{"id":269971,"date":"2024-12-09T12:35:52","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T17:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/?p=269971"},"modified":"2024-12-09T16:11:08","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T21:11:08","slug":"taylor-swift-eras-tour-2-billion-in-ticket-revenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2024\/12\/09\/taylor-swift-eras-tour-2-billion-in-ticket-revenue\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift Eras Tour: $2 billion in ticket revenue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As Trung Phan points out in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TrungTPhan\/status\/1866158776203853954\">this post on X<\/a>, Taylor Swift&#8217;s concert tour made over $2 billion in ticket revenue \u2014 so not including merchandise, etc. That&#8217;s almost twice as much as the previous highest-grossing tour, which was U2 with $1.1 billion, and their tour was only two years ago. Even if you factor in higher ticket prices due to inflation etc. that is a massive increase. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"701\" height=\"526\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Home-X-6.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-269973\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Home-X-6.png 701w, https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Home-X-6-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 701px) 100vw, 701px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to People, Taylor has handed out <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/taylor-swift-gave-eras-tour-crew-usd197-million-in-bonuses-exclusive-8758216\">close to $200 million<\/a> in bonuses to the performers in her tour, and to the truck drivers and other staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taylor Swift&#8217;s Eras tour made over $2 billion in ticket revenue, almost twice as much as the previous highest-grossing tour<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":269974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269971"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269986,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269971\/revisions\/269986"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}