The 1989 World Tour

, 2015

The 1989 World Tour

Tour by Taylor Swift
Location	Asia Europe North America Oceania
Associated album	1989
Start date	May 5, 2015 (2015-05-05)
End date	December 12, 2015 (2015-12-12)
No. of shows	85
Supporting acts	James Bay Ellie Goulding Haim Vance Joy Shawn Mendes Rae Morris John Newman
Attendance	2.28 million
Box office	US$250.7 million
Taylor Swift concert chronology

The 1989 World Tour was the fourth concert tour by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, in support of her fifth studio album, 1989 (2014). Swift announced the tour's first dates in North America, Europe, Japan, and Ocenia in November and December 2014. She announced additional dates for Singapore and China in June 2015, and a final announcement of the third show in Melbourne was made in July 2015.

The tour took seven months to plan to plan before three months of rehearsals. As with her previous tours, Swift was involved in the tour's planning and stage design. She aimed to create an intimate experience for concertgoers, which she found challenging for shows held in stadiums. The set list included songs predominantly taken from 1989, with additional songs from Swift's older albums transformed into a more synth-oriented production. For different shows, she incorporated a random song from her back catalog. The tour began on May 5, 2015, in Tokyo, Japan, and concluded on December 12, 2015, in Melbourne, Australia, running 85 shows. For many of the shows, Swift invited special guests onstage with her including musicians, actors/actresses, athletes, and models whom the media called her "squad".

The world's highest-grossing tour of 2015, the 1989 World Tour sold over 2.278 million tickets and grossed over US$250.7 million. It was acclaimed by critics, receiving praise for Swift's stage presence and connection with the audience. Swift's appearances with an array of special guests, meanwhile, attracted commentary regarding her new image as a pop star—having been known as a country singer-songwriter—and her sense of authenticity that she had maintained. On December 20, 2015, Swift released a concert film entitled The 1989 World Tour Live in partnership with Apple Music. It was filmed at the November 28, 2015 show at ANZ Stadium in Sydney, Australia, and features additional scenes of special guests from other shows throughout North America and Europe.

Background and development

Swift performing in Detroit, Michigan in May 2015

Taylor Swift released her fifth studio album, 1989, on October 27, 2014. The synth-pop album was Swift's first album marketed as pop music, departing from her image as a country artist. It was a commercial success, selling over one million copies within first week of release in the United States. On November 3, 2014, via her social media accounts, Swift announced the first details of her world tour in support of her fifth studio album, 1989. Australian singer Vance Joy was announced to be an opening act, and tickets would go sale on for North American fans from November 14.

In a November 2014 interview with Time magazine, Swift said that the set list would primarily consist of songs from 1989. For songs taken from her older catalog, she wanted the songs to fit in with the synth-heavy production of 1989 while keeping the "live feel" of live performances. Swift, as always, was heavily involved in the tour's planning and production design. She acknowledged the challenge of playing in stadiums, expressing her goal for "those people in the very top row [to] feel like they got an intimate, personal experience". The following month in an interview with KIIS-FM, she revealed that she knew what the stage would look like, as well as knowing that "all the fans seem to be saying that they really don't want any song [from 1989] left off the setlist".

Swift first announced the North American and European dates in November 2014. The tour was set to kick off in Bossier City, Louisiana on May 20, 2015, and conclude in Tampa, Florida on October 31, 2015. Additional shows were held across the United States, Canada, England, Scotland, Germany, and the Netherlands. A month after announcing the first dates, Swift added further shows, visiting Japan, Australia and New Zealand. The first date of the tour would be in Japan in May 2015, and the shows in Australia and New Zealand would take place in November–December 2015. In June 2015, Swift announced further shows in Asia, visiting China and Singapore in November 2015. The following month, Swift announced a third show in Melbourne, Australia, which would also wrap up the tour on December 12, 2015. Opening acts for the tour included Vance Joy, Shawn Mendes, Haim, James Bay, Ellie Goulding, and John Newman.

The tour took seven months to plan before three months of music rehearsals, four weeks of stage rehearsals and ten days of two-a-days dress rehearsals. It traveled with 26 semi-trailer trucks and 11 buses carrying 146 people from city to city. Additionally, about 125–150 people were hired in each city to help with the load in and stage setup. The entire load in and stage setup process took between 6 and 8 hours for arenas, with stadiums requiring an additional day. Swift chose two designs for the trucks' vinyl wrap; 13 carry one design and 13 have the other. Concertgoers were given light-up bracelets that could be programmed to change color throughout the show, a practice that was also later implemented in Swift's Reputation Stadium Tour.

