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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.

Walker Scobell opens up about the dangerous chariot sequence that left him stunned as Percy Jackson season 2 premieres on Disney Plus

A star from Percy Jackson and the Olympians has revealed details of a “crazy and terrifying” stunt filmed for the second season.

The newest chapter of the Disney Plus series has arrived on the streaming service, with the opening two episodes now available. Viewers will need to tune in weekly as Percy and his companions embark on a fresh quest into unexplored territory.

This season adapts the second novel in Rick Riordan’s hugely popular book series, the Sea of Monsters, with Disney Plus promising “action packed mayhem and higher stakes than ever”.

The streaming giant reveals: “After Camp Half-Blood’s protective border is breached, Percy Jackson embarks on an epic odyssey into the Sea of Monsters in search of his best friend Grover and the one thing that may save the camp – the legendary Golden Fleece.

“With help from Annabeth, Clarisse and his newfound cyclops half-brother Tyson, Percy’s survival becomes essential to stopping Luke, the Titan Kronos, and their impending plan to bring down Camp Half-Blood – and ultimately, Olympus.”, reports the Express.

Despite only two episodes being released, there’s already been plenty of thrilling moments for audiences – with one sequence leaving the cast particularly impressed.

Viewers will remember scenes featuring chariot racing, an ancient mode of transportation and competitive sport that involves controlling a two-wheeled vehicle drawn by horses.

Leading star Walker Scobell, portraying Percy Jackson, has spoken candidly about the chariot sequences and the “crazy” and perilous nature of filming them.

Walker revealed: “So on the first day of filming I didn’t know I was going to do any chariot riding, right? Because it’s so dangerous: I got to watch some test footage of them going out and messing around out there before we were filming and it looked terrifying.

“I was like, ‘Okay, I’m not doing that.’ But I get there on the day and they’re like, ‘Hop in! Just kind of drive the chariot around the second part of this oval stadium and then park right in between these two horses…’ So, I had to learn right there. It was crazy.”

For Leah Jeffries, who portrays Annabeth Chase, the chariot sequences proved equally memorable, describing it as “one of my most fun days.”

Executive producer Jonathan Steinberg acknowledged the ambitious nature of the scene, explaining it was among the elements he was most eager for audiences to witness: “Our goal was to push this thing as far as it would go and then push it a little further. The chariot race was scary.

“I mean at the end of the day, we want the show to be great and we take that really seriously, but we also want everybody to be safe and okay. And strapping kids to horses at full speed… it just doesn’t seem like a good idea when you start planning it.

“So, the fact that we were able to do that and have it turn out great and also have everybody walk away from it smiling was a big deal.”

Percy Jackson and the Olympians season 2 is available to stream on Disney Plus.