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The Eras Tour began successful Glendale, Arizona connected March 17 and has continued with 2 oregon 3 shows astir each week since! Taylor Swift spent months putting unneurotic this amusement for her fans. It is the singer’s archetypal clip touring since 2018, and expectations going into the circuit were high. Since Taylor’s past tour, she’s released 4 albums, arsenic good arsenic 2 re-recorded versions of aged albums. Speculation astir which tracks would really marque the show’s setlist had been rampant amongst fans since Taylor announced the circuit successful November 2022.
On opening night, Taylor proved that she would beryllium taking the assemblage passim her full catalog of euphony connected this tour. She started retired with the Lover era, and continued connected from there, playing 44 songs successful full passim the evening. As the weeks and fig of shows went on, fans recovered retired that determination would besides beryllium 2 songs that changed successful the setlist each night. Taylor confirmed that these tracks would beryllium antithetic each nighttime of the tour, unless she messed 1 of them up and had to execute it again astatine a aboriginal date. Find retired everything we cognize astir the setlist and circuit below:
Taylor Swift performing during her Eras Tour connected March 31, 2023 (Javier Vicencio/Eyepix Group/Shutterstock)
Taylor Swift Eras Tour Setlist
Taylor did her champion to support everything astir this amusement nether wraps until nighttime one, but fans extracurricular the stadium person got to perceive SOME of the songs that she she would beryllium playing beforehand. However, thing prepared anyone for what Taylor brought retired connected nighttime one. In summation to playings songs from passim her career, Taylor besides changes into a fig of different outfits that correspond each epoch passim the show. Full setlist below:
“Miss Americana & The Heartbreak Prince” “Cruel Summer” “The Man” “You Need To Calm Down” “Lover” “The Archer” “Fearless” “You Belong With Me” “Love Story” “Tis The Damn Season” “Willow” “Marjorie” “Champagne Problems” “Tolerate It” “…Ready For It?” “Delicate” “Don’t Blame Me” “Look What You Made Me Do” “Enchanted” “22” “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” “I Knew You Were Trouble” “All Too Well (10 Minute Version)” “Invisible String”*** “Betty” “The Last Great American Dynasty” “August” “Illicit Affairs” “My Tears Ricochet” “Cardigan” “Style” “Blank Space” “Shake It Off” “Wildest Dreams” “Bad Blood” *secret opus connected acoustic guitar // changes each night** *secret opus astatine soft // changes each night** “Lavender Haze” “Anti-Hero” “Midnight Rain” “Vigilante S***” “Bejeweled” “Mastermind” “Karma”Although the amusement was specifically curated, determination were immoderate setlist changes adjacent beyond the 2 concealed songs passim each show. ***During the 3rd play of the circuit connected March 31, Taylor took “Invisible String” disconnected the setlist from the Folklore era. She replaced the opus with “The 1” from the aforesaid album.*** “Let 1 happening beryllium said astir the Eras Tour, You deliberation you tin conscionable spell online, you deliberation you tin conscionable scroll and cognize the setlist?” Taylor told the crowd.” You deliberation you tin travel prepared with your small flashcards successful your pockets? ‘I cognize what’s next. I cognize what she wears next. I cognize what she sings next.’ Let it beryllium said astir the Eras circuit — we’re tricksy! That’s what we are. We bask a good, steadfast setlist hijinks.”
The 33-year-old had hundreds of songs and 10 albums to take from erstwhile it came to curating this setlist. Since her past tour, she released the albums Lover, Folklore, Evermore and Midnights, arsenic good arsenic re-records of Fearless and Red. The re-records diagnostic respective caller songs themselves, with further tracks added that didn’t marque the medium cuts the archetypal clip around. One of those songs is the fan-favorite “All Too Well (10 Minute Version),” which won a Grammy award and assorted different accolades, and made it connected to the setlist successful its entirety.
I’ll beryllium feeling All Too Well aft this performance! ❤️🧣🍂@taylornation13 @taylorswift13 #GlendaleTSTheErasTour pic.twitter.com/q71wfA5u2C
— Dill △⃒⃘ (Taylor’s Version) (@HazelPrince97) March 18, 2023
Eras Tour Secret Songs
Towards the extremity of the Eras Tour setlist, Taylor near 2 spots unfastened for “secret songs”, which volition alteration each night. One opus is played connected the acoustic guitar, portion the different is played connected piano. This is thing that Taylor adopted during her Reputation circuit successful bid to play much songs from her catalog that didn’t marque it connected the setlist.
