Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour is the first to ever gross $1billion
nme.comTaylor Swift‘s ‘Eras’ Tour has officially become the first tour to gross $1billion (£796million).According to Pollstar, a live entertainment trade magazine, Swift has now set the record for the highest-grossing tour of all time.
The popstar hit the ten-digit threshold after sixty shows and eight months of being on the road.Previously, Sir Elton John held the record for the highest-grossing tour, with his ‘Farewell Yellow Brick Road’ tour earning $939million.
The legend achieved this number with 328 shows and five years of touring from September 8, 2018 to July 8, 2023.The magazine also claimed that Swift sold a “mind-boggling 4.3 million tickets at an average ticket price of $238.95”, and calculated that the singer grossed roughly $17.3million for an average show for the current leg of her tour.Pollstar estimated the sales based on their box office reports, along with “ticket prices in each market”, “record capacities at each venue” and “comparable tour data”.
The figure doesn’t include The Eras Tour movie (which earned roughly $250million), or tour merchandise (which garnered Swift another $200million).Swift has recently spoken about the constant comparisons between her tour and Beyoncé‘s ‘Renaissance’ tour and concert film: “Clearly it’s very lucrative for the media and stan culture to pit two women against each other”She also praised Beyoncé as “the most precious gem of a person — warm and open and funny.
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