Topline
Taylor Swift added seven songs from her latest album, “The Tortured Poets Department,” to her first show of the Eras Tour since the album release, which took place Thursday night in Paris, marking the first major shift in the tour’s setlist since it began last March.
Taylor Swift reworked the setlist on her record-breaking tour to include seven songs from “The ... [+]
Key Facts
Swift added abridged versions of “But Daddy I Love Him,” “Who’s Afraid Of Little Old Me?,” “Fortnight,” “The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived,” “I Can Do It With A Broken Heart,” and samples of “So High School” and “Down Bad.”
To make room for the new era, Swift cut “The Archer,” “The Last Great American Dynasty,” “The 1,” “‘Tis the Damn Season,” and “Tolerate It.”
Swift also adjusted the order of the eras in her first show back after a two-month break, moving the “Red” era up in the show, the “reputation” era later and combining the “folklore” and “evermore” eras.
Swift also performed “loml,” a song from “Tortured Poets,” during a part of the show where she rotates in surprise songs that she plays acoustically.
During the show’s intro—during which a recording of Swift mentioning something from each era plays—fans noticed the addition of her singing “straight from the Tortured Poets Department,” hinting that new songs would be added.
Key Background
Swift previously adjusted the setlist just twice: once to add fan-favorite “Long Live” to the “Speak Now” era after she released her re-recorded version of the album last July—though the song was cut in Paris—and, after less than a month of performing the tour, she replaced “Invisible String” with “The 1” during the “folklore” era. Fans suspected she would add music from her new album, which was released April 19, after Swift posted a video clip of her rehearsing with something that looked like a “TTPD” logo attached to a railing. The addition of the new album comes as Swift is a little more than halfway through her Eras Tour, which is scheduled to continue through Europe before returning to North America at the end of 2024. The tour is already the highest-grossing tour of all time, grossing $1.04 billion across its first 60 shows, according to Pollstar estimates.
Tangent
Swift’s new album—which was actually a 31-song double album—broke countless records after its April release. It became the most-streamed album in a single day and week on Spotify, broke the record for the most sales of a vinyl album in a week and became the top-selling album of the year. The album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Top 200, and songs from the album held the top 14 spots the week after the album came out on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
Forbes Valuation
We estimate Swift’s net worth to be about $1.1 billion as of Thursday afternoon. Swift became a billionaire in October, in large part due to the success of the Eras Tour and its concert movie, which was released in theaters in October.
