Taylor Swift adds two more Aussie shows amid ‘unprecedented’ demand

Aussie fans desperate to get their hands on a ticket to her Eras tour have been given two extra chances following “unprecedented” demand.

Aussie Swifties have been granted two additional opportunities to score tickets to the singer’s highly-anticipated Eras tour.

On Thursday morning, Frontier Touring announced that one extra show had been added to both the Melbourne and Sydney legs, following “historically unprecedented demand” for tickets.

Swift is bringing her Eras Tour to Australia. Picture: Kevin Mazur/Getty Images

It had been previously announced that Swift would play two shows at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on February 16 and 17 2024, before moving to Sydney’s Accor Stadium for a three-show run on the 23rd, 24th, and finishing up on the 25th.

There will now be an additional show in Melbourne at the same venue on February 18, with an extra also tacked on in Sydney on the 26th.

There has been an “unprecedented” demand for tickets. Picture: Shanna Madison/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service

It means Swift, 33, will become the first artist since Madonna in 1993 to perform three concerts at the MCG - and the first artist ever to perform four at Sydney’s Accor Stadium.

General ticket sales for all of the shows will open via Ticketek from 10am tomorrow for Sydney and then 2pm for the Melbourne run.

The venue map for Taylor's Sydney shows.

... And for the Melbourne run.

During Wednesday’s presale event, it was reported around four million fans were fighting it out for tickets to the shows, with a total of just 450,000 tickets available, including presales and general sale.

Swift’s Eras tour, on track to become the highest-grossing music tour of all time, encompasses her vast body of work over the past 17 years, and is split into 10, non-chronological ‘eras’ for each of her albums.

The more than three-hour long show kicks off with Lover (she performs six songs from this album), before moving onto Fearless (three songs), evermore (five songs), reputation (four songs), Speak Now (one song), Red (four songs, including the 10 minute version of All Too Well), folklore (seven songs), 1989 (five songs), Taylor Swift (one song) and wrapping with seven songs from her most recent album, Midnights.

Meanwhile, Ticketek confirmed yesterday that there is actually no online “queue” to purchase tickets, and that Swifties stuck in the site’s “lounge” are then selected at random to proceed onto the actual Ticketek site to try and nab tickets.

“Everyone in the Ticketek lounge has an equal opportunity to get into the site regardless of when they have arrived,’’ a spokesman said.

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