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7d agoTAYLOR IS ON STAGE
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7d agoSabrina Carpenter finishes her set. Next stop: Taylor Swift
7d agoCute video from the fans
7d agoSabrina Carpenter takes the stage
7d agoWho is Sabrina Carpenter?
7d agoWhat are the different eras – and how to dress for them?
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7d ago08.19GMT
Steph Harmon
We got another missive from a fan, Scott!
“I’m at MCG,” he writes. “Apparently boyfriends of Swifties attending the concert are required to wear Kansas Chief shirts. I assume there is a need to assert their cis-ness. I on the other hand feel the need to assert my sissy-ness.”
We love you Scott!
This feels like a good time to call out my colleague Claire Keenan, who rocked up to her shift like this:
7d ago08.11GMT
Sabrina Carpenter finishes her set. Next stop: Taylor Swift
Steph Harmon
One person in the Guardian group chat has assessed it as “fine”; another says the Olivia Newton-John cover was the highlight, but mainly because “I don’t know a single song of hers”.
In more exciting news, someone has already uploaded the outro to Nonsense (the part she changes for every performance/city).
Taylor Swift on at 8pm! What should we order for dinner??? Send us ideas at melb.eras@guardian.co.uk
John emailed the Guardian just now with this beautiful note:
I am in my 70s. Two years ago I had scarcely heard of Taylor Swift. Now here I am following your blog of her Melbourne concert. It is very moving. I hope all these wonderful young people have a magnificent time. I haven’t had this much fun since the Beatles in the 60s. It was easier to get tickets then.
You can also send us your thoughts on: melb.eras@guardian.co.uk
7d ago08.03GMT
Cute video from the fans
Molly Glassey
Dressing for a Taylor Swift concert is no easy feat. The concert is a journey through all Swift’s musical eras, broken up among her 10-album discography, and as we explained earlier, each “era” demands a very specific dress code.
Tisha Aisyah Afliansh says as a recently engaged Taylor Swift fan she had no choice by to encompass the Lover era.
“I just found this [dress] in H&M, but this has Lovers colours. And also matching rings and necklace; love, love.”
Sarah Allsopp recreated the You Need to Calm Down music video, with fake butterfly tattoos on her back. After a quick YouTube search and little dance, I can confirm Swift sports the same back tattoo in the film clip. Guardian fact-checking at it’s finest right there.
Bree Leitch went one step further and got a snake tattoo on her arm “for the concert”. And yes, it’s real.
7d ago07.59GMT
We’re getting some good Twitter/X footage, which bodes well for reception!
Here is Sabrina Carpenter performing Vicious.
And here’s that Olivia cover:
7d ago07.42GMT
Crowds are filling the stadium now while Sabrina performs. She’s doing a cover of Hopelessly Devoted to You, in honour of Olivia Newton-John.
Here’s one of Sabrina’s hit songs, Nonsense.
7d ago07.33GMT
Apparently Sabrina just said “Australians are so hot”, which, true.
In other news, our Guardian group chat is popping off!
Sian said earlier:
The vibes are very calm! It’s like the opposite of a sport game.
Even the cops have bracelets on.
I expect this has changed now that the concert has started.
Matilda shared a pic of the free light-up bracelets she’s secured:
Sian shared her girl dinner pre-concert:
And our colleague Meadow Nguyen got a Tay Tam!
7d ago07.30GMT
Sabrina Carpenter takes the stage
Oooh here she is!
And here:
7d ago07.28GMT
Matilda Boseley
What to expect from Sabrina Carpenter’s set?
We are told there was “just an announcement and some cheers” from within the stadium, indicating Sabrina Carpenter is on stage.
Carpenter’s hit songs are Feather and Nonsense, so they will definitely get a run – but Nonsense has its own moment to watch out for: each time she plays it live she adds a few city-specific (and usually sexually explicit) lines to the outro.
For example:
“I just wanna ride him like a rodeo / But first he gotta grow it like Pinocchio / Sorry I’m so vulgar, San Antonio.”
In fact, they got so raunchy that her performance on BBC’s Live Lounge was taken off YouTube shortly after being uploaded, and was promptly replaced with a version cutting abruptly before the outro.
Luckily we have no such qualms – she sang:
“I’m American I am not British / So BBC it stands for something different / This live lounge is just so lit because I’m in it.”
It’s a savvy trick that means each time she plays you can be sure hundreds of videos will be uploaded by fans. Now a viral sensation, she was quickly snapped up by Swift to open for her during the international leg of her tour – and since her first Eras slot, she’s established another TikTok-able moment: a small dance section of the song Feather.
