Taylor Swift adds another Las Vegas date to tour

Taylor Swift has added a second date to her Allegiant Stadium tour stop. Vegas gets her “Eras” tour stop a night earlier than planned.

Swift’s Allegiant Stadium debut is March 24. That show is added to the originally announced March 25 date.

She gave us 8 shows last week, honey, but we want ‘em all. 💕 Due to unprecedented demand for tickets to #TSTheErasTour, Taylor has added 17 more shows in the US! https://t.co/ebjX0GgXTu pic.twitter.com/1NQeUZ7vml

— Taylor Nation (@taylornation13) November 11, 2022

Tickets to the added show go onsale 10 a.m. Nov. 18. Swift is using Ticketmaster’s Verified Fan program, which opens Tuesday to fans who have registered. Sign up for Verified Fan has closed. Any tickets remaining for that sale are to be onsale Nov. 18. Tickets are announced at $49-$449, with VIP packages up to $899, not including fees.

Stadium officials confirmed those details Friday. Swift is touring in support of her new blockbuster album, “Midnights.” She is expected to sell out two shows, with the stadium set at at more than 40,000 seats per performance.

Allegiant Stadium General Manager Chris Wright was asked in a recent interview about Swift’s popularity. His reply was swift.

“Massive, just massive. I don’t know what else to say other than it’s just massive,” Wright said. “I mean, an artist who sells to 1.5 million units in the week of announcing a new album is just amazing. And, I certainly don’t need to describe Taylor’s following worldwide is is equally massive, to repeat the word.

“She’s just she’s a special special person, a special artist.”

Wright has lived in Las Vegas for 3½ years, his move aligned with Allegiant’s opening. He says Swift’s stop at Allegiant advances the city’s already growing prominence among stadium destinations.

“There was a channel of stadium programming that was missing from the city,” he says. “That’s why so many local officials, the LVCVA, Las Vegas Events, to partner with the Raiders to build the stadium.”

A tour such as Swift’s “Eras” series would likely have sidestepped Las Vegas, if not for Allegiant.

“Stadium tours would typically either passed over Vegas, or maybe figured out a way to do multiples at the arena level, which is trickier when you’re carrying a stadium production,” Wright said. “This is just a manifestation of the vision that Nevada and Las Vegas had for you had for the stadium, to bring this type of entertainment. Now that is here, this is what we’re experiencing.”

Swift’s 2018 “Reputation Tour” was a monster success, grossing $345.1 million and and playing to 2,888,892 fans. It was the 19th-highest-grossing tour ever, and third-largest tour ever by a female artist, according to the music-industry source Pollstar. But “Reputation” did not stop in Vegas.

The March dates are Swift’s first shows in Vegas in eight years, since May 15, 2015, when she closed the Rock in Rio festival at Las Vegas Festival Grounds. She previously headlined at Mandalay Bay Event Center on May 23, 2009, as part of her “Fearless Tour.”

Released Oct. 21, “Midnights” opened No. 1 on the Billboard 200 album charts, selling more than 1.5 million units, the fastest-selling album of the year. To borrow a term, those sales numbers were “massive.”

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