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Taylor Swift gave some Swifties an early Christmas present on Monday morning (Dec. 12) when some fans who signed up for the Verified Fan presale for her Eras Tour last month who were unable to land tickets were notified that they were getting a second chance. An unknown number of fans who signed up for the Ticketmaster Verified Fan pre-sale who were locked out when shows went on sale last month due to a crush of demand were notified that they will have an opportunity to participate in an upcoming sale.
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“Congratulations, you have been selected to participate in a limited-time opportunity to request to purchase 2 tickets to Taylor Swift The Eras Tour,’ read the note. “You were selected for this opportunity because you have been identified as a fan who received a boost during the Verified Fan presale but did not purchase tickets,” the note continued. “We apologized for the difficulties you may have experienced, and have been asked by Taylor’s team to create this additional opportunity for you to purchase tickets.”
The note says that the ticket purchasing window will begin sometime before Dec. 23, with invitations issued on a staggered basis by tour date in each city. Fans will get additional information and instructions on how to submit their request at an as-yet-unannounced future date.
Last month, Ticketmaster issued a formal apology to Swifties after the chaotic sales process for her 2023 Eras Tour left many on the outside looking in. “We want to apologize to Taylor and all of her fans — especially those who had a terrible experience trying to purchase tickets,” Ticketmaster tweeted on Nov. 18. “We feel we owe it to everyone to share some information to help explain what happened.”
The debacle stemmed from the crush of fans trying to enter Swift’s presale for her 52-date Eras Tour, which initially caused the system to crash shortly after launch as 14 million fans and billions of bots flooded the site, causing service disruptions. Ticketmaster noted that more than 3.5 million fans pre-registered for Swift’s Verified Fan program, with 90% of the ticket inventory vanishing in the first two days of the pre-sale. The botched sale has since sparked interest from a number of lawmakers in Washington and across the country interested in probing whether Ticketmaster and parent company Live Nation have abused their huge market share in the live music industry.
A spokesperson for Ticketmaster had not returned Billboard‘s request for additional information on the Verified Fan ticket release at press time; a spokesperson for Swift had not official comment.
Elle King apologized to fans on Thursday (Dec. 8) after she was forced to cancel three shows this week following a slip-and-fall at home. The singer revealed in a note that she had an accident while feeding her newborn son, Lucky Levi.
“Just wanted to check in with a quick update and apologize to my fans in Tampa, Detroit and Seattle. I share your disappointment that I had to cancel my radio shows this week,” she said of pulling out of the gigs in Tampa (Dec. 7), Detroit (Dec. 8) and Seattle (Dec. 9). “No one ever wants to pull out of shows, especially me,” she continued.
“I live for performing. I slipped down the stairs making a bottle in the middle of the night, knocked my ass out, resulting in a concussion,” King explained. “I tired to push through and played 3 shows, but the travel, lights, all of it only exacerbated things.” King thanked all the artists who stepped in to fill her slots and the radio station sponsors for understanding.
King is preparing to release her first full-length country album, Come Get Your Wife (Jan. 27), which will feature her duet with Miranda Lambert, “Drunk (And I Don’t Want to Go Home),” as well as previously released tracks “Try Jesus,” “Out Yonder” and the Dierks Bentley duet “Worth a Shot.”
The singer is slated to hit the road again in February when she kicks off her A-Freakin-Men headlining tour on Valentine’s Day at the Fillmore New Orleans.
Check out King’s tweet below.
Ben Gibbard will be pulling some serious double-duty next fall when he takes both his indie rock favorite bands on the road for the first ever Death Cab For Cutie/The Postal Service joint tour. The co-headlining outing that will mark the 20th anniversary of Death Cab’s breakthrough fourth album, 2003’s Transatlanticism and that year’s Postal Service debut, Give Up, will feature both bands performing the respective albums in full.
Gibbard, co-founder of both groups, will front the bands for the unique tour announced on Thursday (Dec. 8). “I know for a fact I will never have a year again like 2003,” the singer said in a release announcing the run of 17 U.S. shows that is slated to kick off on Sept. 8, 2023 in Portland, Maine and run through an Oct. 13 gig at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. “The Postal Service record came out, Transatlanticism came out. These two records will be on my tombstone, and I’m totally fine with that. I’ve never had a more creatively inspired year.”
