” off Haim’s 2020 album, Women in Music Pt. III. The sisters are featured on Swift’s Evermore, on the murder-mystery country track “No Body, No Crime,” and recently appeared in the pop superstar’s music video for “Bejeweled.”
The Eras Tour will be a celebration of all 10 of the studio albums Swift has released since 2006 — at least, that’s what the trek’s title suggests. The singer also shared a poster advertising the tour’s 27-date U.S. leg on Instagram featuring a collage of photos of herself through the years, from the time of her self-titled debut to Midnights, which dropped less than two weeks prior to the tour news.
The tour presented by Capitol One and produced by Taylor Swift Touring and promoted by the Messina Touring Group will begin on March 18 with a show at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Ariz., Swift announced during an appearance on Good Morning America. International dates will be announced soon.
“I wanted to tell you something that I’ve been so excited about for a really long time. I’ve been planning for ages and I finally get to tell you: I’m going back on tour,” Swift said on GMA. “The tour is called the Eras tour and it’s a journey through all of the musical eras of my career.”
Taylor Swift is, at long last, headed back on the road. Following this week’s monumental chart debut of Midnights, her tenth studio album, Swift announced the U.S. leg of her 2023 “Eras” tour on Tuesday morning (Nov. 1), confirming her first official tour in nearly five years following months of rumors.
The 27-date U.S. leg of the tour presented by Capitol One and produced by Taylor Swift Touring and promoted by the Messina Touring Group will begin on March 18 with a show at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona Swift announced during an appearance on Good Morning America. “I wanted to tell you something that I’ve been so excited about for a really long time. I’ve been planning for ages and I finally get to tell you: I’m going back on tour,” Swift said on GMA. “The tour is called the ‘Eras’ tour and it’s a journey through all of the musical eras of my career.” Swift said after kicking off in the U.S. the tour will go on an international swing, with those dates to be announced soon.
Support on the tour will come via a rotating cast of opening acts including Paramore, beabadoobee, Phoebe Bridgers, girl in red, Muna, Haim, Gayle, Gracie Abrams and Owenn. The public on-sale date for the tour will be 10 a.m. local venue time on Nov. 18. Swift has partnered with Ticketmaster’s Verified Fan program, with fans able to register here for the TaylorSwiftTix presale now through Nov. 9 at 11:59 p.m. ET; registered fans will get a code with exclusive access to purchase tickets on Nov. 15 starting at 10 a.m. local venue time.
Previous Lover Fest Verified Fan purchasers will get preferred access to participate in the TaylorSwiftTix presale; make sure to register with the same Ticketmaster Account as your Lover Fest purchase. Capital One cardholders will have priority access to purchase tickets on Nov. 15 at 2 p.m. local venue time through Nov. 17 at 10 p.m. local venue time or until supplies last.
The tour will be Swift’s official follow-up to her Reputation stadium tour, which broke the record for the highest-grossing U.S. tour since Billboard Boxscore began tracking touring data in 1990 upon its conclusion in November 2018. The Reputation tour, in support of Swift’s 2017 album of the same name, grossed $266.1 million and sold over 2 million tickets in the 38 shows reported to Billboard Boxscore.
Swift’s planned follow-up to the Reputation tour, Lover Fest, was scheduled to take place in 2020 following the 2019 release of her Lover album, but was canceled due to the pandemic. Since the Reputation tour, Swift has released four original studio albums — Lover, 2020’s Folklore and Evermore, and Midnights — as well as two re-recorded albums, Fearless (Taylor’s Version) and Red (Taylor’s Version), both in 2021.
This week, Midnights blasted in atop the Billboard 200 albums chart with 1.578 million equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Oct. 27, according to Luminate — the biggest week for any album in nearly seven years. Meanwhile, Swift made history on the Hot 100 by becoming the first artist to claim the chart’s entire top 10 in a single frame, with “Anti-Hero” debuting at No. 1 to become her ninth career chart-topper.
