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Taylor Swift stands on a stage surrounded by a large crowd of fans.
Taylor Swift performing on the Eras Tour at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, on June 24, 2023

Publications and critics have reported on and analyzed the economic, commercial, political and cultural influence of the Eras Tour, the 2023–2024 concert tour by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. Accompanied by a fan frenzy called the Swiftmania, the tour's social effects are considered an effect of Swift's wider influence on the 21st-century popular culture. Pollstar called the tour "The Greatest Show on Earth".[1]

The Eras Tour, as Swift's first tour post the COVID-19 lockdowns, caused an economic demand shock fueled by the public's increased affinity for entertainment. It recorded unprecedented ticket sale registrations across the globe, such as over 22 million customers virtually queueing for the Singapore tickets. The first sale in the United States crashed controversially, drawing censure from bipartisan lawmakers, who proposed implementation of price regulation and anti-scalping laws at state and federal levels. Legal scholar William Kovacic called it the "Taylor Swift policy adjustment".[2] Price gouging due to the tour was highlighted in the national legislatures of Brazil, Ireland, and the UK as well.

Characterized by trickle-down and multiplier effects, elevated commercial activity and economy were reported in cities visited by the tour, which boosted local businesses, the hospitality industry, clothing sales, public transport revenues, and tourism. Fortune estimated the tour's net consumer spending to be $4.6 billion in the US. Cities such as Glendale, Pittsburgh, Minneapolis and Santa Clara renamed themselves to honor Swift; prominent structures such as the Willis Tower, Space Needle, and Houston City Hall paid tributes; and organizations like the Museum of Arts & Design, Arlington Museum of Art, Country Music Hall of Fame, Buhl Planetarium, Carnegie Science Center and Gateway Clipper Fleet hosted events and exhibitions. A number of politicians, such as Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau and Chilean president Gabriel Boric, petitioned Swift to tour their countries.

Beyond sold-out stadiums, the Eras Tour attracted large crowds of ticketless spectators tailgating outside the venues, such as over 60,000 people in Philadelphia. In the mass media, the tour was a major subject of news cycles and social media content, receiving constant press coverage to the point some journalists considered it omnipresent television; critics like Amanda Petrusich and Ben Sisario found the ubiquity of Swift and the tour unrivalled. On record charts, Swift's discography experienced surges in album sales and streams; she became the first living artist to have seven albums in the top 40 of the Billboard 200 and the first to chart six albums in the top 10 of the ARIA Albums Chart. Her 2019 song "Cruel Summer" resurged in popularity and reached the top 10 in various countries for the first time. The concert film of the tour featured an atypical distribution strategy that bypassed major film studios to directly partner with movie theaters and caused a number of other films to shift their release dates.

Demand and geopolitics

American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift is often recognized for her success and cultural impact.[3] Her concert tours have all been increasingly lucrative.[4] After taking a break from touring due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, she announced the sixth headlining concert tour of her career, the Eras Tour, in November 2022.[5]

The first United States leg of the tour was announced in November 2022, with 27 concerts across 20 cities.[6] The Latin American, European, Australian and Asian dates were announced in June 2023, visiting 26 cities; popular demand led Swift to increase the number of tour dates in all the continents multiple times.[7][8] In the end, the Eras Tour became the most expansive tour of Swift's career domestically and globally, with 62 US shows and 84 international shows, for a total of 146 shows.[9]

Boric in 2022
Trudeau in 2019
World leaders such as Gabriel Boric (left) and Justin Trudeau (right) openly requested Swift to bring the Eras Tour to their countries.[10][11]

Some countries that were expected to receive dates for the tour were absent in Swift's announcements in June 2023, drawing dismay and demands from Swifties and officials in those territories. As such, the tour had a political impact.[12] Billboard reported that politicians and government officials were "clamoring for a glimpse of the Eras Tour":[13]

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Filipino drag queen Taylor Sheesh recreating the Eras Tour at the SM Seaside City in Cebu City

Indonesia and the Philippines were not included on the Eras Tour, despite much anticipation.[20][21] Media outlets had reported large crowds of fans gathered in various Philippine malls to watch recreations of the Eras Tour by Taylor Sheesh, a Filipino drag queen and Swift impersonator.[20] Quartz reported that the Indonesian minister of tourism and creative economy, Sandiaga Uno, had taken note of the Eras Tour skipping Indonesia, Southeast Asia's largest economy, and decided to ease the permit process for international touring acts.[21]

Unprecedented demand for the Eras Tour tickets were further reported in countries such as Argentina (three million customers),[22] Australia (four million),[23] Canada (31 million),[24] France (one million),[25] and Singapore (22 million).[26]