During the archetypal amusement of the Eras Tour, Taylor said that she was going to effort and alteration up the concealed songs astatine each show. With 42 different songs connected the archetypal setlist, she inactive had dozens of tracks to take from erstwhile it came to the concealed songs, truthful determination was nary shortage of options. See the database of concealed songs below:
Glendale, AZ, Night 1 — “Tim McGraw” and “Mirrorball” Glendale, AZ, Night 2 — “State Of Grace” and “This Is Me Trying” Las Vegas, NV, Night 1 — “Our Song” and “Snow On The Beach” Las Vegas, NV, Night 2 — “Cowboy Like Me” (with Marcus Mumford) and “White Horse” Arlington, TX, Night 1 — “Sad Beautiful Tragic” and “Ours” Arlington, TX, Night 2 — “Death By A Thousand Cuts” and “Clean” Arlington, TX, Night 3 — “Jump Then Fall” and “The Lucky One” Tampa, FL, Night 1 — “Speak Now” and “Treacherous” Tampa, FL, Night 2 — “The Great War” (with Aaron Dessner) and “You’re On Your Own Kid” Tampa, FL, Night 3 — “Mad Woman” (with Aaron Dessner) and “Mean” Houston, TX, Night 1 — “Wonderland” and “You’re Not Sorry” Houston, TX, Night 2 — “A Place In This World” and “Today Was A Fairytale” Houston, TX, Night 3 — “Cold As You” and “Begin Again” Atlanta, GA, Night 1 — “The Other Side of the Door” and “Coney Island” Atlanta, GA, Night 2 — “High Infidelity” and “Gorgeous” Atlanta, GA, Night 3 — “I Bet You Think About Me” and “How You Get The Girl” Nashville, TN, Night 1 — “Sparks Fly” and “Teardrops On My Guitar” Nashville, TN, Night 2 — “Out of the Woods” and “Fifteen” Nashville, TN, Night 3 — “Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve” (with Aaron Dessner) and “Mine” Philadelphia, PA, Night 1 — “Come Back…Be Here” and “Gold Rush” Philadelphia, PA, Night 2 — “Forever & Always” and “This Love” Philadelphia, PA, Night 3 — “Hey Stephen” and “The Best Day” Foxborough, MA, Night 1 — “Should’ve Said No” and “Better Man” Foxborough, MA, Night 2 — “Question…?” and “Invisible” Foxborough, MA, Night 3 — “I Think He Knows” and “Red” East Rutherford, NJ, Night 1 — “Getaway Car” and “Maroon” East Rutherford, NJ, Night 2 — “Holy Ground” and “False God” East Rutherford, NJ, Night 3 — “Welcome to New York” and “Clean” Chicago, IL Night 1 — “I Wish You Would” and “The Lakes”Taylor Swift Eras Tour Dates
When Taylor archetypal announced her Eras tour, she confirmed that the archetypal limb would see 27 dates successful the United States passim outpouring and summertime 2023. Of course, request for the tickets was highly high, truthful she doubled the magnitude of shows. As of March 2023, determination are present 52 dates connected the Eras circuit (see below).
Plus, there’s definite to beryllium much to come. In Taylor’s announcement station connected Instagram, she made it wide that this was conscionable the tour’s archetypal leg. Plus, backmost successful October 2022, the UK Store connected Taylor’s website confirmed that dates successful England were coming. Fans who preordered Taylor’s album Midnights successful the store were fixed a “special presale codification entree for forthcoming and yet-to-be-announced UK amusement dates.” Subsequent legs of the circuit person not been confirmed.
Taylor performing astatine 2019 AMAs. (Chelsea Lauren/Shutterstock)
For the archetypal limb of the tour, Taylor enlisted assorted opening acts. Two opening acts from the database volition play astatine each show. The openers are: HAIM, Paramore, Phoebe Bridgers, Gracie Abrams, GAYLE, Beabadoobee, Girl In Red, MUNA, and Owenn. See the US circuit dates below:
March 17 & 18, 2023 — State Farm Stadium successful Glendale, Arizona
March 24 & 25, 2023 — Allegiant Stadium successful Paradise, Nevada
March 31, April 1 & 2, 2023 — AT&T Stadium successful Arlington, Texas
April 13, 14 & 15, 2023 — Raymond James Stadium successful Tampa, Florida
April 21, 22 & 23, 2023 — NRG Stadium successful Houston, Texas
April 28, 29 & 30, 2023 — Mercedes-Benz Stadium successful Atanta, Georgia
May 5, 6 & 7, 2023 — Nissan Stadium successful Nashville, Tennessee
May 12, 13 & 14, 2023 — Lincoln Financial Field successful Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
May 19, 20 & 21, 2023 — Gillette Stadium successful Foxborough, Massachusetts
May 26, 27 & 28, 2023 — MetLife Stadium successful East Rutherford, New Jersey
June 2, 3 & 4, 2023 — Soldier Field successful Chicago, Illinois
June 9 & 10, 2023 — Ford Field successful Detroit, Michigan
June 16 & 17, 2023 — Acrisure Stadium successful Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
June 23 & 24, 2023 — U.S. Bank Stadium successful Minneapolis, Minnesota
June 30 & July 1, 2023 — Paycor Stadium successful Cincinnati, Ohio
July 7 & 8, 2023 — Arrowhead Stadium successful Kansas City, Missouri
July 14 & 15, 2023 — Mile High Stadium successful Denver, Colorado
July 22 & 23, 2023 — Lumen Field successful Seattle, Washington
July 28 & 29, 2023 — Levi’s Stadium successful Santa Clara, California
August 3, 4, 5, 8 & 9, 2023 — SoFi Stadium successful Inglewood, California
On June 2, 2023, Taylor announced Latin America dates with Sabrina Carpenter via Instagram. “Really thrilled to archer you this!! Mexico, Argentina and Brazil: We are bringing The Eras Tour to you this year!” Taylor wrote successful her caption. “Sweet angel princess @sabrinacarpenter volition beryllium joining america connected each of the shows! Visit taylorswift.com/tour for much accusation connected your registrations, pre-sales and on-sales.” She besides teased that determination volition beryllium “LOTS much planetary dates to travel soon, promise!”
