However, Swift did announce that the Eras Tour had over 10 million attendees, making it the second most-attended concert tour of all time (Coldplay‘s Music of the Spheres World Tour managed to keep the record). “We have toured the entire world, we’ve had so many adventures,” said Swift during the final show. “It’s been the most exciting, powerful, electrifying, intense, most challenging thing I’ve ever done in my entire life”.
And although the Eras Tour didn’t break the record for the most attendees, it has become the highest-grossing tour in history, making over $2 billion. More than 10.1 million tickets were sold across the 149 shows, and it became the first tour in history to surpass $1 billion (£786m) in ticket sales.
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What happened at the final show of the Eras Tour?
It wouldn’t be a Taylor Swift concert without surprise songs, and the musician delivered in her own unique way. Not only did she do several mash-ups, she delighted fans with her signature lyric changes to add to the reflective nature of the night.
“I was thinking about it, because we’ve had so long to prepare for the end of this tour,” she told fans during the show. “I was trying to think about what songs encapsulate how I feel about tonight, so I decided to go back to the beginning”.
She kicked things off with a mash-up of “A Place in This World” from her very first album, Taylor Swift, and “New Romantics” from the 2014 album 1989.
Swift then took a seat at the piano and performed an emotional mash-up of three songs: “Long Live” from Speak Now, “New Year’s Day” from reputation, and “The Manuscript” from The Tortured Poets Department. To make things even more sentimental, during “Long Live”, she changed the lyrics from “it was the end of a decade” to “it was the end of an era.”