Price regulation

Joe Biden in 2021
President Joe Biden pressured ticket platforms into eschewing surprise fees from ticket prices following the Eras Tour fiasco.[27]

In the US, inefficient presale of the Eras Tour tickets by Ticketmaster on November 15, 2022, resulted in the 2022 Ticketmaster controversy.[28] Before the presale, Ticketmaster reported that it received a record-breaking 3.5 million registrations.[29] CNN Business stated that the "astronomical" demand indicated Swift's popularity.[30] On the presale day, Ticketmaster's website crashed and froze due to "historically unprecedented demand".[31] Greg Maffei, chairman of Live Nation Entertainment, said Ticketmaster prepared for 1.5 million verified fans, but 14 million showed up.[32] Ticketmaster also cancelled the November 18 sale due to their inability to meet demand.[33] Swift's fans, upset and enraged with the debacle, accused Ticketmaster of deceit and poor customer service.[34][35][36] The topic soon became a subject of public criticism and political scrutiny, as consumer groups criticized Ticketmaster for its allegedly flawed and incompetent systems.[37][38] US lawmakers, including attorneys general and members of the Congress, took notice of the issue,[39] which became a subject of multiple congressional inquiries.[40] The US Department of Justice opened an antitrust investigation into Live Nation Entertainment and Ticketmaster.[41]

Media publications deemed the controversy a testament to Swift's influence and said it could bode well for the music industry by propelling conversations about economic inequality and antitrust laws in the US.[42][43] Inspired by the fiasco, various US Congress and state legislature members proposed and enacted a string of bills to ban scalping bots and regulate pricing model.[44][45] The US Federal Trade Commission proposed to outlaw junk fees in the country following the controversy, and the National Economic Council, headed by American President Joe Biden, pressed platforms to abandon junk fees in all prices—not just event tickets but for resort bookings and rental costs as well.[27] American legal scholar William Kovacic called the move "the Taylor Swift policy adjustment."[2] According to Carolyn Sloane, assistant professor of economics at the University of California, Riverside, the tour's fiasco spurred mass political action as Swift "has scaled her talent through demographic technology".[44] Following the bipartisan censure of Ticketmaster at a US Senate hearing, Billboard opined that Ticketmaster had the public's despise and thus made an "easy target for rare bipartisan political action".[45] The Washington Post stated the tour fiasco "was so bad it united the parties",[46] whereas CNN, in an article titled "One Nation, Under Swift", said that Swift's fans united the two parties in a way "the Founding Fathers failed to anticipate".[47]

The tour's difficult ticket sales garnered international political attention as well. Forbes reported widespread scalping of the tickets in the United Kingdom, with immediate re-listing on sites like StubHub and Viagogo for extortionate prices.[48][49] Viagogo responded that "the European leg of Taylor Swift's Eras tour has been long anticipated. We've not seen anything like this since the Beatles and with tickets having only just gone on sale, demand is at its peak right now".[50] Reuters reported that the resale prices of Eras Tour tickets were US$1000 more than other touring acts.[51] Kevin Brennan, a Member of Parliament from Cardiff, demanded a debate in the UK House of Commons on ticket scalpers and the government's plans to tackle them.[52] In Ireland, politician Thomas Pringle spoke in the Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish Parliament, criticizing the "rampant price gouging" in Dublin during the tour's stop in the city as "disgraceful display of greed" by local hotels.[53] William Watson, writing for the Financial Post, opined that the lawmakers from the Liberal Party of Canada, including Trudeau, will attempt to "nationalize" the distribution of the tour's tickets in Canada in an attempt to win over Swift's fans for the upcoming elections.[54] In Brazil, more than 10 scalpers were arrested for trying to resell tickets originally priced at around R$6,000 ($1,250 USD) at significantly higher prices. Simone Marquetto, a member of the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies for São Paulo, proposed increasing the maximum prison sentence for scalping from to four years and fines up to 100 times the price set by scalpers.[55]

Economy and commerce

See also: Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic

The Eras Tour fueled the commerce and economies of various cities and territories.[56][57][58] Financial analysts called it the "TSwift Lift" to the economy after the COVID-19 recession.[59] The Wall Street Journal coined the term "Taylornomics" to explain the economics involved in and around the Eras Tour. Economist Mara Klaunig stated that "people are willing to travel far and wide to see [Swift]", making the tour a unique case of economic study.[60] A number of business executives reported the tour's favourable impact on their companies' performance.[61]

