Taylor Swift announced on Tuesday morning her rumored return to the road, with a jaunt dubbed the ‘Eras Tour’ scheduled to hit US stages from March 2023 through August, with international dates to be revealed at a later date. .
The supporting acts are very much about sisterhood, with a number of acts Swift has supported in the past. Opening for the US leg of the tour are Paramore, Haim, Phoebe Bridgers, Beabadoobee, Girl in Red, Muna, Gayle, Gracie Abrams and Owenn.
The tour kicks off on March 18, 2023 in what’s apparently a sweet spot for Swift, Glendale, AZ, the same place where her last outing, the pre-pandemic “Reputation” tour, kicked off in 2018.
The U.S. leg wraps up four and a half months later with two nights at Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium on Aug. 4-5 — the venue that was set to open as a 2020 concert venue with the canceled ‘Lover Fest’ mini-tour.
As for what album can we consider the tour to be supporting, since she’s released four original studio albums since her last tour? All of them. Swift described the tour as “a journey through the musical seasons of my career (past and present!),” with a graphic showing her look from different phases of her career.
Check out the full itinerary, with color-coded graphics indicating which of the nine opening shows are in which cities:
The public sale will take place at 10 am. local time on November 18. As with all major tours today, there will be an earlier ticket release for credit card members, in this case Capital One cardholders, starting November 15th at 10am local time.
As with her previous tour, there will be a Ticketmaster Verified Fan program “to ensure tickets get into the hands of fans.” Aspiring ticket buyers can register for the setup now through November 9 here.
Unusually in the modern era of “platinum tickets” with varying prices, where fans receive little information about the set ticket prices, Swift has announced the cost of her tickets in advance. They range from $49 to $449, with VIP packages starting at $199 and going up to $899.
Swift’s announcement promised that international dates would follow.
Of all her “Eras,” Swift is really going to represent the modern on the tour, as much as fans might relish the idea of a somewhat nostalgic outing that will encompass the full range of her career. He’s released ‘Lover’, ‘Folklore’, ‘Evermore’ and now ‘Midnights’ since he was last on the road, along with bonus-assisted re-recordings of ‘Red’ and ‘Fearless’. which would have been enough of an opportunity to prompt her own tour in an era before the entire concert scene necessarily ceased.
There was attention to detail in the announcement of the tour, even in the graphics signifying the opening at different points along the tour route, with Bridgers, for example, represented by a tiny ghost, in honor of the skeleton suit she has used to headline tours.
It’s no coincidence, perhaps, that the same graphic breaks down the tour itinerary into two columns of 13 dates each. There will be 26 shows in 20 cities. Venues receiving a two-night stand are in Los Angeles, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Chicago, Arlington, TX, Foxborough, MA and East Rutherford, NJ.
The reception to “Midnights” upon its release in October left no doubt how strong the appetite for Swift tickets will be. It had the biggest week since Adele’s ’25,’ per Luminate this week, with 1,578,000 album-equivalent units. Additionally, it was announced Monday that for the first time ever, all of the top 10 spots on the Billboard Hot 100 were filled by songs from one artist, with “Anti-Hero” debuting at No. 1. Fans really wanted the full album, so or else — of the nearly 1.6 million album units registered for “Midnights,” 1,140,000 copies were purchased in full-album form. It became Swift’s fifth album, out of her 10 original studio releases in total, to sell more than one million copies in its first week. The number also represented the best first-week sales for an album by any artist since “Reputation” came out of the gate with 1,216,000.
The full US tour:
DATE CITYVENUEMarch 18Glendale, AZState Farm StadiumMarch 25Las Vegas, NVAllegiant StadiumApril 1Arlington, TXAT&T StadiumApril 2Arlington, TXAT&T StadiumApril 15Tampa, FLRaymond James StadiumApril 22Houston, TXNRG StadiumApril 28Atlanta, GAMercedes-Benz StadiumApril 29Atlanta, GAMercedes-Benz StadiumMay 6Nashville, TNNNissan StadiumMay 12Philadelphia, PALincoln Financial FieldMay 13Philadelphia, Palincoln Financial Fieldmay 19foxborough, Magillette StadiumMay 20Foxborough, Magillette Stadiummay 26 East Rutherford, PaaciNiugebur, PaaciNecune, PaaciNiUne, PaaciNiUne, MnioPONCUNE. Bank Stadium July 1 Cincinnati OHPaycor Stadium July 8 Kansas City MOGEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium July 15 Denver COEmpower Field at Mile High July 22 Seattle WALumen FieldJuly 29 Santa Clara Stadium Clara Stadium 4 Lust Stadium CALEUSA , CALEUSA