Concert synopsis

The performance of "How You Get the Girl" was accompanied by a Singin' in the Rain-inspired choreography.

The shows featured a nearly identical set list, with the exception of "You Are in Love" (a 1989 deluxe album track), and different shows had different guest stars intertwined between Swift's performances. The concert began with black-and-white projections of skyscrapers, which subsequently served as the backdrop to the performance of "Welcome to New York". Swift them emerged from beneath the stage to sing "Welcome to New York", and subsequently "New Romantics", surrounded by a dozen of male dancers. For the followup performance of "Blank Space", Swift sang the song while her dancers were hidden under shadowboxes, before erupting into a call-and-response climax where Swift stroke a golf club against a black lacquer cane. Swift proceeded with an industrial rock-oriented version of "I Knew You Were Trouble", which she performed as the shirtless male dancers performed a sensual choreography.

After the performance of "I Wish You Would", Swift appeared in a glowing pink polka-dot dress to perform "How You Get the Girl", accompanied by a choreography inspired by the 1952 musical Singin' in the Rain performed by the male dancers twirling neon umbrellas. The show continued with "I Know Places", during which Swift wore thigh-high black boots and garters. The song's intense lyrics and production was accompanied by a performance of Swift being chased by the masked dancers through multiple mobile doors, as she sang "They are the hunters / We are the foxes." After the song ended, Swift performed "All You Had to Do Was Stay", which was followed by either "You Are in Love" or a customized number that Swift performed differently at several shows. "All You Had to Do Was Stay" was excluded from the set list for several shows. Prior to performing "Clean", Swift shared with her audiences about her lessons in love and personal life she had learned. After "Clean", Swift performed a synth-oriented version of "Love Story" while standing on an elevated platform that whisked around the stadium.

Swift proceeded with "Style", during which she performed while strutting down the runway-styled stage in a sparkling dress, and "This Love". For the performance of "Bad Blood", Swift dressed in a top-to-toe black leather suit. She then performed a rock version of "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" on an electric guitar, in an intense atmosphere as she slouched and hunched with her hair messed up. After that, Swift emerged from beneath the stage again, and performed a mashup of "Enchanted" and "Wildest Dreams" on a sparkling piano. She followed with "Out of the Woods", which she performed in a sparkling bodysuit as giant paper planes flew overhead. The show concluded with "Shake It Off", during which Swift and the dancers danced on a spinning platform above the crowd, as fireworks and confetti dashed across the venue.

Adjustments and special guests

Throughout the tour, Swift invited special guests on different shows. She invited actor Matt LeBlanc, comedian Chris Rock and model Sean O'Pry on the August 22, 2015, Los Angeles show (left); and rapper Wiz Khalifa on the September 9, 2015, Houston show (right).

For different shows, Swift replaced "You Are in Love" with "Wonderland", another 1989 deluxe album track, or songs from her earlier albums. The songs included "Should've Said No" (from 2006's Taylor Swift); "You Belong with Me", "Fifteen" and "Fearless" (from 2008's Fearless); "Mean", "Sparks Fly" and "Mine" (from 2010's Speak Now); "Holy Ground", "All Too Well" and "Red" (from 2012's Red). During the second show in Santa Clara, California on August 15, 2015, Swift dedicated "Never Grow Up" (from 2010's Speak Now) to her godson, the second child of her friend, actress Jaime King.

A feature of the 1989 World Tour that attracted media attention was its array of unannounced special guests that Swift invited onstage with her. Swift explained during an interview with Apple Music's Beats 1 Radio that, since her fans could have expected what the show would look like through social media posts prior to attending, she wanted to incorporate an element of surprise. "They know the set list, they know the costumes, they've looked it up. That presented me with an interesting issue. I love the element of surprise… so going into this tour, having people pop on stage that you didn't expect to see." Though Swift had invited musicians onstage with her during previous tours, she this time invited singers, models, athletes, and actors/actresses across "every type of field". A notable example included the show at London's Hyde Park in July 2015, when models Martha Hunt, Kendall Jenner, Karlie Kloss, Gigi Hadid, and Cara Delevingne joined Swift onstage, which was noted by the media as Swift's "squad"—her representation of her newly established feminist identity. Some of the guests had been planned beforehand, and some others were invited on a whim; for example, Swift asked singer John Legend to join her onstage only 40 minutes prior to showtime, after spotting him in the audience.

