Taylor Swift ‘provides out Eras tour bonuses totalling $55m’ for performers and crew

Aug 03, 2023 at 2:42 AM
Taylor Swift ‘provides out Eras tour bonuses totalling m’ for performers and crew

If stories are to be believed, Taylor Swift is a really beneficiant boss.

The star is alleged to have given bonuses totalling greater than $55m (about £43m) to performers and crew engaged on her enormous Eras tour, according to US news outlet People.

Swift has rewarded everybody from dancers to riggers, sound technicians, catering workers and extra, the publication stories, citing sources.

Taylor Swift fans buy concert merchandise outside Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., on Thursday, July 27, 2023. (Scott Strazzante/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)
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US leisure outlet TMZ beforehand reported that the 33-year-old star gifted truck drivers $100,000 (about £78,000) every forward of exhibits in Santa Clara, California, over the weekend.

According to stay music commerce publication Pollstar, your entire tour to date has generated an estimated $300m (about £235m) in gross income.

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Gigi Hadid, Mark Zuckerberg, Julia Roberts, Shania Twain, Drew Barrymore, Flavour Flav and Cara Delevingne are among the many well-known faces which have been noticed at among the exhibits.

The Eras tour started in Glendale, Arizona, in March, with the US leg resulting from come to an finish with six dates in Los Angeles beginning on Thursday.

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Swift will then take the present to Central and South America, beginning in Mexico on 24 August, and ending in Brazil in November.

Following a break, the star will decide up the exhibits in Japan in February 2024, transferring to Australia and Singapore earlier than the European leg will get below means in Paris in May 2024.

Swift’s UK gigs happen in June 2024, beginning in Edinburgh and ending in London.

She will cross 5 continents and carry out greater than 130 live shows as a part of the tour – her first huge set of exhibits since 2018.

Fans got a staggered launch of the pre-sale tickets for UK exhibits in a bid to keep away from web site crashes as they rushed to safe entry.

Shows within the US offered out virtually immediately after they went on sale final yr, with followers left battling tech points after the Ticketmaster website was overwhelmed by demand, leading to an investigation into their system.

Swift’s units of greater than 40 songs an evening, with “secret songs” and particular visitors, has to date earned her reward from followers and critics alike.

Sky News has contacted representatives for Swift for remark.