No tickets? No problem. Let the Swifties find a way to see their idol’s sold-out Eras tour in person.
Around 50,000 ticket-free fans gathered in Munich in front of Taylor Swift’s performances on Saturday and Sunday to watch the singer’s concert from Olympic Hill (or Olympiaberg), an elevated position that offers one of the city’s elevations and one of the best views of the stadium.
“For elementary concerts, seats on the hill are almost as coveted as concert tickets, and they are also free,” writes a Munich website.
This is rarely the first time enthusiasts have piled up on the hill due to its prime location. Earlier this year, other people were spotted on the hill for a Metallica concert, and last summer, rock enthusiasts went to see Rammstein for a few days. The Swifts launch at the Taylor Gate (it’s like a backdoor) outside the stadiums, so that ticketless enthusiasts can gather and enjoy the concert’s outdoor music.
However, Swift would probably have broken the record for the most attended female concert in Munich (74,000 more people) and that’s not counting the others on the hill.
The 88-degree heat didn’t stop tens of thousands of fans from flooding the field Saturday and Sunday. Many arrived hours before the show to get a seat, and local police reported that there were another 25,000 people on the hill on Saturday, according to the German newspaper DPA news service, Associated Press.
The 14-time Grammy Award winner thanked his fans inside and outside the stadium on Sunday.
“We’re lucky to be able to play this showcase in front of 74,000 lovely people in this stadium, and if the facts are accurate, around 50,000 lovely people outside the stadium,” the “Shake It Off” singer said. at Sunday’s performance. “Thank you for coming to the Eras Tour, whether you are in the stadium or outdoors. We are very lucky to be here with you.
In a video posted on X’s Saturday show (formerly Twitter), Swift said, “We have other people in a park outside the stadium. Thousands of other people are listening from there. We’ve been made to feel incredibly welcome and we’re going to spend the whole afternoon trying to catch up.
Swift broke records – and parts of Ticketmaster – with the announcement of the Eras Tour on November 15, 2023; They sold more than 2 million tickets that day, which according to the platform is the most tickets sold by an artist in a single day. Its excursion also achieved a record profit of $1. 04 billion in 2023 and is expected to achieve the same success this year.
He will continue the foreign leg of his tour in Warsaw, Poland, on Thursday, where he will play with three before heading to Austria and the United Kingdom in mid-August. After a hiatus, the tour resumed in October with nine in the United States. in 3 cities, and then ended in Canada, from mid-November in Toronto to early December in Vancouver.
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