Thousands of new Taylor Swift Eras tour tickets tipped to come on sale in Australia within months

Taylor Swift fans heartbroken over missing out on tickets to their idol’s Australian shows have been thrown a lifeline with news thousands more seats could soon be up for grabs.

Taylor Swift fans have been baying for (bad) blood after her official Australian tour ticket resale was delayed but thousands of new seats will become available before the end of the year.

Heartbroken Swifties who missed out on tickets to her seven Eras tour shows here in February were hanging for the Ticketek Marketplace to open on September 4.

The ticket resale allows fans who may have bought tickets to multiple concerts or can no longer attend to offload their prized concert booty to those desperate to go to a show.

But some fans were crushed when the FAQ page on the Frontier Touring website was updated last week, announcing the indefinite postponement of the resale.

“Please note that the commencement date for Ticketek Resale has been rescheduled with a new date to be advised. Fans will be provided ample opportunity to list tickets ahead of the tour,” the statement reads.

Swift will release side view seats to her Australian stadium shows. Picture: Tom Cooper/TAS23/Getty.

Frontier Touring and Ticketek would not comment on why the September 4 resale was pulled.

Live music industry sources said it was likely only “hundreds” of tickets would end up on Ticketek Marketplace. Australian Swifties have been privately trading any extra Eras seats via social media groups to guarantee they go to deserving fans rather than scalpers.

But industry insiders and experienced American fans have pointed out there will be a bigger opportunity to still score a ticket when thousands of “potentially obstructed side view” seats are released. It is rumoured that sale will happen within a few months.

The bays at the side of the MCG stage will be sold. Picture: Supplied

Partially obstructed seats at Accor Stadium will become available. Picture: Supplied

The venue maps for the MCG, which will host three shows, and Accor Stadium in Sydney where she will perform four concerts, both have several bays at the side which haven’t been offered for sale yet.

From TikTok videos posted by Swift fans at the shows in America, those side view seats offer a good vantage point for most of the concert action, except the very back of the main stage.

But there is a giant video screen anchored to the left and right flanks of the stage which broadcasts all the action they can’t see directly, and Swift makes sure she sings in their specific direction during the three hour show.

“The venue map shows a few bays where they would sell side view seats and by the looks of things that could be thousands of extra tickets,” a source said.

Some of the nosebleed seats in those sections would likely be offered for the lowest price point of the Eras tour tickets here at $79.90.

At some of the American shows, tickets were sold behind the stage but that is unlikely to be the case at the Australian gigs.

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A final, limited allocation of those “obstructed view” seats will be released once the mammoth Eras production rolls into town next year and the tour team can gauge the sightlines from the stage’s flanks.

Swift’s tour is on track to generate more than $1 billion in gross ticket sales for the Eras tour.

So after two pre-sales and a general sale, fans will have three more “official” shots to buy tickets before Swift performs at the MCG from February 16 to 18 and Accor Stadium from February 23 to 26.

Swift will enjoy two other significant boosts to her wealth over the coming months. Her Eras Tour concert film, which will screens in US cinemas on October 13, generated a whopping $40 million in ticket pre-sales last week.

And on October 27 she releases 1989 (Taylor’s Version), the fourth edition of her early albums re-recording campaign to reclaim royalties lost when the label owning the rights to the masters of her first six albums was sold.

Originally published as Thousands of new Taylor Swift Eras tour tickets tipped to come on sale in Australia within months