See the full list of “Eras” U.S. tour dates below:
March 18 — Glendale, AZ @ State Farm Stadium (Paramore, Gayle)
March 25 — Las Vegas, NV @ Allegiant Stadium (beeabadoobee, Gayle)
April 1 — Arlington, TX @ AT&T Stadium (beabadoobee, Gracie Abrams)
April 2 — Arlington, TX @ AT&T Stadium (beabadoobee, Gracie Abrams)
April 15 — Tampa, FL @ Raymond James Stadium (beabadoobee, Gracie Abrams)
April 22 — Houston, TX @ NRG Stadium (beabadoobee, Gracie Abrams)
April 28 — Atlanta, GA @ Mercedes-Benz Stadium (beabadoobee, Gracie Abrams)
April 29 — Atlanta, GA @ Mercedes-Benz Stadium (beabadoobee, Gracie Abrams)
May 6 — Nashville, TN @ Nissan Stadium (Phoebe Bridgers, Gayle)
May 12 — Philadelphia, PA @ Lincoln Financial Field (Phoebe Bridgers, Gayle)
May 19 — Foxborough, MA @ Gillette Stadium (Phoebe Bridgers, Gayle)
May 20 — Foxborough, MA @ Gillette Stadium (Phoebe Bridgers, Gayle)
May 26 — East Rutherford, NJ @ MetLife Stadium (Phoebe Bridgers, Gayle)
May 27 — East Rutherford, NJ @ MetLife Stadium (Phoebe Bridgers, Gracie Abrams)
June 2 — Chicago, IL @ Soldier Field (girl in red, Owenn)
June 3 — Chicago, IL @ Soldier Field (girl in red, Owenn)
June 10 — Detroit, MI @ Ford Field (girl in red, Owenn)
June 17 — Pittsburgh, PA @ Acrisure Stadium (girl in red, Owenn)
June 24 — Minneapolis, MN @ U.S. Bank Stadium (girl in red, Owenn)
July 1 — Cincinnati, OH @ Paycor Stadium (Muna, Gracie Abrams)
July 8 — Kansas City, MO @ GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium (Muna, Gracie Abrams)
July 15 — Denver, CO @ Empower Field at Mile High (Muna, Gracie Abrams)
July 22 — Seattle, WA @ Lumen Field (Haim, Gracie Abrams)
July 29 — Santa Clara, CA @ Levi’s® Stadium (Haim, Gracie Abrams)
August 4 — Los Angeles, CA @ SoFi Stadium (Haim, Owenn)
August 5 — Los Angeles, CA @ SoFi Stadium (Haim, Gayle)
For the first time in Billboard Hot 100 song chart’s 64-plus-year history, all spots in the chart’s top 10 belong to just one lead artist: Taylor Swift, thanks to the release of her 10th studio album, Midnights.
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The top 10 is led by this week’s No. 1 Hot 100 hit, “Anti-Hero,” but its hardly the first time Swift has had a chart topper on the all-genre songs tally. Starting back with her Red hit, “We Are Never Getting Back Together,” the superstar has nine total No. 1s, with “Anti-Hero” and “All Too Well (Taylor’s Version)” hitting the summit most recently.
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She laid the groundwork and then, just like clockwork, the dominoes cascaded in a line. Taylor Swift took to social media on Monday (Oct. 31) to react to her record-setting domination of this week’s top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100.
“10 out of 10 of the Hot 100??? On my 10th album??? I AM IN SHAMBLES,” the superstar tweeted along with the Billboard story breaking the historic news of her being the first artist to ever occupy every single spot in the top 10.
While Midnights‘ first single “Anti-Hero” rocketed to the top of the chart as Tay’s ninth career No. 1, the rest of the top 10 also contains, in order, “Lavender Haze,” “Maroon,” the Lana Del Rey-assisted “Snow on the Beach,” “Midnight Rain,” “Bejeweled,” “Question…?,” “You’re On Your Own, Kid,” “Karma” and “Vigilante Shit.”
But that’s not all: A bit further down the all-genre tally, Swift, in fact, charted all 20 tracks on Midnights (3am Edition) on the Hot 100, including standard album closer “Mastermind,” “Labyrinth” and “Sweet Nothing” at Nos. 13, 14 and 15.
Of the seven bonus tracks, fan-favorite highlight “Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve” landed highest at No. 20. The other six placements included “Bigger Than the Whole Sky” at No. 21, “The Great War” at No. 26, “Paris” at No. 32, “High Infidelity” at No. 33, “Glitch” at No. 41 and closing ballad “Dear Reader” rounding out the set at No. 45.
Midnights set plenty of other high-water marks for the icon’s already illustrious career, including being the first album to cross the million mark in its first week since her own reputation in 2017 and delivering the biggest first-week sales of any album in the seven years since Adele’s 25 was released in 2015.
Check out Taylor’s emotional reaction to making Billboard history below.
Taylor Swift stopped by The Graham Norton Show in the U.K. on Friday (Oct. 28) to talk about her new album Midnights and dished on the process of re-recording her first six albums.
“I just figured if I made them the first time, I can make them again,” she said after briefly explaining how her back catalog from 2006’s Taylor Swift to 2017’s reputation was controversially sold to Scooter Braun after she changed record labels from longtime home Big Machine to Republic.
When Norton asked if the strategy behind re-recording was working at radio, the superstar said, “Yes … one of the things I was most thankful for was there’s a company of many stations in America called iHeart, and they have sworn to only play my new versions. And they’ve said that they’ll switch it out for the old versions every time I put out a new version of a song.
