Salvador Leon Navarro |
Madrid (EFE).- The confirmation of Taylor Swift as the female singer with the most number one albums in history comes while she is on tour in countries like Spain, where she has a stop on May 30, and where her fans have fought for their tickets, showing that they are true followers of the singer.
“The Eras Tour” is intended to be a review of the artist’s entire career and has aroused the expectation of fans around the world, who have not only sold out each recital, but have dedicated themselves to requesting a number on various dates scheduled in different countries to qualify for access to the virtual queue.
A process designed for “true fans”
As Ticketmaster, the Spanish ticket sales platform, has indicated to EFE, the process “is designed to favor and prioritize the purchase of true fans”, for which they have “an advanced system” of confidential operation that allows analyzing variables that indicate whether, firstly, the buyer is a robot and, secondly, if he is a true admirer.
However, the high demand for tickets and the existence of limited dates (despite the density of the tour’s concerts, which reach thirteen in the United Kingdom) has caused social networks and resale websites such as StubHub or TicketSwap to fill up with tickets that often exceed double the original price and for which up to 6,000 euros have been requested.
In the case of Madrid, the original prices ranged from 85 euros, in the rear amphitheater, up to 589 euros, the cost of the VIP pack that ensured tickets with better visibility and accessories such as a pin or a cloth bag.
A single concert in Spain
Swift will make a single stop in Spain on May 30 for her concert at the Santiago Bernabéu stadium (Madrid), whose 65,000 seats were sold in half an hour, in contrast to the recital that the singer gave at WiZink in 2011, before her transition from country to pop, where she did not get a full house.
On this occasion, the expectation for the arrival of the artist is such that she has even starred in statements by the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, during his interview on the podcast “La pija y la quinqui”, where he has described her as an artist, “an example of many things, the first of overcoming”.
award record
The concert boom has been accompanied by the rise to the top of the Billboard chart for her album “Speak Now”, a milestone that occurs for the twelfth time in her career. With this new number one, she breaks the record held by Barbra Streisand, with eleven albums, only surpassed in male singers by Jay-Z, with fourteen albums, and the Beatles, with nineteen.
Likewise, Swift has become the first living performer with four albums in the top two hundred (“Midnights”, fifth; “Lover”, seventh, and “Folklore”, tenth) since trumpeter Herb Alpert achieved it in 1966.
“Speak Now” is a cover of the same title and songs from a 2010 album, except for a few new features to appeal to owners of the previous record. Her publication responds to the singer’s maneuver to re-record her first six albums with the aim of being able to perform live and obtain revenue for those songs whose recordings belong to the Big Machine record company, which prohibited her from using them.
The artist has done the same in 2021 with the albums “Fearless” and “Red”, recorded in a facsimile way to those of yesteryear, and to which has been added, in 2022, an album of new songs entitled “Midnights”, which has made her the first artist in history to monopolize the top ten positions on Billboard headed by “Anti-Hero”, the single from the album.
economic claim
Taylor Swift concerts have already been considered a vital attraction in some American cities by stimulating the local economy by filling hotel capacity and encouraging consumption: an example of this is its inclusion in the report of the US Federal Reserve, the Fed, drawn up by the twelve regional central banks to evaluate the country’s economy in detail.
It states that Philadelphia’s hotel revenues have reached their highest levels in May after the pandemic motivated by the singer’s three recitals in the city, with an attendance of 68,000 spectators each.
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