As the tour went on, special guests ranged from Hollywood actress Julia Roberts to counterculture figure Joan Baez. The BBC observed that while these special guests were well appreciated by Swift's fans, it gave the impression to others that Swift did so to prove her star power of her new image as a pop star—having abandoned her previous image as a country artist. In doing so, Swift's sense of authenticity began to slip while her global fame continued to expand. Kristy Fairclough, a professor in popular culture and film, commented: Her shifting aesthetic and allegiances appear confusing in an overall narrative that presents Taylor Swift as the centre of the cultural universe. She has often presented an underdog status, but for all of the qualities that make audiences root for her, there are others that make them question her – and these are ones that she can't easily shift away from. As a globally famous, attractive, thin, white, very wealthy woman, she is a profoundly unsympathetic underdog." When the tour ended, Swift acknowledged that "people might need a break from [her]".

Critical reception

Swift performing "Style" strutting down the runway

The 1989 World Tour received positive reviews. Praise centered on the elaborate stage production and Swift's stage presence. Vice's Eric Sundermann appreciated Swift's ability to connect with her audiences, saying: "She has built a career on making music that’s suited for the fabric of our lives, so it makes sense that her show is engineered to be the best night of your life." Jon Caramanica writing for The New York Times acknowledged Swift's comfortable performance onstage. Rolling Stone critic Rob Sheffield appreciated the reworked versions of Swift's older songs, and felt that Swift was pushing for an even more spectacular show than her much-praised previous tour Red, writing: "Taking the easy way would have been 100 percent good enough. It just wasn’t what she wanted to do. Instead, she wanted to push a little harder and make a gloriously epic pop mess like this." In a similarly enthusiastic review, Kevin Coffrey from the Omaha World-Herald observed how the stage production complemented to the songs: "Her show is on a level unlike anything I’ve ever seen."

Paige Allen from The Sun Chronicle was positive towards Swift's performance, but felt that she alone could carry the show without opening acts and special guests. Hunter Hauk of The Dallas Morning News also deemed the opening acts "forgettable", but was impressed by Swift's natural performance onstage. In a review of the Glasgow show, David Pollock from The Independent lauded Swift's energetic performance and described the show as a "resonantly feminist show which emphasises a fun, heartfelt message over polemic". Reviewing the tour's Sydney show, Bernard Zuel from the Sydney Morning Herald gave the tour a four-and-a-half-stars score. Zuel lauded the show as "one of the most spectacular stadium shows" they had ever seen, and praised Swift's stage presence for creating a lively and euphoric energy. Also reviewing the Sydney show, Elle Hunt of The Guardian gave it a perfect five-over-five-stars score, asserting that it was a reminder of Swift's emotional engagement through her songs as her greatest asset that "has won her enormous global fandom".

Commercial reception

Ticket sales

Apart from the 1989 songs, Swift performed reworked versions of her older material. She performed a synth version of "Love Story" (left) and a rock version of "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" (right).

Pre-sales for European shows started on November 4, and public on-sale started on November 7 (tickets for London were sold later on November 10). First round of pre-sales on selected North American shows started on November 7 and general sales for fans in North America started from November 14, 2014. Australia started from December 12, 2014; Japan started from December 13, 2014; Singapore and Shanghai started from June 30, 2015. Swift was the sixth-most-searched artist on Ticketmaster in 2014.

Due to high demand, sellout shows occurred frequently and, according to year-end boxscore data, the tour had an attendance of 100%. In St. Louis, Swift was originally scheduled to perform on October 13 and 14, 2015, but after adding Houston to the schedule, one of the St. Louis shows was dropped and the other was rescheduled to September 28, 2015, with tickets going on sale on January 30, 2015. However, tickets for the St. Louis show was sold out within minutes, resulting in a second date being added there on September 29 at the same venue. Due to massive demand, Swift added more dates to the European leg, one for Cologne and one for Dublin. Swift added one more Dublin show after six minutes when the first show sold out, and tickets for both concerts sold out within 55 minutes.

