LOS ANGELES — Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour is the primary tour to cross the billion-dollar mark, based on Pollstar’s 2023 year-end charts.
Not solely was Swift’s landmark Eras Tour the No. 1 tour each worldwide and in North America, however she additionally introduced in a whopping $1.04 billion with 4.35 million tickets bought throughout 60 tour dates, the live performance commerce publication discovered.
Pollstar information is pulled from field workplace studies, venue capability estimates, historic Pollstar venue ticket gross sales information, and different undefined analysis, collected from Nov. 17, 2022 to Nov. 15, 2023.
Representatives for the publication didn’t instantly make clear in the event that they adjusted previous tour information to match 2023 inflation in naming Swift the primary to interrupt the billion-dollar threshold.
Pollstar additionally discovered that Swift introduced in roughly $200 million in merch gross sales and her blockbuster movie adaptation of the tour, “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour,” has reportedly earned roughly $250 million in gross sales, making it the highest-grossing live performance movie of all time.
According to their estimates, Pollstar predicts a giant 2024 for Swift as properly. The journal initiatives the Eras Tour will as soon as once more attain $1 billion inside their eligibility window, which means Swift is probably going to herald over $2 billion over the span of the tour.
Worldwide, Swift’s tour was adopted by Beyoncé in second, Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band in third, Coldplay in fourth, Harry Styles in fifth, and Morgan Wallen, Ed Sheeran, Pink, The Weeknd and Drake.
In North America, there was the same prime 10: Swift, adopted by Beyoncé, Morgan Wallen, Drake, P!nk, Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band, Ed Sheeran, George Strait, Karol G, and RBD.
Earlier this week, Swift was named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year. Last month, Apple Music named her its artist of the yr; Spotify revealed she was 2023’s most-streamed artist globally, raking in additional than 26.1 billion streams since Jan. 1 and beating Bad Bunny’s three-year report.
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