Taylor Swift, record ticket revenues over 2bn. Her tour surpasses Elton John and Coldplay

A resounding worldwide success. This is the only way to define the Eras Tour of Taylor Swift: 149 concerts - all sold-out - in 21 months, for ticket sales of more than 2 billion dollars, 2,077,618,725 dollars to be exact, more than double any other tour in music history. The record figures were confirmed to the New York Times by Taylor Swift Touring, the singer's production company. A total of 10,168,008 people attended her concerts, at an average cost of about $204 per ticket.

Taylor Swift thus surpasses even Sir Elton John and Coldplay and his tour has become the most lucrative in music history over the course of its 149 performances, the last one on Sunday night in Vancouver, Canada. A figure that doubles any other concert tour, even Elton John's farewell tour, which in five years grossed $939 million in more than 300 shows, and Coldplay's Music of the Spheres, more than $1 billion in some 170 dates. And this tally excludes both earnings from retailers on the secondary market, where seats exceeded their face value by thousands of dollars, and merchandise sold at concerts.