The Postal Service lineup of Gibbard, keyboardist Jimmy Tamborello and singer/guitarist Jenny Lewis will perform alongside Death Cab, which features bassist Nick Harmer, guitarist/keyboardists Dave Depper and Zac Rae and drummer Jason McGerr. The unique outing will mark The Postal Service’s first live performances in more than a decade following 2013’s 10-year anniversary reunion tour for Give Up, which remains Sub Pop Records’ second highest-selling album of all time behind Nirvana’s 1989 debut full-length album Bleach.
Pre-sales begin on Dec. 14 at 10 am. local and continue through Dec. 15 at 10 p.m. local; sign up for early access here and check out complete ticket information here. The general on-sale will begin at 10 a.m. local time on Dec. 16.
Check out the fall 2023 tour dates and a teaser video below.
Sept. 8 – Portland, ME @ Cross Insurance Arena
Sept. 9 – Kingston, RI @ The Ryan Center
Sept. 10 – New Haven, CT @ Westville Music Bowl
Sept. 12 – Boston, MA @ MGM Music Hall
Sept. 13 – Boston, MA @ MGM Music Hall
Sept. 14 – Washington, DC @ Merriweather Post Pavilion
Sept. 17 – Detroit, MI @ Meadow Brook Amphitheater
Sept. 20 – New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden
Sept. 21 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Mann Center
Sept. 24 – Minneapolis, MN @ Armory
Sept. 26 – Denver, CO @ Mission Ballroom
Sept. 27 – Denver, CO @ Mission Ballroom
Oct. 3 – Phoenix, AZ @ Arizona Financial Theatre
Oct. 4 – Las Vegas, NV @ The Chelsea Ballroom at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas
Oct. 7 – Seattle, WA @ Climate Pledge Arena
Oct. 10 – Berkeley, CA @ Greek Theatre – UC Berkeley
Oct. 13 – Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Bowl
The Red Hot Chili Peppers announced the dates for their 2023 world tour on Monday morning (Dec. 5), a massive outing that will have the veteran pop rock funkers playing a mix of stadium and festival dates. The 23-date tour is support of the two studio albums the Chili Peppers released this year, Unlimited Love and Return of the Dream Canteen, is slated to kick off on March 29 with a show at BC Place in Vancouver and feature stops in Las Vegas, Minneapolis, San Diego and Phoenix, as well as a slot at the Hangout Music Festival in Gulf Shores, Alabama on May 19.
The tour will feature support for a wide variety of rock, pop and hip-hop acts on a rotating basis, including The Strokes, Iggy Pop, The Roots, The Mars Volta, St. Vincent, City and Colour, Thundercat and King Princess. The dates will follow-up on the group’s recently completed 40-date North American/European stadium tour and an upcoming January 2023 swing through Australia and New Zealand featuring opening act Post Malone.
The European portion of their 2023 tour will kick off on June 18 at the Pinkpop fest in Landgraff, NL and feature appearances at a number of summer festivals, including Rock Werchther and Mad Cool, winding down on July 23 with a show at Hampden Park in Glasgow, UK; The Glasgow show was originally scheduled for summer 2022, with all existing tickets for the original date valid for the make-up gig.
Tickets for the tour will go on sale on Friday (Dec. 9) at 10 a.m. local time here.
Check out the RHCP’s 2023 tour dates below:
March 29 – Vancouver, BC @ BC Place *~
April 1 – Las Vegas, NV @ Allegiant Stadium #~
April 6 – Fargo, ND @ FARGODOME ^~
April 8 – Minneapolis, MN @ US Bank Stadium ^~
April 14 – Syracuse, NY @ JMA Wireless Dome ^~
May 12 – San Diego, CA @ Snap Dragon Stadium >+
May 14 – Phoenix, AZ @ State Farm Stadium ^+
May 17 – San Antonio, TX @ Alamodome ^+
May 19 – Gulf Shores, AL @ Hangout Music Festival =
May 25 – Houston, TX @ Minute Maid Park ^+
June 18 – Landgraaf, NL @ Pinkpop =
June 21 – Warsaw, Poland @ PGE Narodowy
The Weeknd announced the dates for the second leg of his After Hours Til Dawn global stadium tour on Monday morning (Nov. 28). The run of shows is slated to kick off at Etihad Stadium in Manchester, UK on June 10 with support from Kaytranada and Mike Dean and then move on to Denmark, Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands, Ireland, Germany, Belgium, Spain, France, Italy, the Czech Republic, Poland before wrapping in Estonia on August 12.