In Australia, over 30,000 tickets for the first show (December 11, 2015) in Melbourne, at AAMI Park were sold out in less than an hour. Soon after, Swift announced extra dates for Melbourne and Adelaide. Due to popular demand, in July 2015, Swift added a third Melbourne show after the first two shows were sold out. Swift became the first female artist to play three shows at AAMI Park.

In January 2015, Forbes reported that the 1989 World Tour was one of the most expensive concert tours of 2015 on the secondary market. In the United States, the average ticket price was $380, and the cheapest date was the show in Fargo, North Dakota on October 12, 2015, where the average ticket price was $182.95 with a get-in of $79. The show on June 29, 2015 in Dublin was the most expensive European date, where the average ticket price was $285, with a get-in price of $198. The Sydney show had the cheapest get-in price for Taylor Swift tickets in Australia, at AU$130 (US$100). The most expensive show was the final concert in Melbourne on December 12, 2015, with a get-in price of AU$249 (US$193). In total, the 1989 World Tour averaged at about $392 per concert, a 123% increase from Swift's previous world tour, the Red Tour (2012-13).

Boxscore

Swift performing "Out of the Woods"

The tour topped the Billboard Hot Tours chart with Swift's first five shows from the North American run (May 20 – June 6, 2015, excluding Baton Rouge) which generated a total of US$16.8 million from 149,708 ticket sales. It topped the Billboard Hot Tours chart for the second week, earning $15.2 million with a total of 129,962 tickets sold from three shows in Charlotte and Philadelphia. By August 1, 2015, the tour had grossed US$86.2 million, at 20 performances in the North America with 771,460 tickets sold at seven arenas and nine stadiums. On September 9, Billboard reported that the tour had grossed over US$130 million, with 1.1 million tickets sold. The 1989 World Tour surpassed Swift's Red Tour as her highest-grossing by October 2015, when Billboard reported that the tour had grossed over US$173 million. The tour also returned to number one on the Hot Tours chart, becoming Swift's sixth time top top the chart in 2015, thanks to ticket sales totaling $13.6 million from the shows in Toronto, St. Louis and Des Moines.

After finishing the North American leg in Tampa, the tour had grossed more than US$217 million with 71 shows, surpassing One Direction's On the Road Again Tour to become the highest-grossing Pop tour of 2015. The two shows at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey ranked at number eight on Billboard's list of the "Top 25 Boxscores", published in December 2015. Six other shows on this list were the shows in Santa Clara, Foxborough, Philadelphia, Chicago, Tokyo, and Washington, D.C. After concluding in Melbourne, the tour grossed over US$250 million and became the world's highest-grossing tour in 2015, as reported by Pollstar's "2015 Year-End Top 20 Worldwide Tours". "2015 Year-End Top 100 Worldwide Tours", It was also the highest-grossing North American tour of 2015. Specially, the 1989 World Tour grossed over US$199.4 million in North America alone, breaking the previous all-time high of $162 million set by the Rolling Stones in 2005. Two shows in Tokyo ranked at number nine on Pollstar's list of "2015 Year-End Top 100 International Boxoffice". Other shows appearing on this list were the shows in Melbourne, Sydney, Shanghai and Brisbane. The 1989 World Tour also had 24 position on another list of Pollstar – "2015 Year-End Top 200 Concert Grossed [in North America]" – with the highest position of the tour, which ranked at number five, was two shows in East Rutherford; and the lowest position, which was number 160, was two shows in Denver.

Concert film

The concert film was filmed at the ANZ Stadium in Sydney (pictured)

The film was supported by a concert film, titled The 1989 World Tour - Live. It was released on December 20, 2015, exclusively via Apple Music. Directed by Jonas Åkerlund, it was filmed at the Sydney concert of the 1989 World Tour, held at ANZ Stadium on November 28, 2015, where she performed in front of over 76,000 people. Prior to the show, concertgoers were informed that the show would be filmed for a commercial purpose.

