Taylor Swift Eras Australia Tour: When & Where to Buy Tickets?

The fight to get pre-sale tickets to Taylor Swift’s Eras tour will be tough. Here are the best tips to scoring them.

Taylor Swift performs onstage. Picture: Kevin Mazur/TAS23/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management.

Swifties, you best be ready.

Ever since Taylor Swift announced last Wednesday that she was bringing her Eras tour to Australia, with five shows in Sydney and Melbourne in late February 2024, group chats around the nation have lit up frantically organising the game plan come ticket day.

And the day has come: Pre-sale tickets for Swift’s Eras tour to Australia commences in less than an hour – 10am at Ticketek for Frontier Touring members – but you knew that already.

On Monday, the first presale tickets for the very expensive VIP packages, available only to American Express customers, crashed the Amex website for about an hour and sold out almost immediately. Plus, remember how Swift’s first tour in five years in the US in March sparked a frenzy so big that it crashed TicketMaster’s website?

There’s no two ways about it: It’s going to get wild out there.

But so you’re as ready as you can be to get your hands on the coveted tickets, here’s everything you need to know – including insider tips to giving yourself the best chance to score tickets.

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• When do Taylor Swift Eras Australia tour tickets go on sale?
• Where to buy Taylor Swift Eras Australia tour tickets?
• How much will Taylor Swift Eras Australia tour tickets cost?
• What are the dates for Taylor Swift Eras Australia tour?
• What songs will Taylor Swift perform on Eras Australia tour?
• What are the top tips for getting tickets for Taylor Swift Eras Australia tour?

Taylor Swift has announced her world tour dates for The Eras Tour. Picture: Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift performs onstage during "Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour". Picture: Kevin Mazur/TAS23/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management.

WHEN DO TAYLOR SWIFT ERAS AUSTRALIA TOUR TICKETS GO ON SALE?

General tickets will go on sale Friday, June 30. For the Sydney show, tickets will be available from 10am local time and for the Melbourne show, from 2pm local time.

Pre-sale tickets go on sale Wednesday, June 28 for Frontier Touring members at Ticketek – at 10am for the Sydney shows and 2pm for the Melbourne shows.

You must have already signed up as a member of Frontier Touring and received your personalised code.

WHERE TO BUY TAYLOR SWIFT ERAS AUSTRALIA TOUR TICKETS?

Tickets for the Australian tour can only be purchased at Ticketek with a limit of four tickets per customer.

HOW MUCH WILL TAYLOR SWIFT ERAS AUSTRALIA TOUR TICKETS COST?

The tickets will cost between $79.90 (for G Reserve) and $379.90 (for A Reserve), plus the handling charges.

VIP package prices, which include tickets and exclusive merchandise, starts from $349.90 to $1,249.90. For example, the “It’s Been A Long Time Coming Package” costs $1249.90 and comes with an A-Reserve floor seat and “VIP Tour Laminate & Matching Lanyard”.

WHAT ARE THE DATES FOR TAYLOR SWIFT ERAS AUSTRALIA TOUR?

Swift will perform in Melbourne at the MCG on February 16 and 17, and in Sydney at Accor Stadium on February 23, 24 and 25.

She will unfortunately not be playing in Perth, Brisbane, Adelaide or the other states and territories.

Taylor Swift performs during opening night of the Chicago Eras Tour at Soldier Field on June 2. Picture: Shanna Madison/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images.

WHAT SONGS WILL TAYLOR SWIFT PERFORM ON THE ERAS AUSTRALIA TOUR?

Swift’s Eras setlist is certainly one for the ages. She performs for a massive three hours with only small breaks for costume changes. The singer performs songs from every single one of her ten albums except her eponymous debut.

The show starts with the Lover album before going through to Fearless, evermore, Reputation, Speak Now, Red, folklore, 1989 and Midnights.

But Swift also surprises fans with two additional songs every night. These surprise songs are performed in between the 1989 and Midnights sets. She only plays each surprise song once so it’s bad luck if your favourite has been played on the tour already. Swift has also revealed she will repeat a song only if she makes a mistake or if it is from her latest album, Midnights.

Swift’s Australian shows will be supported by American singer and actor Sabrina Carpenter.

WHAT ARE THE TOP TIPS FOR GETTING TICKETS FOR TAYLOR SWIFT ERAS AUSTRALIA TOUR?

There is no use sugar-coating it, the demand for tickets is going to far outstrip the number of tickets. So to ensure you have as smooth a checkout as possible, we spoke to Ticketek to get their best tips.

“It’s never too soon to start preparing and these simple steps will ensure you’re prepared when tickets go on sale,” says a Ticketek spokesperson.

They advise:

•Double check your Ticketek account and payment details are up to date. Have your login details handy as you’ll need them to complete your purchase.

•If you are a Frontier Member, save your pre-sale code. This will be sent to you by Frontier Touring and will be needed to access the Frontier Pre-sale.

•Gather your fellow fans and plan your purchase by agreeing on the performance date, ticket price category and any packages you want to purchase.

For when the tickets go on sale, Ticketek shared the following tips for the best chance of getting through to purchase your tickets.

•Visit Ticketek at least 15 minutes prior to tickets going on sale. Follow the designated link for your desired city to be taken to the Ticketek Lounge.

•Please don’t leave the Lounge page or refresh your browser. The page will refresh itself frequently to let more fans through to purchase. Once you’re in the Lounge, sit tight and wait to be let through to the event page.

•Once you’re through, keep an eye on the timer and complete your purchase within the time frame.

Taylor Swift performs onstage during Taylor Swift The 1989 World Tour Live In Los Angeles at Staples Center on August 25, 2015. Picture: Christopher Polk/TAS/Getty Images for TAS.

According to Twitter user @marieeldrid, who “fought in the Battle of Ticketmaster in November 2022 for the Eras Tour” in the US, these are her tips to getting tickets.

•Make sure your Ticketmaster (or Ticketek in our case) account is complete with all your info before the sale. Add your card details in advance, ideally more than one card. Set up a PayPal just in case (my card payment didn’t work, so PayPal saved me).

•When tickets go on sale, DO NOT open the page on multiple devices or windows. For the USA presale, we could only use one device and one page. If you wanna do multiple, you need multiple accounts with different emails.

•Decide in advance what’s the most you’re willing to pay. Make sure you have that sum on your account, as the prices and extra fees might be more than you expect. When I got through the queue, I had to choose between $800 VIP seats and nosebleeds, which were still overpriced.

•Make sure you’re online and logged in 5-10 minutes before the sale starts. You CANNOT be late, or else you’ll be in the end of a queue with tens of thousands of people. You need to get in as early as possible.

•The queue – I had to wait over 2 hours. The website might crash, too. Try not to refresh the page if you can and make sure your internet connection is stable that day.

•The goal is to see an actual number in the queue and not “2000+ people” ahead of you. Fun fact: if you pull up the page code, you can see the competition. I was behind 15.000+ ppl. But once you see an actual number, you’ll be on the ticket page in a few minutes.

•Once you get to the sale page, you have to be FAST! No time to think, just grab the first tickets you can afford and run to the check out. Getting your hands on the tickets for the popular dates from resellers will be hard, so you really want to succeed during the official sale!

Good luck, Swifties! See you in the queue.

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