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What is Swiftmania? We keep hearing this phrase in connection with the impact that singer Taylor Swift has on the artistic, cultural, social or economic environment. Because after all, her concerts, her world tour brings music into the hearts of her fans and money into the economies of the countries or cities she visits. Here are some interesting facts and figures about Swiftmania and the figures that prove its nickname. 454p59
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What is Swiftmania? 454t1o
Swiftmania is an obsession, i.e. a total attraction to Taylot Swift’s music and concerts. It all started after the covid-19 pandemic in 2023, when the Eras Tour – Swift’s worldwide tour – drew millions of people to the stadiums where the concerts were held and billions of dollars flowed into the s of Taylor Swift and the countries that were visited by the tour.
Industry experts and mainstream publications around the world have characterized the Eras Tour mega-tour as one of the most culturally, economically, socially and politically influential artistic events in decades. Some have called the tour “The Greatest Show on Earth”.
What attracts fans to Taylor Swift? 6yv27
Swift’s fans are attracted to Taylor’s youth and effervescence, her natural beauty and the vivacity she shows on stage. According to a survey conducted by online research company QuestionPro, 58% of Eras tour attendees were aged between 35 and 64, 37% between 18 and 34 and less than 5% under 18. One explanation for her success may have been people’s need to attend music festivals and concerts after 2 years of staying indoors following the restrictions brought on by the covid pandemic…anything is possible, but the package called Taylor Swift is selling very well and creating a frenzy among her fans, many likening it to a mania, hence Swiftmania. Tickets have been in such high demand that ticket prices have had to be adjusted in the parliaments of several countries such as the UK, Ireland and Brazil.
The geo-political implications of Swiftmania 4k103r
The first political curiosity is its bipartisan or bipartisan influence. She always had opinions and expressed them in public mostly through social media, especially on the X platform. Any opinion of hers expressed in public can influence the decisions of voters in the States let’s say. In general her political views are liberal ones that appeal to the broad mass of her fan base and has no limitations of race, gender or sexual orientation. Somewhat natural for an artist who wants success on a global scale. He is said to lean more toward Democrats and less toward Republicans, who are considered conservative.
When it comes to global politics, Taylor Swift’s influence is huge, something akin to Michael Jackson’s influence in the late 1980s, early 1990s. I recall a news story about a month or so ago that also echoed on the Linkedin page of the Prime Minister of Singapore when the latter smugly retorted to a group of Southeast Asian countries at an economic conference in the region that they had lost the chance to have Swift in their country to the detriment of the wealthy city-state of Singapore. Thailand, Taiwan and the Philippines were among the “upset” countries. Singapore’s big-money exclusivity has inflamed neighborly relations in Asia, so great is Swift’s geopolitical influence.
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Who are swifties? Quite simply, they are those die-hard fans who predominantly only listen to Taylor Swift’s music. Older generations may compare these Swift-obsessed people to the era of the Rockers or Depeche-era. Another thing reminiscent of other ages of obsessions is artists who recreate/reconstitute in the smallest detail (voice, movements, dance, etc) a famous artist. Let’s say those Elvises that appeared during or after Elvis Presley’s death that you still stumble upon today in Vegas or Memphis. For example, in the UK there’s Katy Ellis, an obsessed “Swiftie” with an incredible live band and dancers, who promises to deliver the most authentic recreation of a Taylor Swift performance.
The show has already been snapped up by ‘Swiftie’ fans around the world and features all of Taylor’s much-loved hits including Shake It Off, Blank Space, Love Story, You Belong With Me, Look What You Made Me Do, I Knew You Were Trouble and many more.
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Her tour, the Eras Tour, is the highest grossing in history. The Federal Reserve calculated Swift’s economic impact on the US economy at $4.3 billion. For the hospitality industry around the world where Swift has performed, hotels, restaurants and local businesses are estimated to have benefited by billions of dollars. Economic analysts estimate that the impact of Swift’s concerts is comparable to hosting the Olympics or the World Cup. A Mastercard analysis shows that Swift-themed restaurants or restaurants with Swift menus brought in more than $100 million in revenue for their owners. Swift sells big and fast.
Taylor’s two concerts in Denver are said to have brought $140 million in revenue to the Colorado state budget. The presence of Swift’s tour in Los Angeles contributed $320 million dollars to the area’s budget.
Outside the US the Swiftmania figures are equally impressive: $59m to Mexico City, or $230m to Japan or $780m to Melbourne in Australia.
In Europe, Swift represented 1.27 billion dollars for the UK economy, of which 380 million dollars for London. For Paris, Swift’s tour was more economically and touristically beneficial than the Summer Olympics, which hasn’t even started and for which huge sums of money were spent. And for a bit of competition, Swift’s Eras Tour generated 10 times the impact of Beyonce’s Renaissance World Tour and 20 times the impact of Lady Gaga’s Chromatica Ball.
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When you hear the above figures you have a shock and you wonder if it can be true what Swiftmania can mean, but the numbers do not lie, they are not guided by emotion but clearly show that the cultural, social, political and economic shock brought by Taylor Swift’s presence in the cities and states visited boosts them from a socio-economic point of view.
Sources: wikipedia, swiftmania.co.uk, reddit, cheltenhamtownhall.org.uk