Local business

The Federal Reserve credited Swift with boosting the US economy at large.[62] In urban areas, the tour boosted the hospitality industry,[63] including hotels,[64] local businesses and tourism revenues by millions of dollars.[65][66][67] Various restaurants, bars, parks and other businesses organized Swift-themed activities and events, as well as special menus.[68][69] Such Swift-themed eatables and articles quickly ran out of stock in various food outlets and retailers.[60][70] Reports from some cities and regions are listed below:

A view of the Las Vegas Strip.
The tour replenished the economy of Las Vegas to "pre-pandemic levels".[71]
  • The tour's first shows in Glendale were more profitable for local businesses than Super Bowl LVII.[57]
  • The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority credited the tour with restoring the economy of Las Vegas to "pre-pandemic levels".[71]
  • The tour's three-day stop in Tampa caused a huge increase in demand for hotel rooms, car-parking services and clothing stores;[72][73] the concerts generated US$730,000 in taxes for the city.[74][66]
  • According to the Houston First Corporation, the three-night stop at NRG Stadium resulted in Houston's highest hotel revenue week of 2023.[75]
  • All hotel rooms, restaurant reservations, and train tickets were sold out in Boston days before the Eras Tour shows in nearby Foxborough, Massachusetts.[76]
  • Chicago's Eras Tour dates marked the highest hotel occupancy in the city's history,[77] contributing to the state of Illinois recording its highest hotel revenue ever in a fiscal year.[78]
  • Per Booking.com, the average hotel room prices in Pittsburgh, Minneapolis and Kansas City increased three to five folds in anticipation of the tour; the hotel occupancy rate in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania approached 100% and reservation platforms crashed due to web traffic.[79]
  • Eras Tour-related consumer spending in Cincinnati was estimated to be $48 million.[60]
  • Hotel occupancy rates in Santa Clara were at least 98% weeks before the tour arrived to the city.[80]
  • A labor union representing hotel workers from 60 hotels in Los Angeles and Orange counties were at strike since their contracts with the hotels expired on June 30, 2023. A week before the Eras Tour's six Los Angeles concerts, the union protested outside the Hyatt Regency LAX with posters inspired by the Eras Tour aesthetics and an open letter to Swift, which claimed that her concerts make the hotels "a lot of money" and urged her to postpone the concerts in solidarity with the strike.[81][82] A dozen Californian politicians, including Eleni Kounalakis, the Lieutenant Governor of California, signed a petition asking Swift to postpone the concerts.[83] The tour in Los Angeles generated a $320 million boost to the county's gross domestic product (GDP).[84]
  • Swift's shows in Mexico City generated an estimated Mex$1,000,000,000 ($59 million USD) in revenue across the city.[85]
  • Evening Standard reported that, according to data from Barclays, presales for the Eras Tour boosted consumer spending in the UK in July 2023.[86] For the June 2024 dates of the UK leg, hotels in Edinburgh, Liverpool and Cardiff sold out by August 2023.[87]

Civil transport

A light rail car at a station in front of U.S. Bank Stadium.
Revenues of public transport services hiked during the tour. Transport agencies such as the Metro Transit of the Twin Cities extended its rail services for the tour.[88]

CNN labeled Swift a "public transit savior", reporting that transit agencies received a "much-needed" post-pandemic boost, thanks to concert-goers commuting via subways, buses, and trains to and from the Eras Tour venues.[89] The Los Angeles Times reported, cities across the US saw "ridership surge" from the Eras Tour attendees who chose to take transit. In Atlanta, around 140,000 fans took transit to reach the Mercedes-Benz Stadium, tripling the usual ridership. In Chicago, the tour generated 43,000 bus and train trips, resulting in the highest weekly ridership for the transit system since 2019.[90] In cases of inadequacy, special trains were announced for concertgoers with extended service in places such as Minneapolis,[88] Sacramento,[91] Greater Los Angeles,[90] and Mexico City.[92]

Flight bookings to and within Australia peaked around the tour dates, especially arrivals from New Zealand and South Korea.[93] Air New Zealand experienced what it dubbed the "Swift surge"—people rushing to book flights to Australia, where Swift was announced to perform in February 2023. The airline added 14 more flights from Auckland, Wellington, and Christchurch to Sydney and Melbourne.[94][60] Philippine Airlines promoted flights from Manila to Tokyo, Sydney, Melbourne, and Singapore.[95]

