Taylor Swift more than doubled her net worth just months after hitting the stage for her record-breaking Eras concert tour.
Swift, 34, began the world tour in March 2023 and it quickly became the Due to , Swift extended the Eras run from a little more than 50 to 152 dates across five continents. She ended up performing 149 shows— the concerts in Austria were canceled due to a terror threat— to over 10 million people across five continents.
When starting Eras 21 months ago Swift was already one of the highest earning entertainers in the world. At the time her net worth was around $570 million and within a few months that had jumped to $740 million, according to Forbes magazine.
Before 2023 concluded she reached billionaire status for the first time and was reported to be worth $1.1 billion.
Tour, Royalties, Merchandise, Music Catalog
The Eras tour officially ended on Sunday in Vancouver, Canada, and Swift is now worth $1.6 billion, meaning she almost tripled her net worth since starting Eras. While much of the cash comes from ticket sales, Swift has plenty of different income streams.
According to Forbes, Swift was “the first musician to make the billionaire ranking primarily based on her songs and performances.” Her fortune “includes nearly $600 million amassed from royalties and touring, plus a music catalog worth an estimated $600 million and some $125 million in real estate.”
Some industry experts also estimated that merchandise sales have been a big boon for Swift thanks to Eras and have earned her $500 million since March 2023.
Swift also released her 11th studio album this year, The Tortured Poets’ Department,
Eras, the Movie (and Book)
In December 2023, Swift released a feature length film of Eras, which within days became the highest-grossing concert movie of all time. It brought in nearly $262 million worldwide. Most of those box office takings came in the U.S. where it earned around $181 million.
Thanks to a groundbreaking deal with the AMC theater chain, Swift will earn after her company self-produced the movie and negotiated directly with AMC to distribute it.
Last month, Swift released her first-ever book, The Official Eras Tour Book, which includes never before seen photos of the tour and the musician’s own reflections.
The book sold 814,000 copies in its first week, making it the second-biggest nonfiction debut behind ‘s 2020 memoir, A Promised Land.
The figures used throughout this story are from Forbes. Regalrumination.com has contacted a representative for Swift for try to confirm the information.
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