On December 13, 2015, Swift announced she had partnered with Apple Music to release The 1989 World Tour - Live in one week's time. It contains over two hours of concert, interview, and never-before seen backstage and rehearsal footage with some of the musical and surprise guests from previous shows. Celebrities making appearances in the film include Mick Jagger, Jason Derulo, Idina Menzel, Joan Baez, Justin Timberlake, Alison Krauss, Miranda Lambert, Natalie Maines, Lisa Kudrow, Wiz Khalifa, and Alanis Morissette. Scenes from the film were compiled for the music video for "New Romantics", the seventh and final single from the album. As of December 2020, the film is no longer available on Apple Music for unknown reasons.

Set list

This set list is representative of the show on May 5, 2015, in Tokyo. It is not representative of all concerts for the duration of the tour.

1. "Welcome to New York"
2. "New Romantics"
3. "Blank Space"
4. "I Knew You Were Trouble"
5. "I Wish You Would"
6. "How You Get the Girl"
7. "I Know Places"
8. "All You Had to Do Was Stay"
9. "You Are in Love"
10. "Clean"
11. "Love Story"
12. "Style"
13. "This Love"
14. "Bad Blood"
15. "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together"
16. "Enchanted" / "Wildest Dreams"
17. "Out of the Woods"

Encore

18. "Shake It Off"

Notes

The following songs were performed by Swift in place of "You Are In Love":

• "Wonderland" (from 1989): During the shows in Las Vegas, Bossier City, Pittsburgh, and the second performance in Cologne
• "Holy Ground" (from Red): During the second show in Dublin
• "You Belong with Me" (from Fearless): During the second shows in East Rutherford, Washington, Denver, Columbus, Los Angeles, Adelaide, and Shanghai; the first shows in Toronto, Nashville, Kansas City, St. Louis, Foxborough, and Singapore; and the shows in Des Moines and Salt Lake City
• "Fifteen" (from Fearless) During the first shows in Chicago, Omaha, Denver, Saint Paul, and Edmonton; the second shows in Melbourne, Toronto, St. Louis, Foxborough, Nashville, Kansas City, and Glendale; the third show in Los Angeles; and the shows in Indianapolis, Lexington, Arlington, Fargo, Miami, Greensboro, Atlanta, and Tampa
• "Mean" (from Speak Now): During the second shows in Chicago and Saint Paul, the fifth show in Los Angeles, and the shows in Seattle and Houston
• "Sparks Fly" (from Speak Now): During the show in Vancouver
• "Fearless" (from Fearless): During the second show in Edmonton, the first show in Omaha, and the show in San Diego
• "Should've Said No" (from Taylor Swift): During the first show in Santa Clara
• "Never Grow Up" (from Speak Now): During the second show in Santa Clara
• "Ronan" (non-album song): During the first show in Glendale
• "All Too Well" (from Red): During the first show in Los Angeles
• "Red" (from Red): During the first show in Columbus
• "Mine" (from Speak Now): During the show in Brisbane
• "Long Live" (from Speak Now): During the third show in Melbourne

Special guests

Below is the complete list of special guests who performed with Swift on the 1989 World Tour