The gigs will then pick up again on Sept. 29 with a show at Foro Sol stadium in Mexico City, before moving on to Colombia, Brazil, Argentina and Chile. Tickets for the European dates go on sale on Friday (Dec. 2) at noon local time, with fans who purchased tickets for the 2022 After Hours arena tour in Europe eligible to register for presale access to the 2023 dates here.
Check out the dates for the Weeknd’s After Hours Til Dawn 2023 stadium tour below:
June 10 – Manchester, UK @ Etihad StadiumJune 14 – Horsens, Denmark @ Nordstern ArenaJune 17 – Stockholm, Sweden @ Tele2 ArenaJune 20 – Oslo, Norway @ Telenor ArenaJune 24 – Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Johan Cruijiff ArenAJune 28 – Dublin, Ireland @ Marlay ParkJuly 2 – Hamburg, Germany @ VolksparkstadionJuly 4 – Dusseldorf, Germany @ Merkur Spiel ArenaJuly 7 – London, UK @ London StadiumJuly 11 – Brussels, Belgium @ King Baudouin StadiumJuly 14 – Frankfurt, Germany @ Deutsche Bank ParkJuly 18 – Madrid, Spain @ Cívitas MetropolitanoJuly 20 – Barcelona, Spain @ Estadi Olímpic Lluís CompanysJuly 22 – Nice, France @ Allianz RivieraJuly 26 – Milan, Italy @ Ippodromo La MauraJuly 29 – Paris, France @ Stade de FranceAug 1 – Bordeaux, France @ Matmut AtlantiqueAug 4 – Munich, Germany @ OlympiastadionAug 6 – Prague, Czech Republic @ Letnany AirportAug 9 – Warsaw, Poland @ PGE NarodowyAug 12 – Tallinn, Estonia @ Tallinn Song Festival GroundsSep 29 – Mexico City, Mexico @ Foro SolOct 4 – Bogotá, Colombia @ Estadio El CampínOct 7 – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil @ Estádio Nilton Santos EngenhãoOct 10 – Sao Paulo, Brazil @ Allianz ParqueOct 13 – Buenos Aires, Argentina @ Hipódromo de San IsidroOct 15 – Santiago, Chile @ Estadio Bicentenario La Florida
Metallica will come roaring back in 2023 with a new album and a the launch of a massive world tour. The veteran metal band’s 12th studio album, 72 Seasons, is due out on April 14 via the band’s Blackened Recordings imprint.
The first full-length from the band since 2016’s Hardwired… To Self-Destruct, was produced by Greg Fidelman along with Metallica singer/guitarist James Hetfield and drummer Lars Ulrich. At more than 77 minutes, the 12-track collection can be previewed now via the thundering, breakneck first single, “Lux Æterna” (watch the video below).
“72 seasons. The first 18 years of our lives that form our true or false selves,” Hetfield said in a statement announcing the album. “The concept that we were told ‘who we are’ by our parents. A possible pigeonholing around what kind of personality we are. I think the most interesting part of this is the continued study of those core beliefs and how it affects our perception of the world today. Much of our adult experience is reenactment or reaction to these childhood experiences. Prisoners of childhood or breaking free of those bondages we carry.”
The band also announced a massive 2023-2024 Live Nation-promoted tour on Monday (Nov. 28), during which they will play two nights in every city they visit, with each No Repeat Weekend featuring two completely different setlists and support acts. The M72 world tour will feature an in-the-round stage set-up that will move the signature up-close Metallica Snake Pit section to center stage. The tour will also feature discounted tickets for fans 16 and under.