Economic theory

The economics of the Eras Tour has been termed "Swiftonomics" by economists and journalists.[53] It was first coined by economic analyst Augusta Saraiva, who stated that the tour's unprecedented ticket sales represented a "post-COVID demand shock" in the US, with consumers prioritizing entertainment over an imminent recession. Economics academic Melissa Kearney wrote that COVID-19 affected the public's views about "what's really important to them, and what brings them joy." Los Angeles Times defined Swiftonomics as a microeconomic theory that explains Swift's supply and demand, and political impact following the COVID-19 pandemic.[96][97] The Chair of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, stated "it's good to see" the Eras Tour helping the American economy but cautioned "stronger growth could lead over time to higher inflation and that would require an appropriate response from monetary policy ... So we'll be watching that carefully and seeing how it evolves over time."[98]

Marina Bay Sands in 2011
The Eras Tour's six-day residency in Singapore is part of the government plan to promote the city as Asia's music capital.[99] Marina Bay Sands sold tickets bundled with hotel stays and other experiences.[100]

The demand shock was also further reported in Argentina and Australia.[101][102] Economists who observed the inflation in Southeast Asia termed it "Swiftflation".[103] Marketing professor Seshan Ramaswami wrote that the Eras Tour is one of the significant steps in a movement involving the Government of Singapore's conscious attempts to expand the demographic reach of the city-state's cultural tourism "to young music fans... From all over Asia and perhaps even the Middle East".[99][104]

According to a survey by online research company QuestionPro, 58% of the Eras Tour attendees were between ages 35 and 64, 37% between ages 18 and 34, and less than 5% under age 18. The tour's economic valuation was also estimated to be $5 billion, higher than the GDP of 50 countries.[105] QuestionPro later updated the estimate to $6.3 billion in the US and Canada. Other economic agencies projected an impact as high as $80 billion globally.[106] Business magazine Fortune reported that fans spent an average $1,300 on tickets, travel, and clothes to attend the tour, implying that the Eras Tour could raise $4.6 billion in consumer spending in the US,[77] and consequentially "save" the US from recession.[107] Similar sentiments were raised by journalists in other countries. The Guardian business columnist Greg Jericho opined that the Eras Tour could save Australia from recession as well.[108] Journalist Swati Pandey wrote, "as recession risks in Australia mount, one unexpected factor could deliver a boost to the economy just when it's under maximum pressure from the Reserve Bank's aggressive interest rate increases: Taylor Swift."[109] The Globe and Mail's Tony Keller claimed Swift is the solution to the issues in the Canadian economy.[110]

Maria Psyllou, economics professor from the University of Birmingham, called the Eras Tour a "complex economic environment". She wrote that the consumers' readiness to spend their money on the tour despite an ongoing global economic deceleration is an example of the trickle-down effect, an economic principle explaining the success of high-income individuals benefitting lower sectors of society, stimulating economic growth and opportunities for a wider spectrum of businesses in turn. Pysllou stated, the Eras Tour shows "the audience’s willingness to allocate their resources to experiences they have missed—travel, entertainment, leisure—during the pandemic" and is "a testament to the potent interplay between culture, economics, and human behavior."[84] Anne Steele and Sarah Krouse from The Wall Street Journal opined that the Eras Tour is an example of "women's multiplier effect", showing how women's entertainment can impact the economy.[111]

Social media

"[Swift's] Eras Tour, which launched in Glendale, Arizona on March 17, hasn't launched a viral moment so much as the tour itself has gone viral, further spreading to every corner of the internet with every successive date. Each stop has dominated the news cycle for days, whether due to its special guests, its surprise songs, its celebrity attendees, its Easter eggs, or its volcanic fan response—even the introduction of a new outfit to Swift's rotation can be headline-worthy."

— Andrew Unterberger, Billboard[112]

The Eras Tour was a social media phenomenon.[113] Various moments and events of and during the tour became topics of news coverage and wide social media engagement.[114] To Horton, it grew into a "mass cultural moment", generating "unceasing buzz" and "a vast, ever-expanding digital world of clips, reactions, live-streams, dissections and analysis"; hence, apart from just Swift's performances, the mythology, celebrity gossip and fan culture surrounding the tour drove news cycles, expanding the "Swiftverse and dissolving its borders with everything else even further." She described the Eras Tour as "not so much as a series of concerts, but as an ongoing, sprawling, interactive and ever-mutating reality show, with new chapters every week."[115] Various brands, celebrities and companies posted parodies of the Eras Tour poster on social media.[116][117]

