Taylor Swift Adds Eight Extra Dates to U.S. Stadium Tour - Variety

Taylor Swift announced Friday greeting that she is adding 8 other concerts to the U.S. limb of her 2023 “Eras Tour,” connected apical of the 27 that had previously been unveiled astatine the opening of the week.

In each 8 cases, the caller gig are additions successful cities that were antecedently connected the schedule. In immoderate cases, a single-night basal becomes a two-nighter, and successful different instances wherever 2 nights were already connected the books astatine a venue, a 3rd has been added.

One of the venues that volition present big a three-night basal is Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium. The big venue for this year’s Super Bowl present has a 3rd show, connected Thursday, Aug. 3, 2023, to precede the Aug. 4-5 dates antecedently announced.

Other cities too L.A. that are getting a 3rd nighttime added are Philadelphia (on May 14), Foxborough, Mass. (May 21) and East Rutherford, NJ (May 28),

Locations that are getting a 2nd nighttime are Tampa (April 14), Nashville May 5), Seattle (July 23) and Santa Clara (July 28).

Swift updated the graphic containing each her U.S. circuit dates to see the added shows. As before, it includes symbols to see which 2 opening acts volition look connected which dates, including the caller ones:

Even with these additions, Swift is remaining remarkably existent to the signifier acceptable distant successful her archetypal rollout, which is that she looks determined to lone enactment weekends connected this tour, oregon astatine slightest the U.S. limb of it. The erstwhile shows recovered her booked connected Fridays and Saturdays. Four of these recently announced gigs person her performing connected a Sunday, 3 are connected a Friday, and conscionable one, the L.A. addition, is connected a Thursday, the lone amusement truthful acold that’s falling extracurricular of a three-day weekend.

Tickets are not yet adjacent connected merchantability for immoderate of the shows, truthful if Swift is adding these shows owed to demand, it’s thing her campy is seeing from aboriginal registrations for Ticketmaster’s Verified Fan platform, not existent sales, yet. But it’s besides commonsensical, particularly aft the phenomenal aboriginal occurrence of the caller “Midnights” album, that request is apt to transcend proviso without putting aggregate dates connected merchantability successful astir markets.

Three nights astatine SoFi mightiness dependable similar a batch of supply, connected the look of it, but it’s not unprecedented for popular superstars adjacent successful the abbreviated clip the venue has been open. The Weeknd precocious announced a 3rd day for So Fi that volition service to headdress disconnected his circuit connected Thanksgiving weekend. BTS played 4 nights astatine the L.A. stadium precocious past year, producing a gross of $33.3 million, which Billboard reported astatine the clip was the the largest gross for a tally of shows astatine a azygous determination since 2012. If Swift were to adhd a 4th nighttime astatine immoderate stadium connected her circuit — and that’s a large if — and merchantability them each out, she could bushed BTS’ caller precocious benchmark.

The 2023 circuit begins March 18, 2023 successful Glendale, Ariz., the aforesaid metropolis wherever her past outing, the “Reputation” tour, kicked disconnected successful 2018. (So far, Glendale remains among the cities that inactive person conscionable 1 amusement connected the itinerary.) L.A. is astatine the extremity of the tally successful aboriginal August.

No planetary dates person been announced, though Swift has promised those volition beryllium forthcoming.

The afloat database of recently added shows:

           •       Friday, April 14th – Tampa, FL – Raymond James Stadium

            •          Friday, May 5th – Nashville, TN – Nissan Stadium

            •          Sunday, May 14th – Philadelphia, PA – Lincoln Financial Field

            •          Sunday, May 21st – Foxborough, MA – Gillette Stadium

            •          Sunday, May 28th – East Rutherford, NJ – MetLife Stadium

            •          Sunday, July 23rd – Seattle, WA – Lumen Field

            •          Friday, July 28th – Santa Clara, CA  – Levi’s Stadium

            •          Thursday, August 3rd – Los Angeles, CA – SoFi Stadium