The world trek is currently slated to kick off on April 27 with a pair of shows at the Johan Cruijff Arena in Amsterdam, followed by two-night stands in Paris, Hamburg (Germany) and Gothenburg (Sweden) before hitting U.S. shores on Aug. 4 at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. for a series of North American gigs currently slated to run through a Nov. 12 show at Ford Field in Detroit. The outing will pick up again on May 24, 2024 with another European swing before returning to North America in August 2024.
Among the rotating group of opening acts slated to join them are: Architects, Mammoth WVH, Five Finger Death Punch, Ice Nine Kills, Volbeat, Pantera and Greta Van Fleet.
Watch the “Lux Æterna” video and check out the 72 Seasons track list and 2023-2024 tour dates below.
72 Seasons track list:
“72 Seasons”
“Shadows Follow”
“Screaming Suicide”
“Sleepwalk My Life Away”
“You Must Burn!”
“Lux Æterna”
“Crown of Barbed Wire”
“Chasing Light”
“If Darkness Had a Son”
“Too Far Gone?”
“Room of Mirrors”
“Inamorata”
M72 2023-2024 tour dates
April 27 – Amsterdam NL @ Johan Cruijff Arena
April 29 – Amsterdam NL @ Johan Cruijff Arena
May 17 – Paris FR @ Stade de France*
May 19 – Paris FR @ Stade de France
May 26 – Hamburg DE @ Volksparkstadion
May 28 – Hamburg DE @ Volksparkstadion
June 16 – Gothenburg SE @ Ullevi Stadium**
June 18 – Gothenburg SE @ Ullevi Stadium
August 4 – East Rutherford, NJ @ MetLife Stadium
August 6 – East Rutherford, NJ @ MetLife Stadium
August 11 – Montreal, QC @ Stade Olympique
August 13 – Montreal, QC @ Stade Olympique
August 18 – Arlington, TX @ AT&T Stadium
August 20 – Arlington, TX @ AT&T Stadium
August 25 – Inglewood, CA @ SoFi Stadium
August 27 – Inglewood, CA @ SoFi Stadium
Sept. 1 – Glendale, AZ @ State Farm Stadium
Sept. 3 – Glendale, AZ @ State Farm Stadium
Nov. 3 – St. Louis, MO @ The Dome at America’s Center
Nov. 5 – St. Louis, MO @ The Dome at America’s Center
Nov. 10 – Detroit, MI @ Ford Field
Nov. 12 – Detroit, MI @ Ford Field
May 24, 2024 – Munich DE @ Olympiastadion
May 26, 2024 – Munich DE @ Olympiastadion
June 7, 2024 – Helsinki FI @ Olympic Stadium
June 9, 2024 – Helsinki FI @ Olympic Stadium
June 14, 2024 – Copenhagen DK @ Parken Stadium
June 16, 2024 – Copenhagen DK @ Parken Stadium
July 5, 2024 – Warsaw PL @ PGE Narodowy
July 7, 2024 – Warsaw PL @ PGE Narodowy
July 12, 2024 – Madrid ES @ Estadio Cívitas Metropolitano
July 14, 2024 – Madrid ES @ Estadio Cívitas Metropolitano
August 2, 2024 – Foxborough, MA @ Gillette Stadium
August 4, 2024 – Foxborough, MA @ Gillette Stadium
August 9, 2024 – Chicago, IL @ Soldier Field
August 11, 2024 – Chicago, IL @ Soldier Field
August 16, 2024 – Minneapolis, MN @ US Bank Stadium
August 18, 2024 – Minneapolis, MN @ US Bank Stadium
August 23, 2024 – Edmonton, AB @ Commonwealth Stadium
August 25, 2024 – Edmonton, AB @ Commonwealth Stadium
August 30, 2024 – Seattle, WA @ Lumen Field
Sept. 1, 2024 – Seattle, WA @ Lumen Field
Sept. 20, 2024 – Mexico City MX @ Foro Sol***
Sept. 22, 2024 – Mexico City MX @ Foro Sol
Sept. 27, 2024 – Mexico City MX @ Foro Sol***
Sept. 29, 2024 – Mexico City MX – Foro Sol
Show 1 Support Europe: Architects & Mammoth WVH**Show 2 Support Europe: Five Finger Death Punch & Ice Nine Kills*Five Finger Death Punch/Ice Nine Kills play show 1 in Paris, Architects & Mammoth WVH play show 2 in Paris **Volbeat replaces Architects on show 1 in Gothenburg
Show 1 Support North America: Pantera & Mammoth WVH***Show 2 Support North America: Five Finger Death Punch & Ice Nine Kills***Greta Van Fleet replaces Pantera on show 1 both weekends in Mexico City
Kenny Chesney will revisit some of the tour markets that marked the early days of his career when he launches his 2023 I Go Back Tour. The outing will kick off on March 25 at State College, Pennsylvania’s Bryce Jordan Center the first of 21 dates that will criss-cross the country, including stops in Lexington, Kentucky; Grand Rapids, Michigan; Lincoln, Nebraska and more.