• May 15, 2015 – Las Vegas: "Tenerife Sea" with Ed Sheeran
• May 30, 2015 – Detroit: "Radioactive" with Dan Reynolds of Imagine Dragons; Martha Hunt & Gigi Hadid.
• June 6, 2015 – Pittsburgh: "Pontoon" with Little Big Town.
• June 12, 2015 – Philadelphia: "Cool Kids" with Echosmith; Cara Delevingne & Mariska Hargitay.
• June 13, 2015 – Philadelphia: "Fight Song" with Rachel Platten; Mariska Hargitay.
• June 27, 2015 – London: Gigi Hadid, Kendall Jenner, Serena Williams, Martha Hunt, Karlie Kloss and Cara Delevingne.
• July 10, 2015 – East Rutherford: "Can't Feel My Face" with The Weeknd; Heidi Klum and United States women's national soccer team; Lily Aldridge, Lena Dunham, Gigi Hadid and Hailee Steinfeld.
• July 11, 2015 – East Rutherford: "Jealous" with Nick Jonas; Gigi Hadid, Martha Hunt, Lily Aldridge, Candice Swanepoel, Behati Prinsloo, Karlie Kloss, and Uzo Aduba.
• July 13, 2015 – Washington, D.C.: "Royals" with Lorde.
• July 14, 2015 – Washington, D.C.: "Want to Want Me" with Jason Derulo.
• July 18, 2015 – Chicago: "Honey, I'm Good." with Andy Grammer; Serayah.
• July 19, 2015 – Chicago: "Take Your Time" with Sam Hunt; Andreja Pejić & Lily Donaldson.
• July 24, 2015 – Foxborough: "Shut Up and Dance" with Walk the Moon.
• July 25, 2015 – Foxborough: "Classic" with MKTO.
• August 1, 2015 – Vancouver: "Am I Wrong" with Nico & Vinz.
• August 8, 2015 – Seattle: "Trap Queen" with Fetty Wap; Ciara and Russell Wilson.
• August 14, 2015 – Santa Clara: "Worth It" with Fifth Harmony.
• August 15, 2015 – Santa Clara: "Black Magic" with Little Mix; Joan Baez and Julia Roberts.
• August 21, 2015 – Los Angeles: "Counting Stars" with Ryan Tedder of OneRepublic; Kobe Bryant presenting Swift with a banner hung on the Staples Center rafters in honor of Swift's 16 sold out shows, the most of any recording artist at the arena.
• August 22, 2015 – Los Angeles: "White Horse" with Uzo Aduba; Chris Rock, Matt LeBlanc and Sean O'Pry; "Doubt" and "Family Affair" with Mary J. Blige.
• August 24, 2015 – Los Angeles: "Goodbye Earl" with Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks; Ellen DeGeneres; "You Oughta Know" with Alanis Morissette.
• August 25, 2015 – Los Angeles: "Dreams" with Beck and St. Vincent; "All of Me" with John Legend.
• August 26, 2015 – Los Angeles: "Good for You" with Selena Gomez; "Smelly Cat" with Lisa Kudrow; "Mirrors" with Justin Timberlake.
• August 29, 2015 – San Diego: "Cheerleader" with OMI; "Complicated" with Avril Lavigne.
• September 9, 2015 – Houston: "See You Again" with Wiz Khalifa.
• September 16, 2015 – Indianapolis: "If I Die Young" with The Band Perry.
• September 18, 2015 – Columbus: "Cool Kids" with Sydney Sierota of Echosmith.
• September 21, 2015 – Kansas City: "Every Mile a Memory" with Dierks Bentley.
• September 25, 2015 – Nashville: "Love Me Like You Mean It" with Kelsea Ballerini; "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" with Steven Tyler of Aerosmith; "When You Say Nothing at All" with Alison Krauss.
• September 26, 2015 – Nashville: "Bleeding Love" with Leona Lewis; "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" with Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones.
• September 29, 2015 – St. Louis: "The Fix" with Nelly, and "Hot in Herre" with Nelly and Haim. To celebrate Haim's last night on the tour, Swift invited them to join her onstage as back-up dancers for Nelly.
• October 2, 2015 – Toronto: "John Cougar, John Deere, John 3:16" and "Somebody Like You" with Keith Urban.
• October 3, 2015 – Toronto: "Boom Clap" with Charli XCX.
• October 17, 2015 – Arlington: "Love Me like You Do" with Ellie Goulding.
• October 21, 2015 – Greensboro: "Little Red Wagon" with Miranda Lambert.
• October 24, 2015 – Atlanta: "Talking Body" with Tove Lo.
• October 27, 2015 – Miami: Dwyane Wade presenting Swift a '13' numbered jersey in honor of Swift's lucky number and his 13th season with the Miami Heat; "Give Me Everything" with Pitbull; "Livin' la Vida Loca" with Ricky Martin.
• October 31, 2015 – Tampa: "Here" with Alessia Cara; "Let It Go" with Idina Menzel. During "Style", before "Let It Go" was performed, Swift wore an Olaf costume while Menzel wore her in-voice character Elsa, both from Frozen, in honor of Halloween.

