Taylor Swift’s record-breaking ‘Eras Tour’ has grow to be the primary tour in historical past to generate gross revenues of over $1 billion.
That’s in keeping with Pollstar, which, citing field workplace reviews, mentioned on Friday (December 8) that Swift took in an estimated ticket gross of $1.04 billion, with 4.35 million tickets offered from 60 reveals that came about throughout the eligible interval.
Pollstar explains that its annual rating of the live performance trade’s top-performing artists is tabulated for all reveals labored between November 17, 2022, and November 15, 2023.
All ticket gross sales figures are calculated in US {dollars}, and in keeping with Pollstar, “are based mostly on reported info and in depth analysis by Pollstar”.
Past ticket revenues, Pollstar estimates “Eras Tour” merchandise gross sales at roughly $200 million throughout the identical interval.
At this time’s information tops off a blockbuster yr for Swift.
The artist noticed vital success along with her rerecorded album releases and blockbuster live performance movie, in addition to this week being named Time’s Particular person of the 12 months for 2023.
Taylor Swift was additionally this yr’s most-streamed artist globally on Spotify, attaining greater than 26.1 billion world streams on the platform since January 1.
The Eras Tour live performance film, in the meantime, is reported to have crossed the $250 million mark in worldwide ticket gross sales, making it the highest-grossing live performance film of all time.
Moreover, Pollstar initiatives that “Eras Tour” ticket gross sales for the following eligibility field workplace yr will once more hit $1 billion, taking the tour’s whole to greater than $2 billion.
Along with Taylor Swift, Pollstar’s High 10 rankings on 2023’s Worldwide Excursions are Beyoncé (No. 2), Bruce Springsteen & The E Road Band (No. 3), Coldplay (No. 4), Harry Kinds (No. 5), Morgan Wallen (No. 6), Ed Sheeran (No. 7), P!nk (No. 8), The Weeknd (No. 9), and Drake (No. 10).
Pollstar reviews that 2023 was “one other unprecedented yr” for the live performance trade, with whole gross revenues for the Worldwide High 100 Excursions up 46% to a record-breaking $9.17 billion (2022’s whole was $6.28bn). Attendance was up 18.38% in whole tickets offered to 70.1 million (versus 59.2m in 2022).
Along with Taylor Swift, charting within the High 10 of the North American Excursions are Beyoncé (No. 2), Morgan Wallen (No. 3), Drake (No. 4), P!nk (No. 5), Bruce Springsteen & The E Road Band (No. 6), Ed Sheeran (No. 7), George Strait (No. 8), Karol G (No. 9), and RBD (No. 10).
In 2023, the High 100 North American Excursions additionally set a gross document with an estimated $6.63 billion (versus $4.77 bn in 2022), in keeping with Pollstar.
“This has been the 12 months of the Blockbuster, none incomes that title greater than Taylor Swift’s cultural takeover in Eras, Pollstar’s first-ever billion-dollar tour.”
Ray Waddell, Oak View Group
“This has been the 12 months of the Blockbuster, none incomes that title greater than Taylor Swift’s cultural takeover in Eras, Pollstar’s first-ever billion-dollar tour,” mentioned Ray Waddell, president of Oak View Group’s Media & Conferences Division, which oversees Pollstar and sister publication VenuesNow.
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