Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour ran from 2023 to 2024 and became a record breaking sensation
Taylor Swift’s highly anticipated new documentary, The End of an Era has finally landed on Disney Plus.
The six episode series, which will see two episodes released every week, gives an intimate look on the huge phenomenon that is the Eras Tour as it made headlines and excited fans around the world.
Disney teases: “In addition, the series features Gracie Abrams, Sabrina Carpenter, Travis Kelce, Ed Sheeran, and Florence Welch, along with her band, dancers, crew, and family members – offering never-before-seen insight into what it took to create a phenomenon.”
As well as the documentary, The Final Show also debuts today (December 12) which is the full concert film from the final show in Vancouver, featuring for the first ever time the entire set of The Tortured Poets Department.
As fans delve into the latest instalments of the brand new documentary, we have taken a look at some of the things that made the Eras Tour so huge.
Over 100 shows and 400 hours performed
The Eras tour ran from 2023 to 2024 meaning that Taylor and her crew performed a record breaking 149 shows.
Originally, the Eras Tour was announced back in 2022 with significantly less dates, but with such high demand, she added more to the diary and it quickly became a huge phenomenon.
The tour first kicked off in Arizona in March 2023 and came to an end in December 2024. In total, it is said the star spent over 480 hours on stage, which is the equivalent to just under three weeks.
As each show varied in length and was dependant on an array of things like the weather, each night was around three hours, making it a huge ambition that was successfully carried out.
According to reports, with 44 songs on her setlist, eventually increasing to 46 after her new album was released in 2024, Taylor also performed songs not on her setlist as part of a special acoustic performance.
The Eras Tour 100th show
Taylor’s 100th show was actually performed here in the UK, in Liverpool. Taking to Instagram, the star said: “So many dreamy memories from Liverpool!! We played our 100th show on The Eras Tour (which feels truly deranged to say because this show feels new to me every time we play it).”
She continued to thank everyone involved, adding the crowds were “expressive, generous and endlessly fun.”
What made the Eras Tour so popular?
The Eras Tour was a huge moment in Taylor’s career, celebrating all of the music through the decades, every era. Taylor took her music everywhere across the world, visiting over 20 countries.
It was a record breaking tour, bringing in over $2billion in sales making it the highest earning concert run. Taylor Swift Touring also confirmed over 10 billion people attended during the course of the tour.
And when it came to breaking records, reports suggest another record was broken when Ticketmaster sold the most tickets sold by an artist in a single day – many Swifties can remember the painstaking wait they endured for tickets.
There are many reasons the tour became a huge phenomenon, being timed post pandemic, but the main reason being it brought together fans of all ages, celebrating her entire career, being described as a huge cultural event.
Earthquake?
You may have seen reports at the time that Taylor Swift concerts generated seismic activity. In 2023 in Seattle, a seismologist said activity was recorded equivalent to a 2.3 magnitude earthquake.
Also in Edinburgh in 2024, reports suggest earthquake readings were again detected.
Friendship bracelets
Taylor Swift friendship bracelets are colourful, beaded bracelets that were made by fans for the Eras Tour, often traded in. Inspired by the song You’re On Your Own Kid, some fans ended up wearing dozens on their wrists, even hoping to give them to Taylor and her mum.
Food bank donations
While on tour, Taylor Swift donated to local food banks and charities when she visited a place.
According to ITV, the singer made a “generous donation” to around 1,400 food banks and community organisations in Edinburgh, Liverpool, Cardiff, and London.
Taylor Swift’s the End of an Era documentary is now available to stream on Disney Plus.