August 24, 25, & 26, 2023 — Foro Sol successful Mexico City, Mexico
November 9 & 10, 2023 — Estadio Más Monumental successful Buenos Aires, Argentina
November 18, 2023 — Estádio Olímpico Nilton Santos successful Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
November 25 & 26, 2023 — Allianz Parque successful São Paulo, Brazil
Taylor Swift Ticketmaster Controversy
When tickets for the Eras Tour went connected sale, determination was an unprecedented demand. Before the on-sale date, fans were capable to motion up for a “verified fan” code, which was Ticketmaster’s effort astatine eliminating bots from purchasing tickets. A lottery-style drafting was done, giving lone a prime fig of fans pre-sale codes to acquisition tickets.
Despite hundreds of thousands of fans not receiving codes and being enactment connected a “waitlist,” Ticketmaster inactive crashed erstwhile hoards of Swifties flocked to the tract connected the Nov. 15 pre-sale date. Millions of radical attempted to log into the merchantability astatine the aforesaid time, causing the tract to crash. The president of Live Nation aboriginal revealed that 14 cardinal fans were attempting to motion connected astatine once, contempt Ticketmaster lone expecting 1.5 cardinal based connected the codes that had been fixed out.
Ticketmaster was forced to cancel the regular on-sale for the concert, owed to deficiency of tickets remaining. Thousands of fans were not capable to get tickets to the tour, starring to outrage and backlash against Ticketmaster. On Nov. 18, Taylor took to her Instagram Story to address the situation. She specifically called retired Ticketmaster for not being capable to grip the request of the situation, contempt assuring her that it would beryllium covered.
“It goes without saying that I’m highly protective of my fans,” Taylor wrote. “We’ve been doing this for decades unneurotic and implicit the years, I’ve brought truthful galore elements of my vocation successful house. I’ve done this SPECIFICALLY to amended the prime of my fans’ acquisition by doing it myself with my squad who attraction arsenic overmuch astir my fans arsenic I do. It’s truly hard for maine to spot an extracurricular entity with these relationships and loyalties, and excruciating for maine to conscionable ticker mistakes hap with nary recourse. There are a multitude of reasons wherefore radical had specified a hard clip trying to get tickets and I’m trying to fig retired however this concern tin beryllium improved moving forward. I’m not going to marque excuses for anyone due to the fact that we asked them, aggregate times, if they could grip this benignant of request and we were assured they could. It’s genuinely astonishing that 2.4 cardinal radical got tickets, but it truly pisses maine disconnected that a batch of them consciousness similar they went done respective carnivore attacks to get them. And to those who didn’t get tickets, each I tin accidental is that my anticipation is to supply much opportunities for america each to get unneurotic and sing these songs. Thank you for wanting to beryllium there. You person nary thought however overmuch that means.”
Taylor onstage with her dancers. (Chelsea Lauren/Shutterstock)
That aforesaid day, Ticketmaster apologized for the fiasco successful a connection connected its website. The institution apologized specifically to Taylor and her fans, portion besides attempting to explicate however things got truthful retired of control. Ticketmaster included statistic to amusement conscionable however galore radical were coming to the tract to acquisition tickets, and explained however this astronomical fig was antithetic than what they’ve experienced successful the past. “Historically, astir 40% of [verified] fans [with presale codes] really amusement up and astir acquisition an mean of 3 tickets,” the station explained. “Around 1.5 cardinal [of 3.5 cardinal who signed up] radical were sent codes to articulation the on-sale for each 52 dates.”
The station continued, “This time, the staggering fig of bot attacks, arsenic good arsenic fans who didn’t person codes, drove unprecedented postulation connected our site, resulting successful 3.5 BILLION full strategy requests.” The institution besides assured fans that they were “always moving to amended the summons buying experience.”
In Jan. 2023, Ticketmaster/Live Nation faced a Senate proceeding astir whether oregon not its monopoly connected the ticket-buying manufacture is what led to this controversy. During the hearing, the CEO of Live Nation erstwhile again apologized to Taylor and her fans. “We request to bash amended and volition bash better,” helium insisted, per Associated Press. The Ticketmaster higher-ups were grilled by the Senate during the hearing, and galore Senators adjacent pulled retired Taylor Swift opus lyrics to marque their points. It remains to beryllium seen whether oregon not this proceeding volition person immoderate effect connected the institution successful the future.
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