After 149 shows in 50 cities, across 19 countries and five continents, Taylor Swift has officially performed her last ever Eras concert, a world tour that has grossed more than $2 billion USD.
The international pop superstar has been touring the globe with her three-hour performance, showcasing 18 years’ worth of music, since March 2023.
On Sunday night, Swift, who will turn 35 later this month, performed her final show in Vancouver to a sold-out crowd at BC Place.
“We are about to go on one last grand adventure together,” Swift said at the beginning of her show.
The numbers
According to her production company, Taylor Swift’s Eras World Tour has generated more than $2 billion USD ($3.11 billion AUD).
Swift’s world tour doubles the record set by Coldplay and their Music of the Spheres world tour, which grossed $1 billion USD from 156 shows. The Eras tour has been confirmed as the most commercially successful tour of all time.
Since starting the Eras tour, Swift has released three new albums: Speak Now (Taylor’s Version), 1989 (Taylor’s Version) and The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology (TTPD).
Days after TTPD was released, she added a brand new set to her concert to include some of the 31 songs from the album.
Swift travelled to Sydney and Melbourne to perform seven sold-out shows. According to Ticketek, four million people queued online to try and score tickets. Not everyone was successful – in fact, many missed out on tickets.
The Melbourne crowd at the MCG was the biggest crowd she has performed to in her career, with 96,000 fans packed out in the stadium.
According to figures from the National Australia Bank (NAB), the Taylor Swift Eras World Tour interjected $300 million into the Australian economy.
The lyrics
While the setlist has largely remained the same over the last two years, in each of her 149 shows she has performed, Swift has an acoustic set where she performs two surprise songs.
In her final show in Vancouver, one of her acoustic songs was an epic mashup of three songs across the eras, which really ties a bow on this “grand adventure” that is the Eras Tour.
The first of the three songs was Long Live, from her album Speak Now. This song was in the original setlist, but was cut after the release of TTPD.
“I said ‘remember this moment’ / In the back of my mind / The time we stood with our shaking hands / The crowds in stands went wild.”
Next was New Year’s Day from Reputation, one of the slower songs on her upbeat, badass era. Reputation is the last album she is expected to re-release as Taylor’s Version, and fans are eagerly awaiting an announcement for it.
“Hold on to the memories / They will hold on to you.”
The final song of the mashup was The Manuscript, the very last song on her most recent album, TTPD: The Anthology.
“The only thing that’s left is the manuscript / One last souvenir from my trip to your shores
“Now and then I re-read the manuscript / But the story isn’t mine anymore.”
When she released the album, she told fans on Instagram: “And now the story isn’t mine anymore… it’s all yours.”
Any announcements?
It is in true Taylor Swift fashion to leave cryptic Easter eggs for fans to decode, but her final show pretty much followed most others before it.
However, many fans online are suspecting some sort of announcement, pointing to the suspicious amount of yellow and orange outfits on her Instagram feed, as well as her exit through an orange door at the end of her final song, Karma – something she hasn’t done in previous shows before. Fans believe the yellow and orange colours could point to a new album on the horizon.
Could we see Taylor Swift 12, her 12th studio album, and 12th era soon? If her history is anything to go by, I wouldn’t put it past her.