Taylor Swift spent 484 hours — the equivalent of over 20 straight days — singing onstage during the Eras Tour

Swift originally announced the Eras Tour in late 2022 as a 27-show run across the US.

The demand overwhelmed Ticketmaster’s servers, prompting Swift to add more dates. Before long, the tour swelled into a multi-continent bonanza.

The Eras Tour kicked off on March 17, 2023, in Glendale, Arizona. The first US leg was followed by the Latin America leg, including stops in Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil.

In February 2024, the Eras Tour entered its second year with a four-show stint in Tokyo (famously the same weekend that Swift’s boyfriend Travis Kelce played in the Super Bowl). Next came stops in Australia and Singapore.

The European leg covered 11 countries: France, Sweden, Portugal, Spain, Scotland, England, Wales, Ireland, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, and Poland. Swift was forced to cancel all three planned shows in Vienna after the police discovered and thwarted a terrorist plot.

After returning to the US for another short leg, the tour concluded in Canada with stops in Toronto and Vancouver, bringing the final total to 149 shows across 21 countries.

Swift invited an array of friends, collaborators, and rising stars to open for the Eras Tour, periodically adding new faces and local performers as she traveled the world.

By the end of the tour’s run, the complete slate of openers included, in order of appearance: Paramore, Gayle, Beabadoobee, MUNA, Gracie Abrams, Phoebe Bridgers, Owenn, Haim, Sabrina Carpenter, Louta, METTE, Griff, Benson Boone, Sofia Isella, Holly Humberstone, Suki Waterhouse, Maisie Peters, and Raye.

Several of these artists already had personal connections to Swift. Hayley Williams of Paramore, for example, has been close with the superstar since they were teenagers. When Swift released “Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)” last year, Williams was a featured vocalist on the vault track “Castles Crumbling.” Bridgers has also guested on a rerecorded vault track: “Nothing New,” included on “Red (Taylor’s Version)” in 2021. Similarly, after years of friendship, the Haim sisters lent background vocals to Swift’s 2020 song “No Body, No Crime.”

Most recently, Swift collaborated with Abrams for her album “The Secret of Us.” Their duet, “Us,” is nominated for best pop duo/group collaboration at the 2025 Grammys.

As the name suggests, the Eras Tour was designed to celebrate the many phases of Swift’s 18-year career. Each night, she performed a marathon of songs, stretching from her first crossover hit, 2008’s “Love Story,” to her latest single, 2024’s “I Can Do It With a Broken Heart.” (Her 2006 debut album did not get its own portion of the show, but that’s a complaint for another day.)

Thanks to the ambitious concept, the Eras Tour was easily the longest of Swift’s career in terms of performance length.

While the exact duration could vary from show to show, depending on set list changes or weather delays, the average length of each concert was about three hours and 15 minutes.

Using that as a benchmark, we can estimate that across 149 shows, Swift spent about 484.25 hours singing, dancing, and dazzling the crowd. That’s equivalent to 20 days, 4 hours, and 15 minutes.

To train for the grueling athletic feat, Swift said she ran on the treadmill every day while “singing the entire set list out loud.”

Back in 2021, Swift unveiled the rerecorded version of “Red,” her seminal 2012 album.

The tracklist included the 10-minute version of “All Too Well,” a long-standing fan-favorite deep cut. Swifties had been begging to hear the song in its extended form ever since Swift let slip that she’d cut about half the lyrics she’d originally written.

Fueled by years of anticipation, a cinematic short film, and, of course, a healthy dose of muse speculation, “All Too Well (10 Minute Version)” debuted atop the Billboard Hot 100. It broke the record for the longest No. 1 song ever, previously held by Don McLean’s “American Pie (Parts I & II).”

Later, the song became a staple on the Eras Tour setlist. Swift always performed the full version, which actually clocks in at 10 minutes and 13 seconds. Multiplied by 149 shows, Swift has spent approximately 25.32 hours on the Eras Tour stage singing about her lost scarf and her ex’s casual cruelty.

The Eras Tour set list has always started with “Miss Americana & the Heartbreak Prince” and ended with “Karma.”

Over the course of the tour, a handful of songs were shuffled around, added, or switched out. After Swift’s split from Joe Alwyn was made public, she swapped “Invisible String” (a love song) for “The 1” (a breakup song). To celebrate the release of “Speak Now (Taylor’s Version),” Swift briefly added “Long Live” to the setlist. She periodically performed “Nothing New” and “No Body, No Crime” when Bridgers and Haim were opening those shows.

The set list received its biggest overhaul for the European leg in May 2024, just after Swift released her newest album, “The Tortured Poets Department.” Swift removed several songs and combined “Folklore” and “Evermore” into one chunk in order to make space for a “Tortured Poets” chapter — lovingly dubbed “Female Rage: The Musical” by Swift.

Each show on the Eras Tour included a special acoustic segment, during which Swift played one surprise song on the guitar and another on the piano.

These pairings could be chosen from any album or era, starting with the 2020 deep cut “Mirrorball” and Swift’s 2006 debut single “Tim McGraw.”

Occasionally, Swift would sing a song that wasn’t hers as a duet with that artist, like “Espresso” with Sabrina Carpenter, “Thinking Out Loud” with Ed Sheeran, and “I Love You, I’m Sorry” with Gracie Abrams at the penultimate show.

Swift originally said she wouldn’t repeat songs she’d already played, but that rule was squashed when she replayed “Clean” in New Jersey, claiming she wanted to try the song in a higher key.

During her second show in Buenos Aires, shortly after the release of “1989 (Taylor’s Version),” Swift performed her first-ever mashup on the Eras Tour, combining the popular vault track “Is It Over Now?” with a single from the original album, “Out of the Woods.”

Thus began a new tradition, which saw Swift blending songs that had similar tempos or themes.

If we exclude repeats and songs that had once been in the regular setlist, Swift performed 181 different songs acoustically.

“You’re On Your Own, Kid” was released as the fifth track on “Midnights.” In the outro, Swift sings, “Make the friendship bracelets, take the moment and taste it / You’ve got no reason to be afraid,” which inspired fans to wear and trade bracelets at her concerts.

Swift also tended to repeat “Maroon” (10 times) and “Out of the Woods” (six times).

We don’t know the exact details of Swift’s charity during the Eras Tour, but according to multiple sources, she made a habit of donating huge amounts to food banks in the cities she visited.

Swift didn’t make these donations public, but some of her recipients did, including food banks in Arizona, California, Colorado, Minnesota, Nevada, and Washington. Aditi Desai, chief marketing officer at the Food Bank of the Rockies, told AP News that Swift donated enough for 75,000 meals.

Swift continued this routine when she took the tour overseas, including in several cities across the United Kingdom.

In December 2023, the Eras Tour became the first concert tour to gross over $1 billion, according to the trade publication Pollstar.

Despite the high cost of attendance and even higher resale values, Swift had reportedly sold 4.35 million tickets — and the tour wasn’t even halfway over yet. Her economic prowess, which injected millions into the US economy, would soon affect Europe and other countries around the world.

The morning of Swift’s final performance, The New York Times reported that the Eras Tour had crossed the $2 billion threshold, making it the first concert tour in history to do so.

This figure was confirmed by Taylor Swift Touring, the singer’s production company. The company said over 10 billion people attended the Eras Tour.