49 Fun Facts About Taylor Swift: the Eras Tour

The Eras Tour opened in March 2023 at State Farm Stadium, in which suburb of Phoenix?

Glendale. The city renamed itself Swift City for the opening weekend, and its mayor signed a proclamation packed with nods to her songs.

In which city did the Eras Tour play its final show in December 2024?

Vancouver. Fans inside the stadium streamed the farewell live, as others had all tour, so the crowd in the building was only a fraction of the audience.

Which was the only inhabited continent the Eras Tour skipped?

Africa. The tour was announced as just 27 US dates; demand kept stretching it, with extra nights added before a single ticket was on sale, until it ran to 149 shows.

Swift announced the Eras Tour in November 2022, soon after releasing which album?

Midnights. It was the fourth new album she had released since she last toured, which is why the show was built around every era rather than the latest record alone.

Which album's tour was Swift's last before the Eras Tour, five years earlier?

Reputation. She had a run of 2020 festival and stadium dates lined up to follow that tour, but the pandemic scrapped them, and three more new albums arrived before she could tour again.

According to her promoter's chief executive, which common ticketing practice did Swift flatly refuse for the Eras Tour?

Dynamic pricing. Letting prices float with demand would have earned her far more, but the head of AEG said she told him no and accepted the smaller take.

Which card company's partnership gave US fans presale access in November 2022?

Capital One. Its cardholder presale was due the same day as the fan presale, but when the ticket site buckled that morning it had to be pushed back 24 hours.

Which company's website buckled under the US presale in November 2022, leading to a Senate hearing?

Ticketmaster. Its parent company's chairman said it had braced for 1.5 million invited fans, only for 14 million visitors, bots among them, to turn up; in 2024 the Justice Department filed an antitrust suit against that parent.

What happened to the Eras Tour's US public sale, planned for three days after the chaotic presale?

Cancelled outright. Over 2 million seats had gone on the first presale day, which the seller called a one-day record for any artist, and it said too few were left to meet demand.

Left off the tour's first international dates, which country's prime minister publicly urged Swift to add shows there?

Canada. An MP had complained of a snub and Justin Trudeau asked her publicly not to pass the country by; a month later she announced six nights in Toronto.

Who opened the Latin American leg of the tour?

Sabrina Carpenter. When a storm wiped out her opening set on the first Sydney night, Swift brought her on mid-show for a duet instead.

Which band opened the European leg?

Paramore. On the US leg a rotating cast of support acts changed from city to city, but in Europe the one band opened every single date.

Which football club asked La Liga to move a match so Swift could add a second night at its stadium?

Real Madrid. After a rush for tickets to the first date, the league agreed to bring the club's home game forward a day, to the Saturday, leaving time to ready the stadium for an extra concert.

A line in which Swift song set off the Eras Tour craze for swapping friendship bracelets?

You're on Your Own, Kid. Fans took one line literally, beading bracelets by the dozen to swap with strangers, and at the final show Swift called that the lasting legacy of the tour.

Singapore's Eras Tour presale was only for customers of which business?

Bank. Only UOB cardholders could buy in the presale, so fans scrambled to apply for its credit and debit cards, and the bank warned that the surge in applications would take time to process.

How were seats for the Tokyo shows sold in each presale round?

As lottery tickets. Fans applied within a set window and learned days later whether they had won the right to buy; only a small batch of extra seats was later sold first come, first served.

Which Australian state declared its Eras shows a 'major event' to penalise scalping?

Victoria. Its cap on resale, 10 per cent over face value, only applies once an event is declared, so the state acted after a consumer group flagged seats relisted for thousands; next door the cap is automatic.

How was Swift wheeled unseen through the stadium to the stage before each Eras Tour show?

Inside a cleaning cart. Fans pieced it together from their own videos of crew pushing a cart to the stage, and her tour book later confirmed it with a photo of her sitting inside.

Which Eras Tour workers famously got $100,000 bonuses each?

Truck drivers. About 50 of them hauled the show from city to city; each cheque came with a handwritten letter, and their boss called it life-changing money, enough for a deposit on a first home.

Which actress recommended the Eras Tour's choreographer after dancing her routines on film?

Emma Stone. She had worked with choreographer Mandy Moore on La La Land; Swift then trained in dance for three months, wanting to be so over-rehearsed she could be silly with the fans.

How did Swift rehearse her vocals for the three-hour-plus Eras Tour show?

Singing the set list on a treadmill. She sang the whole show aloud every day as she ran, going fast for the fast songs and easing to a jog or brisk walk for the slow ones.

Which 1960s hit played over the countdown clock before each Eras Tour show?

You Don't Own Me. Male songwriters wrote the defiant 1963 anthem for the teenage Lesley Gore, and only the Beatles kept it off No. 1; here it blared out as the clock ran down to showtime.

Which album's act opened the Eras Tour show?

Lover. She never got to tour the 2019 album because the pandemic scrapped its dates, and her tour book says she always knew that era had to come first.

In the original 2023 Eras Tour show, which album's act featured a moss-covered piano?

Evermore. After playing Champagne Problems at the mossy piano she would stop and simply take in the crowd's ovation, which could roll on for minutes before she spoke.

Variety likened the Eras Tour staging of 'Tolerate It', a couple estranged across a long table, to which 1941 film?

Citizen Kane. The film charts a marriage souring over a run of breakfasts at one table; on stage Swift set places at a long table and pleaded across it for her partner's attention.

During 'Look What You Made Me Do' on the Eras Tour, who were the dancers in glass boxes dressed as?

Her past selves. Each dancer wore one of her old looks in a doll-style display box, a nod to the song's video, in which she re-enacts moments from her own years in the public eye.