Shows

List of tour dates, showing attendance and revenue

Date	City	Country	Venue	Opening acts	Attendance (Tickets sold / Available)	Revenue
Asia
May 5, 2015	Tokyo	Japan	Tokyo Dome	—	100,320 / 100,320	$10,586,828
May 6, 2015
North America
May 15, 2015	Las Vegas	United States	City of Rock	—	—	—
May 20, 2015	Bossier City		CenturyLink Center	Vance Joy	12,459 / 12,459	$1,458,197
May 22, 2015	Baton Rouge		LSU Tiger Stadium	Vance Joy Shawn Mendes	50,227 / 50,227	$4,119,670
May 30, 2015	Detroit		Ford Field		50,703 / 50,703	$5,999,690
June 2, 2015	Louisville		KFC Yum! Center	Vance Joy	16,242 / 16,242	$1,863,281
June 3, 2015	Cleveland		Quicken Loans Arena		15,503 / 15,503	$1,732,041
June 6, 2015	Pittsburgh		Heinz Field	Vance Joy Shawn Mendes	54,801 / 54,801	$5,836,926
June 8, 2015	Charlotte		Time Warner Cable Arena	Vance Joy	15,024 / 15,024	$1,627,798
June 9, 2015	Raleigh		PNC Arena		13,886 / 13,886	$1,653,762
June 12, 2015	Philadelphia		Lincoln Financial Field	Vance Joy Shawn Mendes	101,052 / 101,052	$11,987,816
June 13, 2015
Europe
June 19, 2015	Cologne	Germany	Lanxess Arena	James Bay	29,020 / 29,020	$2,054,690
June 20, 2015
June 21, 2015	Amsterdam	Netherlands	Ziggo Dome		11,166 / 11,166	$800,829
June 23, 2015	Glasgow	United Kingdom	SSE Hydro	Vance Joy	11,021 / 11,021	$1,119,300
June 24, 2015	Manchester		Manchester Arena		14,773 / 14,773	$1,478,760
June 27, 2015	London		Hyde Park	Rae Morris Vance Joy Ellie Goulding John Newman	—	—
June 29, 2015	Dublin	Ireland	3Arena	Vance Joy	25,188 / 25,188	$1,975,510
June 30, 2015
Europe
July 6, 2015	Ottawa	Canada	Canadian Tire Centre	Vance Joy	13,480 / 13,480	$1,325,480
July 7, 2015	Montreal		Bell Centre		14,770 / 14,770	$1,499,040
July 10, 2015	East Rutherford	United States	MetLife Stadium	Vance Joy Shawn Mendes Haim	110,105 / 110,105	$13,423,858
July 11, 2015
July 13, 2015	Washington, D.C.		Nationals Park		85,014 / 85,014	$9,730,596
July 14, 2015
July 18, 2015	Chicago		Soldier Field		110,109 / 110,109	$11,469,887
July 19, 2015
July 24, 2015	Foxborough		Gillette Stadium		116,849 / 116,849	$12,533,166
July 25, 2015
August 1, 2015	Vancouver	Canada	BC Place Stadium	Vance Joy Shawn Mendes	41,463 / 41,463	$4,081,820
August 4, 2015	Edmonton		Rexall Place	Vance Joy	26,534 / 26,534	$2,387,080
August 5, 2015
August 8, 2015	Seattle	United States	CenturyLink Field	Vance Joy Shawn Mendes	55,711 / 55,711	$6,050,643
August 14, 2015	Santa Clara		Levi's Stadium		102,139 / 102,139	$13,031,146
August 15, 2015
August 17, 2015	Glendale		Gila River Arena	Vance Joy	26,520 / 26,520	$3,029,628
August 18, 2015
August 21, 2015	Los Angeles		Staples Center	Vance Joy Haim	70,563 / 70,563	$8,961,681
August 22, 2015
August 24, 2015
August 25, 2015
August 26, 2015
August 29, 2015	San Diego		Petco Park	Vance Joy Shawn Mendes	44,710 / 44,710	$5,475,237
September 4, 2015	Salt Lake City		EnergySolutions Arena	Vance Joy	14,131 / 14,131	$1,589,686
September 5, 2015	Denver		Pepsi Center		27,126 / 27,126	$2,868,991
September 6, 2015
September 9, 2015	Houston		Minute Maid Park	Vance Joy Shawn Mendes	40,122 / 40,122	$5,202,196
September 11, 2015	Saint Paul		Xcel Energy Center	Vance Joy	45,126 / 45,126	$5,514,863
September 12, 2015
September 13, 2015
September 16, 2015	Indianapolis		Bankers Life Fieldhouse		14,010 / 14,010	$1,550,268
September 17, 2015	Columbus		Nationwide Arena		29,936 / 29,936	$3,369,693
September 18, 2015
September 21, 2015	Kansas City		Sprint Center		27,857 / 27,857	$2,967,558
September 22, 2015
September 25, 2015	Nashville		Bridgestone Arena	Vance Joy Haim	28,917 / 28,917	$3,354,844
September 26, 2015
September 28, 2015	St. Louis		Scottrade Center		29,688 / 29,688	$3,452,940
September 29, 2015
October 2, 2015	Toronto	Canada	Rogers Centre	Vance Joy Shawn Mendes	99,283 / 99,283	$8,670,990
October 3, 2015
October 8, 2015	Des Moines	United States	Wells Fargo Arena	Vance Joy	13,969 / 13,969	$1,566,321
October 9, 2015	Omaha		CenturyLink Center Omaha		29,622 / 29,622	$3,121,421
October 10, 2015
October 12, 2015	Fargo		Fargodome		21,067 / 21,067	$2,219,188
October 17, 2015	Arlington		AT&T Stadium	Vance Joy Shawn Mendes	62,630 / 62,630	$7,396,733
October 20, 2015	Lexington		Rupp Arena	Vance Joy	17,084 / 17,084	$1,870,471
October 21, 2015	Greensboro		Greensboro Coliseum		15,079 / 15,079	$1,662,171
October 24, 2015	Atlanta		Georgia Dome	Vance Joy Shawn Mendes	56,046 / 56,046	$6,034,846
October 27, 2015	Miami		American Airlines Arena	Vance Joy	14,044 / 14,044	$1,527,919
October 31, 2015	Tampa		Raymond James Stadium	Vance Joy Shawn Mendes	56,987 / 56,987	$6,202,515
Asia
November 7, 2015	Singapore		Singapore Indoor Stadium	—	17,726 / 17,726	$3,217,569
November 8, 2015
November 10, 2015	Shanghai	China	Mercedes-Benz Arena		37,758 / 37,758	$5,917,348
November 11, 2015
November 12, 2015
Oceania
November 28, 2015	Sydney	Australia	ANZ Stadium	Vance Joy	75,980 / 75,980	$6,571,683
December 5, 2015	Brisbane		Suncorp Stadium		46,881 / 46,881	$4,759,471
December 7, 2015	Adelaide		Adelaide Entertainment Centre		20,090 / 20,090	$2,407,499
December 8, 2015
December 10, 2015	Melbourne		AAMI Park		98,136 / 98,136	$10,421,553
December 11, 2015
December 12, 2015
Total					2,278,647 / 2,278,647 (100%)	$250,733,097