7d ago07.21GMT
Who is Sabrina Carpenter?
Matilda Boseley
We’re ten minutes from the scheduled start time for Sabrina Carpenter’s opening set. We all know Swift’s 2016 villain arc (the Kanye West video) and redemption story (arguably the Lover era), but did you know that Carpenter has been through this public-opinion hero’s journey too?
The US pop star started off on the Disney Channel, playing Maya Hart on Girl Meets World. She put out a few songs during her stint on the show, and was liked well enough, but it was a different Disney star that threw Carpenter into the public eye: Olivia Rodrigo, whose hit debut album Sour was almost definitely about her breakup from Joshua Bassett, who, according to the album at least, began dating another girl VERY shortly after their split.
The hints in the lyrics of Rodrigo’s songs hint at who that girl could have been: Sabrina Carpenter, seen hanging out with Bassett in the months after the breakup – and who suffered the wrath of the internet as a result.
Luckily, she’s very funny – and as the initial wave of hate died down, she started winning people over on social media with posts like this.
And here she is meeting fans at Melbourne airport – and receiving her first koala.
Less than a week after watching her boyfriend, Travis Kelce, win the Super Bowl, Swift played to the biggest concert crowd of her career while performing at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) in Australia during the first run of 2024 Eras dates, following four shows in Tokyo.
In a clip posted on X (formerly Twitter), Swift told fans at Melbourne Cricket Ground, “96,000 people the first night, 96,000 people the second night, 96,000 people tonight. All of that, those are all the biggest shows I've ever played on a tour and you did it three times.”
18, Melbourne: "Come Back...Be Here" and "Daylight" mashup; "Teardrops On My Guitar." Feb. 17, Melbourne: "Getaway Car," "August" and "The Other Side of the Door" mashup; "This Is Me Trying."
How much does Taylor Swift make per concert? Taylor Swift makes approximately a jaw-dropping $13.6 million (£10.73 million) per concert she performs at, according to Forbes.
Swift's inclusion comes after Forbes declared the singer a billionaire in October 2023 and reported her net worth at $1.1 billion. In a rare feat, Swift is the first musician to reach the milestone solely from songwriting and performing.
All told, TayTay bags seven of the top 10, breaking the record for most titles by one artist in the top 10, beating her old mark of six. When Swift was confirmed by the IFPI Wednesday (Feb.
Because for three consecutive nights in Melbourne (Australia), the performer offered the most massive concerts of her entire musical career. In each of the shows she performed on Australian soil more than 96,000 spectators were present in front of the stage to enjoy their show.
American pop sensation Taylor Swift reportedly checked into the presidential villa at Crown Towers in Melbourne, a luxurious accommodation costing US$16,000 per night, during the Australian segment of her “The Eras Tour.” According to Hello!
She also owns numerous pricey properties across the U.S. Both Bloomberg and Forbes pin her net worth at an estimated $1.1 billion on the low end, based on analyses of her fortune. Swift first achieved billionaire status in October when she released a re-recording of her nine-year-old album "1989," Bloomberg reported.
Eras Tour night one introduced a career-spanning, whopping 44-song setlist with a runtime of more than three hours, with Swift playing anywhere from one to eight tracks from all 10 of her full-length studio albums.
Taking into account the total number of dates, the artist will earn approximately $11 million per concert, plus whatever is sold in merchandise. However, profits are distributed between Swift and her team, including the concert's promoter and other production expenses.
Taylor Swift has joined the exclusive billionaire club, thanks to her highly successful Eras tour. According to a report from Bloomberg, the 33-year-old pop star has amassed a net worth of about $1.1 billion, primarily from her music.
Rod Stewart's New Year's Eve Concert (1994) - 4.2 million
Rod Stewart's 1994 New Year's Eve Concert at Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro is the biggest concert in history. It had 4.2 million people and was free.
The oldest 100,000-crowd concert reported to Billboard Boxscore is Grateful Dead's gig at the Raceway Park, Englishtown, New Jersey on September 3, 1977. The concert was attended by 107,019 people, which remains the largest ticketed concert in the United States to date.
After Oliver's heartfelt plea on social media to share Scarlett's story, Swift's team reached out to the family, granting her the opportunity to meet Swift and receive the coveted 22 hat during the singer's Sydney show on Friday. Scarlett was picked from the sold-out crowd of more than 80,000 people during the concert.
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