A topic of constant media coverage, a large number of celebrities across various fields such as cinema, television, music and sports attended the Eras Tour, leading to Billboard described the Eras Tour as a "genuinely epic event".[118][119][120] Culture journalist Kate Lindsay dubbed the tour "post-reality TV" in her Substack newsletter.[121] According to Tyler Foggatt of The New Yorker, Swift "has done to stadium shows what Beyoncé did to Coachella, and to millennials what Bruce Springsteen did to baby boomers. She has crafted a spectacle—a long-form, real-life experience in an age that is otherwise dominated by short-form online content—though the tour is also perfectly designed to be consumed online."[122] Billboard critics agreed that Swift has dominated 2023 commercially and culturally, and some of them opined that the persisting success of Midnights, followed by the Eras Tour, and Swift's release of Speak Now (Taylor's Version) in July 2023 could "overexpose" Swift once again.[123] Glamour raised the same concern, stating Swift has dominated all aspects of popular culture in 2023, resulting in a "Swift monoculture", which could possibly lead to a misogynistic fatigue phenomenon over her in mainstream culture.[124]

Fanaticism

See also: Beatlemania

"The only thing I can compare [the Eras Tour] to is the phenomenon of Beatlemania."

American musician Billy Joel, The New York Times[9]

The fan frenzy associated with the tour has been dubbed "Swiftmania" or similar terms.[125][126][127][128] The Irish Times held it responsible for "pushing up prices", leading to the Swiftflation phenomenon.[129] Journalists considered Swiftmania as the 21st-century equivalent to Beatlemania, a 1960s cultural phenomenon owing to the fanaticism surrounding the English rock band the Beatles. Jon Bream of Star Tribune opined that Swift has achieved "a once unthinkable monoculture, a zeitgeistian redux of Beatlemania".[130][131][132]

Media outlets have noted the extensive audience participation on the Eras Tour, particularly the various "inside joke" chants and rituals that the crowds performed together at each show.[133][134][135] Outlets also reported that many fans experienced a "post-concert amnesia", struggling to remember the concert after attending it. Psychologists explained that intensely happy emotions have the same effect on the brain as traumatic events, and can lead to loss of memory, as the "highly stimulating environment" of the show overwhelms the amount of information the brain can handle at a time.[136][137][138]

Tailgating

Large numbers of fans who did not have tickets to the Eras Tour gathered outside the venues in various cities to listen to Swift performing,[139][140] a tailgate party phenomenon media outlets and fans termed "Taylor-gating".[141][142] According to NBC News, such gatherings in open spaces outside the stadium premises have been attributed to a sense or experience of community within Swift's fandom. Thousands gathered in Tampa, Philadelphia and Nashville, among other cities, following which people "shared positive experiences" about Taylor-gating via TikTok, leading to growing crowds at subsequent shows.[143] The Philadelphia shows attracted around 20,000 ticketless fans every night.[144][145][146] In Chicago, fans occupied the public parks outside Soldier Field, where the concert was "clearly" audible.[143] Cincinnati allocated adjacent park areas for the 41,000 Taylor-gaters.[147][60] In Mexico City, stands outside the venue Foro Sol were opened for tailgaters.[148]

As the practice grew in popularity, some cities and stadium authorities prohibited tailgating due to security reasons. New Jersey State Police issued a warning on May 26, 2023, asking those without tickets not to gather outside the concert venue in East Rutherford.[149] Levi's Stadium, the venue for the Santa Clara concerts, similarly prohibited tailgating and asked fans not to congregate in the parking lots or nearby streets.[150] Other cities that banned tailgating include Kansas City and Inglewood.[151][152] Some companies hiring temporary workers or volunteers to work at venues reported a surge in applications from fans who could not get tickets to the Eras Tour, with one company receiving over 1,000 applications for 65 positions.[153]

Merchandise

Two bracelets together spelling "ARCHER" and "MPLS N2" with letter beads
Some Eras Tour friendship bracelets referencing "The Archer" at the second Minneapolis show

Concert attendees and Taylor-gating fans made friendship bracelets, carrying song titles or references to Swift's music and colloquialisms, to trade with each other or give to celebrity attendees, inspired by lyrics in Swift's 2022 song "You're on Your Own, Kid".[154][155][156] The trend also grew amongst celebrities, such as Kenyan-Mexican actress Lupita Nyong'o, who made and shared bracelets at the tour.[157] Swift herself commented on the making and sharing of bracelets.[158] The bracelets became a significant business for shops online, including those on e-commerce website Etsy.[159] Some bead shops saw a record-setting surge in sales;[160][111] arts and crafts supply store Michaels reported a chain-wide increase in sales of more than 40% on their jewelry range, and up to 500% in locations where the concert had stops.[161] Shortages in beads and sequins supply were also reported.[156]

