Taylor Swift announces UK, Europe and Asia tour dates for her Eras tour

Taylor Swift has announced planetary dates for her record-breaking Eras tour, with shows acceptable for UK, Europe and Asia successful 2024.

The popular prima volition play 9 shows successful the UK, with concerts successful Edinburgh, Liverpool, Cardiff and London.

There is besides a spread connected Glastonbury's last night, with the prima rumoured to beryllium reclaiming the header slot she missed successful 2020 owed to the pandemic.

The archetypal limb of the circuit has seen her play to grounds audiences successful the US.

Demand for the tickets was truthful precocious that it overwhelmed Ticketmaster's systems, with thousands of fans near incapable to get seats.

The fiasco led to Ticketmaster being hauled successful beforehand of US senators to reply questions connected the company's handling of the event.

Swift herself said it was "excruciating" to ticker fans struggling to get tickets, and that she had been assured Ticketmaster could header with the demand.

For the UK dates, fans person been invited to registry involvement via Swift's website, though those who tried to bash truthful aft the announcement were enactment successful a agelong queue.

After registration closes, fans volition beryllium sent a acquisition nexus for tickets. The London dates past spell connected merchantability connected 18 July, followed by Edinburgh connected 19 July and Cardiff connected 20 July.

"We expect determination volition beryllium much request than determination are tickets available," Ticketmaster warned those who successfully registered.

"Tickets volition beryllium sold connected a archetypal come, archetypal served ground portion currently-available inventory lasts".

Taylor Swift's 2024 UK dates:

Eras is Swift's archetypal satellite circuit since 2018, since erstwhile she has released 4 caller workplace albums, including the Grammy Award-winning Folklore.

Music work Billboard has estimated the summons gross from the 52-date US circuit to beryllium $591m (£464m).

Those shows launched successful March, with Swift playing a three-hour, 44-song acceptable spanning the entirety of her signaling career.

As good arsenic hits similar Shake It Off, Love Story and Lover, she plays 2 "surprise" acoustic songs astatine each show, often bringing retired peculiar guests to help.

So far, the acoustic conception has included instrumentality favourites similar Mirrorball, Snow On The Beach and Getaway Car alongside much mainstream hits similar Welcome To New York and her debut azygous Tim McGraw.

Fans person been clamouring for planetary dates for months, and the circuit hold volition spot her play successful Asia and Australia astatine the commencement of 2024, earlier reaching Europe successful May.

Reactions from 'Swifties' - a word the popular prima has trademarked and uses to telephone her fans - successful Asia person already been chaotic connected societal media.

She volition statesman her Asia circuit successful the Japanese superior Tokyo, wherever she volition play for 4 nights opening 7 February. She volition past marque her mode to Australia, performing archetypal successful Melbourne for 2 nights, and past 3 nights successful Sydney.

Her Asia limb ends successful Singapore, the lone South East Asian state successful her Eras tour, wherever she volition acceptable up signifier for 3 nights ending connected 4 March.

The UK dates volition footwear disconnected astatine Edinburgh's Murrayfield Stadium connected 7 June, and wrapper up with 2 nights astatine London's Wembley Stadium successful August.

Two earlier Wembley shows look to clash with Glastonbury's archetypal 2 nights. But she has a abstraction successful her diary connected Sunday 23 June, which means she could adjacent the festival with a header slot connected the Pyramid Stage.

Reviews for the US limb of the Eras circuit person been overwhelmingly positive.

"The queen of popular reclaims her throne," declared The Times, adding: "If determination is simply a information that shifting betwixt 10 specified antithetic albums could pb to an uneven acquisition it is someway avoided here, with Swift managing to nutrient a cohesive acquisition contempt the perpetually changing outfits and backdrops."

"It's been a agelong hold backmost to this moment, but karma is, indeed, a queen - and this was worthy the wait."

"The accomplishment is often staggering," concluded Billboard, "with costume changes, set-piece upheaval [and] susceptible moments successful a assemblage of thousands and sing-alongs that volition rival the scope of immoderate circuit this year."

There person been reports of fans who couldn't get tickets gathering successful car parks extracurricular venues to sing on with the star's songs.

Other fans person reported suffering a signifier of amnesia aft the show, owed to the overwhelming quality of the experience.