What did Swift hand to one lucky fan during '22' at every Eras Tour show?

Her black hat. It often went to a very young fan, along with a hug, and her tour book later revealed a secret: she had hidden her autograph in each one.

What structure sat on stage during the Folklore act of the Eras Tour?

An A-frame cabin. A version of it first appeared in her 2021 Grammys performance of the lockdown album, and on tour she began the act lying on its mossy roof.

During 'Blank Space' on the Eras Tour, what did Swift and her dancers swing at with light-up golf clubs?

An animated Shelby Cobra. Each swing left a fresh dent in the on-screen car, right on the beat: a live replay of the song's video, where she takes a golf club to her boyfriend's sports car.

After each Eras Tour acoustic set, how did Swift appear to return to the main stage?

Swimming. She put her hands together over her head and plunged into a hole in the floor, and lighting effects showed her gliding beneath the runway before she emerged in a new costume.

Critics saw the 'Vigilante Shit' chair dance on the Eras Tour as a homage to which 1975 musical?

Chicago. Swift and her dancers went full burlesque on and around chairs, a sultry routine some three hours into the show that Variety called its one tangibly erotic moment.

Which song closed every Eras Tour show, amid fireworks and confetti?

Karma. She had chart-toppers to spare, yet on opening night the closer was a mere album track, not yet a single; she danced it out with her troupe in tinsel-fringed jackets.

Which album got its own act when the Eras Tour show was revamped in Paris in May 2024?

The Tortured Poets Department. Out just three weeks earlier, it arrived with a gliding platform fans nicknamed the stage Roomba, and a pair of older acts were merged into one to make room.

In the Eras Tour's 2024 set, what appeared above Swift and caught her in its spotlight for 'Down Bad'?

A UFO. She has said the song treats being dazzled by someone and then dropped as an alien abduction, so the ship hung over her while she sang on a block gliding above a digital galaxy.

The 2023 concert film of the Eras Tour was shot at the tour's shows in which city?

Los Angeles. Cameras rolled at SoFi Stadium in August 2023 and the film was in cinemas about ten weeks later, with adult tickets priced at $19.89 in a wink at her album 1989.

Swift bypassed the Hollywood studios and released her Eras Tour concert film through which cinema chain, a first for the company?

AMC. Studios had pitched her full release plans, then heard nothing until she announced the film herself online; cutting them out left her camp about 57% of ticket sales, and Beyoncé soon followed suit.

At which Eras Tour show did Swift announce Speak Now (Taylor's Version)?

The first Nashville show. She pointed the crowd to the stadium screens for the news, and that night three city landmarks, the Tennessee State Capitol among them, were lit up in purple, the album's colour.

Which rapper joined Swift as a surprise guest at the East Rutherford Eras Tour shows to debut their remix?

Ice Spice. The crowd at the first New Jersey night saw the remix's video before anyone else, hours ahead of its midnight release online, and then she walked out to perform it live.

Fans queued a day early at Eras Tour merch stands to buy a new song in which format?

A CD. It was billed as the only way to hear You're Losing Me, but early buyers uploaded it from their cars, and that night her webstore put a download on sale for 24 hours.

In which city did Swift play to a career-record crowd of 96,000 in February 2024?

Melbourne. Swift told the crowd at the Melbourne Cricket Ground it was the biggest show she had ever played, then revealed a new edition of her next album, with a bonus track called The Bolter.

Which US retailer sold The Eras Tour Book exclusively on Black Friday 2024?

Target. Swift published the book herself rather than through a publishing house, and although buyers found enough typos to nickname it the Errors Tour Book, it still had the biggest book launch of 2024.

What is the title of the six-episode Disney+ docuseries that goes behind the scenes of the Eras Tour?

The End of an Era. Fans had guessed it was coming after spotting film crews at the later shows, and before its release Swift screened the first episodes privately for her reunited touring crew.

Whose farewell tour held the record as the highest-grossing tour ever until the Eras Tour overtook it in 2023?

Elton John. His Farewell Yellow Brick Road ran to 330 shows; Swift's tour finished on more than double its takings, about $2 billion, with fewer than half as many shows.

Pollstar estimated that the Eras Tour's average crowd beat whose record, set in 2009–11?

U2's. The band played in the round, with fans on every side of a four-legged stage nicknamed the Claw, and averaged about 66,000 a night; Swift's crowds came to more than 67,000.

Seven months into the Eras Tour, Bloomberg put Swift's net worth at roughly how much?

$1 billion. Bloomberg's count came to $1.1 billion, nearly all of it from music: touring, royalties and a song catalogue swollen by her decision to re-record her early albums and own the new versions.

At the Eras Tour's Munich shows, where did tens of thousands of fans without tickets gather to watch for free?

A grassy hill. The Olympic Hill looks down into the stadium, so crowds put at up to 50,000 settled on the grass to watch for free, and Swift thanked the fans outside from the stage.

Which European city lost all three of its Eras Tour shows to a foiled terror plot in August 2024?

Vienna. Instead of the concerts, hundreds of fans gathered in Corneliusgasse, a street whose name echoes her song Cornelia Street, to sing her songs together, and several museums let them in free.

Which country's prime minister accused Singapore of paying to be the Eras Tour's only stop in Southeast Asia?

Thailand. Srettha Thavisin said a promoter had told him Singapore offered up to $3 million a show; Singapore's prime minister later confirmed the arrangement and said he didn't see it as unfriendly.

Which album did Swift record in Sweden between the European dates of the Eras Tour?

The Life of a Showgirl. She pitched it to producer Max Martin when he came to her Stockholm show, and its cover shows her in a bathtub because, she said, that is how every show night ended.