Eras Tour concertgoers gather outside Lumen Field
Several lines of fans in front of U.S. Bank Stadium
Portions of the long queues formed for the Eras Tour merchandise truck in the stadium premises in Seattle (top) and Minneapolis (below)

The Eras Tour merchandise trucks drew uncommonly long queues at all stops of the tour.[125][162][163] The New York Times reported that hundreds of fans waited outside the Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida, overnight in the rain to purchase the merchandise before it sold out.[126] In Los Angeles, 3,000 fans queued for the merchandise stands outside SoFi Stadium.[164] The Wall Street Journal estimated that $3 million worth of merchandise is sold at every stop of the tour.[165] According to Universal Music Group (UMG), the success of tour helped boost merchandising revenue by 12 percent, compensating the decline in touring revenue during the pandemic.[166]

The Messenger reported that the confetti gathered from the Eras Tour evolved into its own niche market—being sold online at prices ranging from $10 to $200 on eBay and Facebook Marketplace—with some fans recouping full costs of their tickets in the process. Journalist Julia Gray wrote, "Confetti is like an extension of Swift's sought-after, limited-release merch. There's an element of scarcity and exclusivity."[167]

Fashion

According to fashion critic Vanessa Friedman, Swift's wardrobe for the Eras Tour received wide press coverage.[168] Tailors reported an increased demand for replicas of Swift's tour outfits.[169] The tour increased the demand in sales of apparel like metallic boots and sequin dresses. According to CNN, fashion and clothing retailers across the US are "carefully" marketing their products to actively target attendees of the Eras Tour. Companies such as Altar'd State, Bipty, and Hazel & Olive created a separate section of items inspired by Swift and her eras. Sales of rhinestone boots and cowboy hats also spiked, helping Hazel & Olive achieve its "biggest sales year yet."[170][171] Vogue further noted the tour's impact on social media fashion, which used to only be a phenomenon of music festivals such as Coachella;[172] many fans wore replicas of Swift's outfits or costumes based on her music to the concert.[173][174] Shannon Aducci of Footwear News opined that Swifties at the Eras Tour shaped the direction of 2023 summer fashion.[175]

Seismic activity

During the tour's stop in Seattle at Lumen Field on July 22 and 23, 2023, fans in the area caused seismic activity equivalent to a 2.3-magnitude earthquake, nicknamed the "Swift Quake". It was mostly attributed to the concert attendees jumping, dancing and cheering, as well as the loud sound system. According to Jackie Caplan-Auerbach, a seismologist at Western Washington University, the seismic activity on both nights was more than "twice as hard" as the Beast Quake—when Seattle experienced seismic activity equivalent to a 2.0-magnitude earthquake after the Seattle Seahawks scored a touchdown against the New Orleans Saints during a National Football League (NFL) game—as well as "RaveQuakes" during important Seattle Sounders soccer games.[176][177]

Music charts

This is the part about Taylor Swift's career that is unprecedented. She has, rather brilliantly, convinced the public that her past and present coexist right now. She's dismantled the former "new work vs. old work" binary for artists and replaced it with the "Eras" paradigm, where her songs are parceled into different concurrent channels that are equally accessible [...] Swift has figured out how to reprogram the public's internal algorithm better than any of her competitors, so that her historical fame doesn't count against her contemporary fame. She gets to be a "legacy act" and a "relevant pop act" simultaneously.

— Critic Steven Hyden, Uproxx[178]

Swift's discography gained in sales and streams following the Eras Tour. Billboard reported that Swift's entire discography rose in daily streams, especially the songs on the setlist.[179]

Seven of Swift's albums charted in the top 40 regions of the US Billboard 200, making Swift the first living artist to do so; Midnights, Lover, Folklore, 1989, Red (Taylor's Version), Reputation, and Evermore charted at numbers 3, 13, 14, 19, 22, 26, and 31, respectively. Whitney Houston was the first artist to chart seven albums in the top 40, but she did so posthumously.[180] Several weeks later, Swift became the first artist to simultaneously chart eight albums in the top 40 and nine albums in the top 50,[181] as well as the first woman to chart four albums in the top 10 and 11 albums overall in a single week.[182][183] Billboard's Andrew Unterberger wrote, the "really unprecedented thing" about the Eras Tour's streaming impact is that "the initial bump did not start receding back to its usual sea after a week or two [as with the case of artists than Swift]—it continued to grow. And grow." He reported that even at the tenth week of the tour, Swift's discography has shown a 79% increase in streams from where it was pre-tour, amassing "hundreds of millions more streams" weekly.[112]

