References

Acknowledgements

Thank you to Ben Ruijl for the progress_bar.html code and Andreas Handel for the custom Quarto callouts code.

References

Introduction

“Seven months since the first show in Glendale, Arizona, her Eras Tour has done a projected $2 billion in ticket sales and generated an additional $6.3 billion in direct consumer spending.”1

index.qmd@gdp-comparison-plot, “more in line with the yearly GDP of small nations than a music tour.”2

Setting the stage

index.qmd@fig-taylor-economic-impact-map3

2018 Reputation Tour had 3 million attendees and did only $440 million gross4

In the limelight

index.qmd@tswift-v-others-sankey, top-gross-decades plots 5

Eras is projected to do over $2B6

Opening acts

Spotify and YouTube subscription numbers7

Colophon

sessionInfo()
R version 4.3.1 (2023-06-16)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin20 (64-bit)
Running under: macOS Ventura 13.6

Matrix products: default
BLAS:   /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.3-x86_64/Resources/lib/libRblas.0.dylib 
LAPACK: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.3-x86_64/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib;  LAPACK version 3.11.0

locale:
[1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8

time zone: America/Chicago
tzcode source: internal

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices datasets  utils     methods   base     

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] htmlwidgets_1.6.2 compiler_4.3.1    fastmap_1.1.1     cli_3.6.1        
 [5] htmltools_0.5.7   tools_4.3.1       rstudioapi_0.15.0 yaml_2.3.7       
 [9] rmarkdown_2.25    knitr_1.45        jsonlite_1.8.7    xfun_0.41        
[13] digest_0.6.33     rlang_1.1.2       renv_1.0.2        evaluate_0.23    

Footnotes

  1. QuestionPro Survey↩︎

  2. “List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal).” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 31 October 2023, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal).↩︎

  3. See list of sources here: https://github.com/posit-marketing/taylor-swift-tour/blob/main/data/taylor-economic-impact.csv↩︎

  4. “List of Taylor Swift live performances.” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 31 October 2023, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Taylor_Swift_live_performances.↩︎

  5. “List of highest-grossing concert tours.” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 31 October 2023, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_concert_tours.↩︎

  6. Hur, Krystal. “First on CNN: Taylor Swift’s Eras tour could become the highest grossing tour of all time.” CNN Business, 17 August 2023, https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/17/business/taylor-swift-eras-tour-two-billion/index.html.↩︎

  7. SongStats API, https://docs.songstats.com/↩︎