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Once The Eras Tour ends, Taylor Swift will have grossed more than $590 million in ticket sales, according to Billboard.
69 percent of Mexicans plan to spend on concerts, according to a Deloitte survey.
Mexicans spend between 500 and 800 pesos to go to a concert, not counting the ticket.
As part of the tour The Eras TourTaylor Swift will offer concerts in Mexico, Argentina and Brazil, being the Foro Sol the headquarters of the tour in Mexico City during the 24, 25 and 26 of August. After this announcement, the fandom went crazy.
this tour kicked off March 17 at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, with Paramore and GAYLE as the guest artists. This first Show lasted three hours and 15 minutes with a set list composed of 44 songs corresponding to their 10 albums.
If we consider that each ticket has an average cost of 215 dollars, taking into account that the tour will have a total of 52 dates, Taylor Swift will earn an approximate of 11 million dollars per concertplus sales of souvenirs, according to information from Billboard. Of course, the profits are distributed between the singer and her team.
But it is not only the cost of the ticket, going to a concert implies a series of expenses such as transportation or parking, food, drinks and even souvenirs.
So that you can control what you are going to spend, we recommend:
- Always buy your tickets in authorized centers, avoid resale.
- Keep a budget for food and drinks.
- If you have a car, avoid franeleros and locate the parking lots.
- Have an assigned budget if you are going to use Uber or safe taxi.
On the other hand, in 2022, more than 50 million pesos in festivals and concerts in the Zócalo of the capitalThe most expensive event being that of the Northern Tigers, to which 23 million were allocated and attended by more than 130,000 people. While these massive events are paid for with public resources from the Government of Mexico City.
Taylor Swift tickets are being resold at exorbitant prices
Many Taylor Swift fans who have been waiting years to see their idol are now frustrated, not only because of the various processes that went into getting a ticket for the singer’s August performance in Mexico City, but because now tickets are in the hands of scalpers.
Several fans have denounced the above through social networks where tickets are offered, however, they also there are other resale pages whose prices are quite high. In Ticketmaster the prices ranged from 656 pesos to 10 thousand 450 pesos. For example, in StubHub the tickets are available, but with very high prices, because the cheapest is at 10,000 pesos and the most expensive is resold at 111,892 pesos, an almost priceless figure for many of his fans.
Another page that resells the tickets is called Viagogo, where they are only available for their presentation on August 24; here the prices for the platinum area vary, being offered from 31,000 pesos to 57,000 pesos, it all depends on the row where you want to be seated. The price range managed by the platform indicates that the cost was from 15,513 pesos in the general area to almost 60,000 pesos in the first rows.
The Swifties, the name given to her fans, have expressed their annoyance, as resellers are filling their pockets with prices of more than triple their real value and they assured that the singer’s true fans have been left without the possibility of seeing Taylor. Many of them are alerting other fans about all kinds of resales they find.
In this regard, Ticketmaster alerted Taylor Swift fans that the tickets are not available for printing and it will be until July when they can be printed, so they ask that they only purchase tickets through the company’s official sites.