Following the Australian ticket sales in June 2023, Swift charted six albums in the ARIA Albums Chart top 10, becoming the first artist to occupy the entire top five.[184] Following the opening shows of the Eras Tour, five of Swift's albums entered the top 40 of the UK Albums Chart.[185]

Swift's 2019 song "Cruel Summer" achieved resurgent success in 2023. The Eras Tour concerts begin with the Lover act, in which "Cruel Summer" is the second song performed.[186] The song resurged in popularity and streaming after it became viral on social media, re-entering the top 50 in the US and the top 40 in the UK.[187][188] Therefore, Swift's label Republic Records released the song as the fifth single from Lover, her seventh studio album from 2019, to US contemporary hit radio on June 20, 2023.[186] Commenting on the song's resurgent success, Billboard editor Jason Lipshutz stated, "a Lover track organically rising to new heights at the same time simply demonstrates Swift's current ubiquity, unprecedented in the modern music era."[189] "Cruel Summer" entered the singles charts for the first time in various countries and reached new peaks in the Philippines (1),[190] Singapore (1),[191] Japan (2),[192] Australia (3),[193] the UK (3),[194] the US (3),[195] Indonesia (5),[196] New Zealand (5),[197] Canada (6),[195] Malaysia (8),[198] and Ireland (12).[199]

Swift's 2014 single "Blank Space" re-entered the US Hot 100 (49),[200] and the singles chart in the Netherlands (17).[201] It debuted and reached new peaks in Singapore (13),[202] the Philippines (25),[203] Vietnam (57),[204] and the Billboard Global 200 chart (40) that was inaugurated in 2020.[195]

Cinema

Main article: Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour

Swift announced the tour's accompanying concert film, Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour, on August 31, 2023. North American tickets went on sale immediately, and despite AMC Theatres, the film's official distributor, upgrading its online infrastructure in anticipation of high demand for presale tickets, the app crashed, forcing customers into queues.[205] The film collected $37 million in first-day presales in the US and is projected to earn anywhere from $70 million to $100 million in its opening week, a record among concert films.[206][207] IMAX Corporation CEO Richard Gelfond told CNBC that the presale figures were comparable to those of a "blockbuster tentpole feature".[208] The film is set for release on October 13, 2023, and several films that shared the same release date moved out of it to avoid competing with The Eras Tour, including The Exorcist: Believer.[209]

Various journalists opined that the film was being released in a crucial time for movie theaters and would boost their earnings after the business was widely affected by the ongoing Writers Guild of America and SAG-AFTRA strikes.[210][211][212] Michael O'Leary, president of the National Association of Theatre Owners, believed the success of The Eras Tour was a testament to the unrealized potential of concert films in theaters.[212] It was reported that Hollywood executives were irked with Swift's surprise announcement of the film as she had directly and secretly negotiated directly with AMC to distribute the film in theatres, bypassing major film studios and their streaming services.[213] The Daily Telegraph's Ed Power praised Swift's business sense and decision to release the film to the fury of the studios, writing: "Barbenheimer showed people will go to the cinema if they feel they are participating in a communal experience. Hollywood refused to take advantage of this. So Swift has instead."[213] Inc. columnist Jason Aten said Swift could be "the world's savviest marketer" as she "seems to have figured out [release strategies] far better than most studio executives".[214] Others opined The Eras Tour's success could affect the conventional producer–distributor–exhibitor structure of film releases.[215][216]

Honors

Companies, city administrations, and other organizations celebrated the Eras Tour with various tributes.[66][217]

Governments

State Farm Stadium in 2022
State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona hosted the first show of the tour. Glendale renamed itself Swift City to honor the tour.[218]

Organizations and companies

A yellow top and pants in a glass case in front of images of Taylor Swift from each album
The Eras Tour inspired many exhibitions. Pictured is the showcase of an outfit Swift wore in the "Lavender Haze" music video at a Nashville exhibition.

Cultural legacy

It will take some time before all the implications of Taylor Swift's Eras Tour are fully understood. Her epochal trek is a potent multifaceted symbol for our times rife with social, political, economic and cultural meaning, which we'll leave to cultural theorists and pundits to deconstruct. From a live industry standpoint, however, her stadium tour is both qualitatively and quantitatively a high-water mark that left the showgoer completely agog.

