ALBAWABA - Taylor Swift wraps up her record-breaking Eras Tour, celebrating immense achievements.
With her record-breaking Eras Tour, which brought together Swifties at 149 events in 51 countries, Taylor Swift marks the conclusion of a chapter. For almost two years, Swift and her team have been traveling; she kindly praised her staff for enabling everything to come together. Since the tour started on March 17, 2023, the "Anti-Hero" actor reportedly has added $197 million in incentives to his pay.
This announcement coincides with claims that Swift's tour covering her history brought her over $2 billion in ticket sales with a final gross total of $2,077,618,725. The New York Times notes that Swift's success qualifies as "double the gross ticket sales of any other concert tour in history and an extraordinary new benchmark for a white-hot international concert business."
People claim, meanwhile, that Swift paid a sizable portion of this amount to reimburse the five different continents' worth of pulled-off-site workers. Swift's $197 million in bonuses went to everyone from the beauty and wardrobe teams and dancers to stage production personnel and truck drivers, per the report. This additional salary was distributed to physical therapists, restaurants, and the merchandise team. According to earlier accounts, she had paid $55 million in bonuses at the end of her North American tour.
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Although the publication did not specify exactly how the big money was split, Michael Scherkenbach, the owner of a trucking company Swift hired for her Eras tour, recently stated that she awarded around 50 truck workers "life-changing" $100,000 bonuses last year.
Even for a billionaire of Swift's level, a $197 million incentive would sound like a lot, but she has spoken about how her crew was really essential for enabling her to complete the toughest Eras Tour obstacles. In her recently published book, The Official Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour Book, she said that covertly including her Tortured Poets Department record into her current concert presented an "ambitious as hell" opportunity needing all hands on deck.
She added, "We conceptualized and practiced it secretly and surprised the Paris crowd with it when we started our European leg of the tour." "It was ambitious as hell, but we pulled it off, creating what I think is the most dramatic, cathartic, female-rage-driven part of the night."