“When a year is as hot and alive as 2022 was, you don’t want to try to recapture that magic. Or maybe it’s me,” Chesney said via a statement. “I still have the sounds of diesel engines and No Shoes Nation in my head – and that made me ask, ‘What else could I do? What would be something that would put me every bit as much in the music and give No Shoes Nation another reason to believe? How can we reach those people who might not come to stadium shows, who live a little off the obvious path, but who love this music every bit as much… “And that’s when it hit me: ‘I Go Back.’ That song is about holding all those things that shaped you very close, recognizing how special they are – and keeping them alive any way you can. So, I decided that rather than just go repeat what we did, I wanted to take this band and these songs to a lot of the cities we played on our way up! Let’s call the tour I Go Back – and do just that.”
Joining Chesney will be fellow Knoxville, Tennessee, native and country artist Kelsea Ballerini. Ballerini and Chesney previously earned a No. 1 Billboard Country Airplay hit with their 2021 collaboration on “half of my hometown,” which also won CMA Awards honors for video of the year and musical event of the year.
“Kelsea understands everything about where I come from, because she’s from there, too,” Chesney said in his statement. “She knows how hard it is to leave, how much you miss all those things that make you who you are… but also how the only way to chase the kind of dream she has is to do just that. It’s a tough call when you love home the way we both do, but for kids like us, there was never really a choice. When she texted me to sing on the song she’d written with some of our friends, I said, ‘Let me hear it,’ knowing she knew everything about who I was. As soon as I heard that first verse, I was in. And I have been one of Kelsea’s biggest fans ever since. She’s a writer, a girl who sings from her heart and isn’t afraid to honor where she comes from. To me, there was no other choice for this tour.”
“Music has taken me so many incredible places,” Ballerini added. “Around the world, singing with some of my heroes in pop, alternative and contemporary music, but singing with Kenny is going home. He was the only voice I heard on ‘half of my hometown,’ and when he comes in, it’s just like hitting the Knoxville city limits. So to be able to go out to those cities like the place he and I grew up with an artist who’s accomplished what he has, it’s a lot like going home.”
See the full I Go Back Tour dates below:
March 25: State College, PA @ Bryce Jordan CenterMarch 30: Wichita, KS @ INTRUST Bank ArenaApril 1: Oklahoma City, OK @ Paycom CenterApril 6: Uncasville, CT @ Mohegan Sun ArenaApril 8: Wilkes-Barre Township, PA @ Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey PlazaApril 12: Birmingham, AL @ Legacy Arena at the BJCCApril 14: Jacksonville, FL @ Daily’s Place AmphitheaterApril 16: Ft. Lauderdale, FL @ Tortuga*April 25: Lexington, KY @ Rupp ArenaApril 27: Greenville, SC @ Bon Secours Wellness ArenaApril 29: Greensboro, NC @ Greensboro ColiseumMay 4: Moline, IL @ Vibrant Arena at The MarkMay 6: Grand Rapids, MI @ Van Andel ArenaMay 9: Grand Forks, ND @ The Alerus CenterMay 11: Sioux Falls, SD @ Denny Sanford Premier CenterMay 13: Lincoln, NE @ Pinnacle Bank ArenaMay 18: Fort Wayne, IN @ Allen County War Memorial ColiseumMay 20: Evansville, IN @ Ford CenterMay 25: Charleston, SC @ Credit One StadiumMay 27: Orange Beach, AL@ The WharfJuly 22: Des Moines, IA @ Hy-Vee Indy Race**previously announced
The hour Swifties have been breathlessly waiting for finally arrived on Tuesday morning (Nov. 15) when presale tickets for some dates for Taylor Swift‘s 2023 Eras U.S. stadium tour went on sale at 10 a.m. And, as you might expect of Taylor’s first tour in five years, the rush to secure a golden ticket was intense.
