Taylor Swift Delivers Final Performance In Record-Breaking ‘Eras’ Tour
The final performance from Taylor Swift’s record-breaking “Eras” tour, which has easily become the most successful musical tour in history, took place on Sunday in Vancouver.
On March 17, 2023, the world-renowned event began in Arizona, US.
Sunday’s show in Canada was the 149th Eras performance, following stops in cities ranging from Buenos Aires to Paris and Tokyo.
Swift appeared on stage at a sold-out BC Place stadium shortly before 8: 00 pm (0400 GMT) and told the crowd “it’s feeling like a pretty cool night to be in Vancouver”, according to the Vancouver Sun newspaper.
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The widely read trade magazine Pollstar has estimated the tour’s ticket revenue to be more than $2 billion, despite Swift’s camp’s camp’s camp’s camp’s camp’s press release.
That surpasses the record set by Elton John’s pandemic-infected “Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour,” which sold an estimated $ 939 million in tickets over 328 shows spread over five years.
Beyond the concerts, Swift’s presence in venue cities has supercharged local economies.
Her second-last tour stop was Toronto, where she performed six shows over two weekends.
She generated an additional Can $282 million ($199 million) in economic activity in Canada’s largest city, tourism promotion organization Destination Toronto estimated.
Justin Trudeau and his family attended one of the Toronto shows.
Prior to the announcement that Eras would include Canadian stops, Trudeau issued a public appeal to get Swift involved.
“I am aware that Canada would be delighted to have you there. So, don’t make it another Cruel Summer. We hope to see you soon”, Trudeau posted on X in July 2023, referring to a hit song from Swift’s 2019 album, “Lover”.
Not all of the political attention that Swift drew from Eras was positive.
Swift endorsed the Democratic Party for president shortly after Donald Trump and Kamala Harris’ September presidential debate.
That triggered an all-caps Trump post on the Republican former president’s Truth Social platform that simply said, “I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT”.
Super Bowl suspense
Reviews of Eras also praised Swift’s perseverance and energy throughout shows that lasted less than four hours on average.
The New York Times called opening night in Glendale, Arizona, a “master class”. The Vancouver Sun called Friday’s show, her third last, “spectacular”.
This summer, Vienna experienced a setback when three shows were canceled after a man was detained in connection with an Islamist attack plot.
And tragedy struck when a fan died in Rio de Janeiro last year from heat exhaustion.
Many fans were irritated by unprecedented ticket demand, which eventually led to Ticketmaster to abandon presale plans.
Eras also included a “will she, won’t she” moment of suspense that transcended the world of pop music.
After wrapping up a show in Tokyo on February 10, Swift was questioned about whether she had time to travel to Las Vegas in time to see her boyfriend, Travis Kelce, play for the Kansas City Chiefs before the Super Bowl.
A non-football storyline rarely wins the conversation before America’s biggest sporting event.
However, Swift’s schedule was so troubling that the Japanese Embassy in Washington issued a statement saying she would “comfortably” make the game.
From a private box, along with Kelce’s mother, Donna, Swift chugged a beer and watched the Chiefs beat the San Francisco 49ers as more than 200 million TV viewers watched her.
