Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour is a new record holder: the stadium run raked in $2.2 billion in just under two years.
The figures from Pollstar Boxoffice have been released following the conclusion of the Eras Tour in Vancouver at the weekend.
Data from the tour has been released as Taylor Swift returned to No.1 in the UK with The Tortured Poets Department, its ninth non-consecutive week at the summit.
Swift’s monumental tour took in 149 shows across 51 stadiums on five continents, with more than 10.05 million attendees. In the UK, she played eight dates at Wembley Stadium, a record for a solo artist.
A report in the New York Times based on information from Swift’s production company put the box office figure at $2 billion with attendance at 10.2m, with merchandise sales in addition to that.
Either way, the final figures make it the highest-grossing tour of all time by some distance.
Following the North America run in 2023, the Eras Tour’s $1.04 billion in ticket sales meant it had already pulled ahead of previous record holder, Elton John’s Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour.
During Sunday’s 60,000-capacity show at Vancouver’s BC Place Stadium, Taylor Swift first revealed that the Eras Tour had sold more than 10 million tickets.
“We have toured the entire world with this tour, we’ve had so many adventures, it’s been the most powerful, electrifying, intense, most challenging thing I’ve ever done in my entire life,” she said. “We’ve got to perform for over 10 million people on this tour. And tonight we get to play one last show for you tonight in beautiful Vancouver.”
The second biggest tour is Coldplay’s Music of The Spheres tour, which has pulled past the $1 billion mark.
With 10.3m tickets sold, the Coldplay tour is ahead of Swift although it started a whole year earlier. It is currently at an estimated $1.14 billion in ticket sales, with more dates to come in 2025.
PHOTO: Taylor Swift performing at Anfield on June 13, 2024 (credit: Gareth Cattermol/TAS24/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management)