In fact, Downdetector reporting a surge in outages on the Ticketmaster site around the time of the on-sale; spokespeople for Ticketmaster and Swift had not returned a request for comment about reported outages at press time. Billboard attempted to log into the TM site and app several times during the on-sale and was unable to load the site amid reports that it was freezing and/or crashing despite fans having pre-sale codes.
A spokesperson for TM told CNN Business Tuesday morning that the “site is not down” and that “people are actively purchasing tickets… Fans who have received a code to the TaylorSwiftTix Presale should login and access the queue through the link they received via text rather than entering through the Ticketmaster homepage. This will ensure an optimal shopping experience.”
The reaction to the reported lags and difficulties securing tickets were well-documented by frustrated Swifties — including this writer’s college-aged daughter, who reported from Vermont that “everyone here is freaking out about getting Taylor Swift tickets… no one is getting them… in my lecture if you looked around everyone was on Ticketmaster.”
“The Taylor Swift ticket presale is proof that the Hunger Games could actually happen in real life,” read one tweet about the frenzied sale, while another frustrated clicker was less polite, writing, “if anything will force ticketmaster to finally get their s–t together it’ll be hundreds of thousands of angry taylor swift fans willing to murder someone in cold blood for eras tour tickets.”
The singer added 17 more shows to the now-52-date tour that will celebrate all 10 of her studio albums released since 2006. The massive outing will now set up shop in some cities for two or three nights, including multiple nights in Glendale (AZ), Las Vegas, Arlington (TX), Tampa, Houston, Atlanta, Nashville, Chicago, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Minneapolis, Cincinnati, Kansas City, Denver and Los Angeles (where she’ll play five nights). The U.S. leg is currently slated to kick off on March 18 at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona.
While some tried to have a good attitude about the issues, including one who wrote, “taylor swift really wasn’t lying when she said ‘i vowed not to cry anymore if we survived the great war’ about getting tickets for the eras tour,” others were livid that things didn’t work out as they’d expected. “Can Taylor Swift fans have a redo on tickets sales?” one asked. “@Ticketmaster clearly wasn’t prepared for this amount of traffic, and all verified fans with actual presale codes are unable to buy tickets. The site has done nothing but crash.” The TM Fan Support account posted an update nearly 11 a.m. ET, telling Swifties, “We are aware fans may be experiencing intermittent issues with the site and are urgently working to resolve.”
Though some joyfully posted about scoring the sought-after tickets, others just wondered what was going on. “Did anyone actually get Taylor Swift tickets,” a fan wondered. Swift hasn’t hit the road since 2018, when she launched her best-selling Reputation Tour. She had planned to go out again after dropping 2019’s Lover for a series of stadium shows she dubbed Lover Fest, but the gigs were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
For those keeping score at home, this means that Tay has six albums-worth of material that she’s never played live — if you include the previously unreleased vault tracks on 2021’s Fearless (Taylor’s Version) and Red (Taylor’s Version). Studio albums Folklore, Evermore and, of course her latest, Midnights, which have all also been released in the time between Lover and the Eras Tour.
Check out some of the reactions to the “Eras” presale madness below.