Personnel

Adapted from The 1989 World Tour Book

Show

• Erica Worden – tour manager
• Tree Paine – publicist
• Arthur Kemish – production manager
• Chris Rowe – audio
• Dewey Shepard – stage manager
• Donna Edmondson – hair and make-up
• Jemma Muradian – hair stylist
• Lorrie Turk – make-up artist
• Scott Coraci – video engineer
• Tyce Diorio – choreographer
• Tricia Miranda – assistant choreographer

Band

• Taylor Swift – lead vocals, guitar, electric guitar, piano, keyboard
• David Cook – musical director, keyboards
• Matt Billingslea – drums, electronic percussion
• Amos Heller – bass, synth bass, vocals
• Eliotte Henderson – background vocalist
• Kamilah Marshall – background vocalist
• Michael Meadows – guitars, keyboards, vocals
• Melanie Nyema – background vocalist
• Paul Sidoti – guitar, vocals
• Clare Turton-Derrico – background vocalist
• Dane Laboyrie – trumpet
• Brendan Champion – trombone
• James Mackay – tenor saxophone
• Jimmy Garden – baritone saxophone

Dancers

• Christian Henderson
• Jacob Kodish
• Christian Owens
• Maho Udo
• Austin Spacy
• Mark Villaver
• Nolan Padilla
• Remi Bakkar
• Richard Cutler
• Giuseppe Giofrè
• Robert Green

Wardrobe

• Floyd Williamd
• Joseph Cassell
• Jessica Jones
• Shannon Summers
• Tyler Green
• Todd Cantrell
• Pamela Lewis

Executive producers

• Taylor Swift
• Andrea Swift
• Robert Allen
• Austin Fish

Production designers

• Taylor Swift
• Baz Halpin
• Chris Nyfield

See also

• List of highest-grossing concert tours

External links

• The 1989 World Tour Live at IMDb