“Which is just, like, it’s so heartwarming to me,” Tay continued. “Because this is something that I care about, but I don’t expect other people to care about it. It’s something that’s very personal to me and it’s a lot of work, but it’s really fun and rewarding for me and I can’t believe people have actually gotten behind it the way they have.”
During the talk show, Swift was joined on the couches by Bono, actor Eddie Redmayne and former professional U.K. soccer star Alex Scott, all of whom seemed visibly supportive along with Norton about the superstar’s re-recording plan. Redmayne and the singer also got to reminisce in the joint interview about the ill-fated screen test they did together as Marius and Eponine for the 2012 movie musical Les Misérables — though the latter role ultimately went to West end actress Samantha Barks.
Watch Swift open up about her re-recording process below.
Taylor Swift has always been explicit in her songs — delivering crystal-clear messages with uber-specific details. And in the last five years, she’s also been explicit in the “parental advisory” definition of the word — meaning she’s now comfortable dropping an F-bomb here and there.
When Swift released her sixth studio album, reputation, in 2017, her return to music after three years was a triumphant one, as she took control of her own narrative and cemented her transformation from America’s sweetheart to proudly feminist idol. And her declaration in the album cut “I Did Something Bad” that “If a man talks sh– then I owe him nothing” formally marked her dive into the world of curse words.
Sure, there are a few instances of a pre-reputation Taylor letting out some of the less offensive expletives. If you listen closely, you’ll even find one in her debut album: “You never did give a damn thing, honey,” she sings in the bridge of the emotional ballad “Cold as You.” But the death of “OId Taylor” is when the swear words really began to soar.
With Lover in 2019 came the line “I’d be a bi—, not a baller” from “The Man.” But Swift’s first explicitly explicit tracks did not arrive until her pandemic-era 2020 sister albums folklore and evermore. Opening the former with the line “I’m doing good, I’m on some new sh–” was just the start; iconic lyrics like “’What a shame she’s f—ed in the head,’ they said” followed shortly after.
On her 10th studio set Midnights, the lyrics have become more colorful than ever. The 13-track project includes six explicit songs, with the curse words ranging from “hell” to “f—in’” to one we surely did not have on our bingo card: “di–head.”
As the pop superstar continues to embrace her honest lyricism, keep reading for 20 times Taylor Swift has cursed in her songs.
Taylor Swift‘s followed up the excitement of her Midnights release by dropping the instrumental version of “Question…?”
According to initial reports to Luminate, the album has earned more than 1.4 million equivalent album units in the U.S. through its first five days of release (through Oct. 25).
If you need a guide to follow along with Taylor Swift’s “Question…?” find the lyrics below:
(I remember)
Good girl, sad boy, big city, wrong choicesWe had one thing going onI swear that it was something ’cause I don’t remember who I wasBefore you painted all my nights a color I’ve searched for since
But one thing after another f—ing situationCircumstances, miscommunicationsAnd I have to say, by the wayI just may like some explanations
Can I ask you a question?Did you ever have someone kiss you in a crowded room?And every single one of your friends was making fun of youBut fifteen seconds later they were clapping, too?Then, what did you do?
Did you leave her house in the middle of the night? (Oh)Did you wish you’d put up more of a fight? (Oh)When she said it was too muchDo you wish you could still touch her?It’s just a question
Half-moon eyes, bad surprise, did you realize?Out of time, she was on your mindWith some di–head guy that you saw that nightBut you were on something
It was one drink after another, f—ing politics and gender-rolesAnd you’re not sure and I don’t know got swept away in the grayI just may like to have a conversation
Can I ask you a question?Did you ever have someone kiss you in a crowded room?And every single one of your friends was making fun of youBut fifteen seconds later they were clapping, too?Then, what did you do?
Did you leave her house in the middle of the night? (Oh)Did you wish you’d put up more of a fight? (Oh)When she said it was too muchDo you wish you could still touch her?It’s just a question
Does it feel like everything’s just like second-best after that meteor strike?And what’s that, that I heard, that you’re still with her?That’s nice, I’m sure that’s what’s suitableAnd right, but tonight
Can I ask you a question? (Can I ask you a question?)Did you ever have someone kiss you in a crowded room? (In a crowded room)And every single one of your friends was making fun of you? (Making fun of you)But fifteen seconds later they were clapping, too?Then what did you do? (Do)
Did you leave her house in the middle of the night? (Oh)Did you wish you’d put up more of a fight? (Oh, more of a fight)When she said it was too muchDo you wish you could still touch her?It’s just a question
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Taylor Swift called on her friends Haim, Laura Dern, Jack Antonoff and Dita Von Teese for her dazzling Cinderella-inspired music video for “Bejeweled,” featured on her 10th studio album, Midnights.