We are aware fans may be experiencing intermittent issues with the site and are urgently working to resolve.— Ticketmaster Fan Support (@TMFanSupport) November 15, 2022
did anyone actually get taylor swift tickets— gill (@contactabrother) November 15, 2022
Can Taylor Swift fans have a redo on tickets sales? @Ticketmaster clearly wasn’t prepared for this amount of traffic, and all verified fans with actual presale codes are unable to buy tickets. The site has done nothing but crash.— Lexi (@LexiHernnandez) November 15, 2022
if anything will force ticketmaster to finally get their shit together it’ll be hundreds of thousands of angry taylor swift fans willing to murder someone in cold blood for eras tour tickets— james 🕛| fan account (@fearIessummers) November 15, 2022
The Taylor Swift ticket presale is proof that the hunger games could actually happen in real life— Abi (@abiwilk_) November 15, 2022
ticketmaster: we expect the demand for taylor swift tickets to be overwhelming 🙂ticketmaster when the demand for taylor swift tickets were, in fact, overwhelming: pic.twitter.com/ZYhJq52R1F— syd 🪩 (@sydstweeter) November 15, 2022
taylor swift really wasn’t lying when she said “i vowed not to cry anymore if we survived the great war” about getting tickets for the eras tour— The Eras Tour (@tswifterastour) November 15, 2022
hot take: ticket access should’ve been determined based on how much bullying you endured for being “The Taylor Swift girl” growing up— gracie 🦋 (@soitgoesgrace) November 15, 2022
If you couldn’t score tickets to Taylor Swift‘s 2023 Eras Tour, don’t fret. On Friday (Nov. 11), the singer added 17 more shows to the 27-date U.S. tour that will celebrate all 10 of her studio albums released since 2006.
After adding 8 more shows last week, Swift tacked on 17 more this morning, double (and tripling) down on some of the cities on the list, including Glendale (AZ), Las Vegas, Arlington (TX), Tampa, Houston, Atlanta, Nashville, Chicago, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Minneapolis, Cincinnati, Kansas City, Denver and Los Angeles.
With the addition of the new gigs to the now-52-date outing, Swift will now set up shop for five nights in L.A. at SoFi Stadium, where she is currently slated to wrap up her most extensive U.S. stadium run to date with shows on Aug. 3, 4, 5, 8 and 9.
Swift hasn’t hit the road since 2018, when she launched her best-selling Reputation Tour. She had planned on performing again after the release of her 2019 record Lover in a concert series called Lover Fest, but canceled the shows due to the COVID-19 pandemic. For those keeping score at home, this means that Tay has six albums-worth of new material that she’s never played live — if you include the previously unreleased vault tracks on 2021’s Fearless (Taylor’s Version) and Red (Taylor’s Version). Studio albums Folklore, Evermore and, of course her latest, Midnights, which have all also been released in the time between Lover and the Eras Tour.
Check out the new dates and opening acts below (check Swift’s Story for the full roster).
March 17 — Glendale, AZ @ State Farm Stadium (Paramore, GAYLE)
March 24 — Las Vegas, NV @ Allegiant Stadium (beabadoobee, GAYLE)
March 31 — Arlington, TX @ AT&T Stadium (Muna, GAYLE)
April 13 — Tampa, FL @ Raymond James Stadium (beabadoobee, GAYLE)
April 21 — Houston, TX @ NRG Stadium (beabadoobee, Gracie Abrams)
April 23 — Houston, TX @ NRG Stadium (beabadoobee, Gracie Abrams)
April 30 — Atlanta, GA @ Mercedes-Benz Stadium (Muna, GAYLE)
May 7 — Nashville, TN @ Nissan Stadium (Phoebe Bridgers, Gracie Abrams)
June 4 — Chicago, IL @ Soldier Field (Muna, Gracie Abrams)
June 9 — Detroit, MI @ Ford Field (girl in red, Gracie Abrams)
June 16 — Pittsburgh, PA @ Acrisure Stadium (girl in red, Gracie Abrams)
June 23 — Minneapolis, MN @ U.S. Bank Stadium (girl in red, Gracie Abrams)
June 30 — Cincinnati, OH @ Paycor Stadium (Muna, Gracie Abrams)
July 7 — Kansas City, MO @ GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium (Muna, Gracie Abrams)
July 14 — Denver, CO @ Empower Field at Mile High (Muna, Gracie Abrams)
Aug. 8 — Los Angeles, CA @ SoFi Stadium (Haim, Gracie Abrams)
Aug. 9 — Los Angeles, CA @ SoFi Stadium (Haim, GAYLE)
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