— Andy Gensler, Pollstar[1]

Publications unanimously described the Eras Tour as a cultural phenomenon. The Recording Academy published, the tour is "the most legendary of [Swift's] generation", emphasizing it is "hard to imagine that any other tour this year will have a cultural impact as big".[262] USA Today described the tour as a "historically monumental event".[263] The Guardian said the tour is 2023's "single most significant pop culture phenomenon".[12] Many critics also opined that the tour marked the greatest moment in Swift's career.[264][12]

Many critics considered the "cultural domination" of the Eras Tour a rarity. Time journalists called it an "unmatched success" and a "in a league of its own".[156] Amanda Petrusich wrote, despite the noted decline of monocultural affairs in contemporary popular culture as consumers "no longer consume the same cultural objects at the same time or in the same way", the Eras Tour is an exception, achieving a rare, "mind-boggling inescapability".[265] According to Pollstar, the tour "[did not just enter] the broader discourse but, in so many ways, its gravity is so formidable that the tour and everything that's fallen into its orbit drives the discourse."[56] Shirley McMarlin of Pittsburgh Tribune-Review wrote, "Taylor Swift is the biggest thing going in the entertainment industry. Turn on the TV or radio, scroll social media, listen to talk on the street, and there she is."[131] Ryan Faughnder of the Los Angeles Times felt that the Eras Tour turned into a "the ultimate FOMO-inducing event".[266]

Mikael Wood and August Brown of the Los Angeles Times wrote, the tour remained "atop the cultural conversation virtually nonstop" since it started. According to Bill Werde, professor of music and entertainment industries in Syracuse University, "the last artist who could effortlessly sell out stadiums and was simultaneously on top of their game in terms of the zeitgeist of popular music—the name that comes to my mind is Michael Jackson. This is really like the Thriller era."[267] The New York Times author Ben Sisario opined, the tour showed that Swift has a "white-hot demand and media saturation" unseen since Jackson and Madonna in the 1980s, and that she stood above artists that toured concurrently, such as Beyoncé, Bruce Springsteen, and Drake, in terms of success and "media noise".[9] Variety critic Chris Willman said the Eras Tour is like a "career-capping Beatles tour that never happened", surpassing all the tours of the past in terms of business and cultural significance.[268]

Journalists credited the Eras Tour with popularizing and legitimizing the notion and concept of "eras" in terms of a music career. The A.V. Club opined that the concept is one of Swift's signatures.[269][270][178] The Guardian journalist Dave Simpson wrote that the 44-song set list of the Eras Tour might increase the demand for "longer" concerts and may "trigger a set list arms race as artists battle to play longer than each other." He opined that the It's All a Blur Tour, an upcoming co-headlining tour by Drake and 21 Savage, was inspired by the concept of the Eras Tour, with the former's promotional poster depicting a "career retrospective" similar to the latter.[271] Rolling Stone further noted the influence of Swift's tour on the Jonas Brothers' 2023–2024 tour, the Five Albums. One Night. The World Tour, on which they performed songs from "five albums every night".[272]

Feminist analysis

Some culture critics examined the tour's impact in a feminist lens. Tyler Foggatt wrote, the Eras Tour transformed "a football stadium, typically a center of male aggression, into a sanctum of gleeful femininity." She compared it to the 2017 Women's March, though mentioned there were sequins instead of pussyhats, and the tour included "probably the same number of male allies."[122] In The New York Times, American author Michelle Goldberg compared the cultural impact of the Eras Tour to that of Barbie (2023), a fantasy comedy film, and dubbed them both 2023 summer's biggest entertainment phenomena celebrating mainstream femininity but also "beneath their slick, exuberant pop surfaces, tell female coming-of-age stories marked by existential crises and bitter confrontations with sexism." Goldberg opined that the "gargantuan" success of both the works prove there "is a huge, underserved market for entertainment that takes the feelings of girls and women seriously."[273]

Talia Lakritz of Business Insider said both the Eras Tour and Barbie are inspiring a movement among women "to reclaim girlhood without rescinding power." Lakritz added that being at an Eras Tour concert and a movie theater playing Barbie gave her the same feeling—"the collective joy of femininity".[274] Sisario considered both works as critiques of patriarchy that showed women's control over pop culture.[9] In a similar view, Willman said that the two works of entertainment use patriarchy as a subject of irony "while being utterly friendly to and welcoming of men as much as anybody" and became billion-dollar-earning phenomena.[268]

Many journalists considered the Eras Tour, Barbie and Beyoncé's Renaissance World Tour as triumphant works of women's creativity. Larry Vincent, marketing professor from the USC Marshall School of Business, said the Eras Tour and Barbie were two summer phenomena that showed a "really strong ritual dimension of [women-driven] consumer behavior".[275][266] According to author Katherine Wintsch, "It's a sense of solidarity that women are willing to pay good money for."[111]

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