“Midnight, what a storied and fabled hour… On this sparkling evening I’ll be releasing my twist on a fairytale we all know. The one about the girl and her step sisters and the clock striking 12…” she captioned her announcement of the video, featuring a photo of herself as the fairytale princess, sitting in a dark room wearing a worn down dress while sewing a glittery, midnight blue gown. “This video is wild, whimsical and created SPECIFICALLY for you, my beloved fans who have paved this shimmering path.”
If you need a guide to follow along with Taylor Swift’s “Bejeweled,” find the lyrics below:Baby love, I think I’ve been a little too kindDidn’t notice you walking all over my peace of mindIn the shoes I gave you as a presentPuttin’ someone first only works when you’re in their top fiveAnd by the way, I’m going out tonight
Best believe I’m still bejeweled when I walk in the roomI can still make the whole place shimmerAnd when I meet the band, they ask, “Do you have a man?”I can still say, “I don’t remember”Familiarity breeds contempt, don’t put me in the basementWhen I want the penthouse of your heartDiamonds in my eyes, I polish up real, I polish up real nice (nice)
Baby boy, I think I’ve been too good of a girl (too good of a girl)Did all the extra credit, then got graded on a curveI think it’s time to teach some lessonsI made you my world, have you heard?I can reclaim the landAnd I miss you (I miss you), but I miss sparkling (ah, hey)
Best believe I’m still bejeweled when I walk in the roomI can still make the whole place shimmerAnd when I meet the band, they ask, “Do you have a man?”I can still say, “I don’t remember”Familiarity breeds contempt, don’t put me in the basementWhen I want the penthouse of your heartDiamonds in my eyes, I polish up real, I polish up real nice (nice)
Sapphire tears on my face, sadness became my whole skyBut some guy said my aura’s moonstone just ’cause he was highI went dancin’ all night and you can try to change my mindBut you might have to wait in lineWhat’s a girl gonna do? A diamond’s gotta shine
Best believe I’m still bejeweled when I walk in the roomI can still make the whole place shimmer (shimmer)And when I meet the band, they ask, “Do you have a man?”I can still say, “I don’t remember”Familiarity breeds contempt, don’t put me in the basementWhen I want the penthouse of your heartDiamonds in my eyes, I polish up real (nice), I polish up real nice
I went dancin’ all night and you can try to change my mindBut you might have to wait in lineWhat’s a girl gonna do? What’s a girl gonna do? I polish up niceBest believe I’m still bejeweled when I walk in the roomI can still make the whole place shimmer
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Taylor Swift took fans deep into her mind with the release of “Anti-Hero,” off her freshly dropped 10th studio album, Midnights.
Swift previously called the track “one of my favorite songs I’ve ever written,” as she’s never “delved this far into my insecurities in this detail before.”
“I struggle a lot with the idea that my life has become unmanageably sized,” she continued. “Not to sound too dark, but I just struggle with the idea of not feeling like a person — don’t feel bad for me, you don’t need to. But this song really is a real guided tour through all the things I tend to hate about myself; we all hate things about ourselves.”
If you need a guide to follow along with Taylor Swift’s “Anti-Hero,” find the lyrics below:
I have this thing where I get older but just never wiserMidnights become my afternoonsWhen my depression works the graveyard shiftAll of the people I’ve ghosted stand there in the room
I should not be left to my own devicesThey come with prices and vicesI end up in crisis (I’ve realized all this time)I wake up screaming from dreamingOne day I’ll watch as you’re leaving‘Cause you got tired of my schemingFor the last time
It’s me, hi, I’m the problem, it’s meAt tea time, everybody agreesI’ll stare directly at the sun but never in the mirrorIt must be exhausting, always rooting for the anti-hero
Sometimes I feel like everybody is a sexy babyAnd I’m a monster on the hillToo big to hang out, slowly lurching toward your favorite cityPierced through the heart, but never killed
Did you hear my covert narcissism I disguise as altruismLike some kind of congressman? (I’ve realized all this time)I wake up screaming from dreamingOne day I’ll watch as you’re leavingAnd life will lose all of its meaningFor the last time
It’s me, hi, I’m the problem, it’s me (I’m the problem, it’s me)At tea time, everybody agreesI’ll stare directly at the sun but never in the mirrorIt must be exhausting, always rooting for the anti-hero
I have this dream my daughter in-law kills me for the moneyShe thinks I left them in the willThe family gathers around and reads it and someone screams out“She’s laughing up at us from hell”
It’s me, hi, I’m the problem, it’s meIt’s me, hi, I’m the problem, it’s meIt’s me, hi, everybody agrees, everybody agrees
It’s me, hi (hi), I’m the problem, it’s me (I’m the problem, it’s me)At tea (tea) time (time), everybody agrees (everybody agrees)I’ll stare directly at the sun but never in the mirrorIt must be exhausting, always rooting for the anti-hero
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