First things first: Happy birthday,Taylor Swift!
And well it should be.
Nowadays, Swift has become a cultural and economic powerhouse with all the castles and all the bricks.
Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour in Buenos Aires, ArgentinaGetty
Even Swift herself could not have predicted how successful her efforts would be.
In October,1989 (Taylors Version)becameSpotifys most-streamed album of the year…on the day it was released.
Her first appearance at Arrowhead delivered an audience of 24 million viewers as the Chiefs destroyed the Chicago Bears.
Taylor Swift with Beyoncé at the London premiere of ‘RENAISSANCE: A Film By Beyoncé,’ The Eras Tour, Taylor Swift cheers from a suite as the Kansas City Chiefs play the Chicago Bears, Person of The YearTime Magazinecover & 1989 (Taylor’s Version) albumBeyonce/Getty
The week prior, her heavily publicized attendance at a Chiefs-Jets game drew awhopping 27 million viewers.
There were beads and bracelets and Eras Tour hairstylists.
Thats larger than the GDP of a small country.
(These number are all estimates.)
Those dates saw the highest weekend occupancy since the Covid pandemic and the second highest on record.
Notably, Swift was also the rare pop star to get a shout-out by the U.S. central bank.
In Seattle, fans cheered so loud for her that it registered as an earthquake.
Needless to say, Swifts Eras Tour arrived in every city with a bang.
1 exhibitor around the globe, AMC Theaters; the first in a newfound distribution business for the circuit.
The biggest announcement for the film?
Her first post on IG on August 31 announcing tickets were on sale.
Equally for AMC,Taylor Swift: The Eras Tourwas a brilliant move.
The movie would also open on October 13.
Overall, industry presales for all circuits came in at $37 million.
Before its U.S. opening, advance ticket sales onEras Tourreached $65 million.
The movie held onto No.
shes behind the 2009 Michael Jackson concert/documentary featureThis Is It, which counts over $261 million.
Might the series now include a feud with a world-famous pop star?
They were not disappointed.
The season featured nine Swift songs including a snippet of the yet-to-be released Delicate (Taylors Version) fromReputation.
Sources tell Deadline that Swift has not been as involved in securing those music rights as one might think.
All info was and remains mum.
We hear that shes still working on the script.
Cmon now, shes been busy.
The move by the Fearless singer is likely putting the fear of God into the GOP, again.
That translated into 35,000 new registered voters, the nonprofit later said, a three-year record.
Granted, thats no huge number unto itself.
