It’s Me. Hi. I’m The Eras Tour Weekend Thread | 39M Friday

[Cmasterclay]

All of this talk of Taylor's star power forgot to take in her massive fanbase in Puerto Rico.

[Arlborn]

13 minutes ago, Issac Newton said:

 

 

I guess it isn't continuing the 100M tradition of the franchise then, pity.

Edited October 15, 2023 by Arlborn

[Issac Newton]

 

 

[ListenHunnyUrOver]

1 hour ago, Dale Cooper said:

Well, I think that's a bad comparision for multiple reasons. For one, that album was released twice with sales counting towards the same unit. Secondly, it was released in an era when physical sales, while on a downward trajectory, still were pretty big. It wasn't until 1989 Taylor properly had transitioned into pop, and by then the physical sales market had gone down quite a bit. She's also at her peak of popularity now, and nowadays sales are down the drain. Adele is the big outlier the past 10 years in terms of actual sales, but she also appeals to an audience that's more likely to buy an album.

 

As for touring not being the only measure of success, that is true, but it's the single most important one these days by quite a huge margin. Anyone could potentielly buy an album for 15 bucks, not everyone would be willing to spend 150 bucks on a ticket to a concert. It truly shows how big the demand for an artist is. Taylor could probably have sold 50 million tickets to her current tour if it was possible to play in front of that many on a single tour. Lady Gaga has never ever been anywhere close to that kind of popularity.

Is TFM being "released twice" really a good argument when TS has released multiple versions of almost every album in her discography? The fact of the matter is many albums were released or re-issued in the same era as TFM and didn't accrue nearly as many units. Taylor also has a fanbase that will buy copies in bulk, and buy ten or more copies of a single album to complete a clock artwork or inflate Taylor's sales. A lot of big Taylor songs aren't as well known outside of her fanbase as it appears, because she has many diehards engaging in bulk buying a la BTS fans. Gaga's popularity is being highly underrated in this thread due to recency bias:

 

 

[Bobzaruni]

9 minutes ago, Zakiyyah6 said:

The opening weekend is great but I wish the over hype hadn't happened. People were claiming that it would out open Barbie as if it were a regular movie. It reminds me of the Solo selling more tickets than Black Panther in 24hrs nonsense. 

True, lost in all this is that it 3x'd the previous highest opening in the genre and already beat the previous lifetime gross in just over 2 days

[Issac Newton]

 

 

[Krissykins]

Huge for Taylor’s concert, but yes underwhelming vs tracking. 
 

-58% for The Exorcist: Believer isn’t as bad a drop as was expected. Great hold for Saw X, just wish the total was higher. 

[Geopo]

6 minutes ago, ListenHunnyUrOver said:

Is TFM being "released twice" really a good argument when TS has released multiple versions of almost every album in her discography? The fact of the matter is many albums were released or re-issued in the same era as TFM and didn't accrue nearly as many units. Taylor also has a fanbase that will buy copies in bulk, and buy ten or more copies of a single album to complete a clock artwork or inflate Taylor's sales. A lot of big Taylor songs aren't as well known outside of her fanbase as it appears, because she has many diehards engaging in bulk buying a la BTS fans. Gaga's popularity is being highly underrated in this thread due to recency bias:

 

 

Gaga had a big peak but her career as a whole is not really comparable to Taylor. Taylor is bigger right now than Gaga has ever been.

 

[Krissykins]

$85m worldwide for The Exorcist: Believer after a $15.9m international weekend and The Nun II passed $250m ($257.2m). 

[Dreamss]

19 hours ago, Michael Gary Scott said:

Britney was definitely not bigger

Neither were Rihanna and Adele. Even Beatles members said Taylor’s dominance reminds them of Madonna and the Beatles themselves 

[fmpro]

3 minutes ago, Krissykins said:

$85m worldwide for The Exorcist: Believer after a $15.9m international weekend and The Nun II passed $250m ($257.2m). 

TEB will surely make a lot of money isolated. But the 400 mill investment still looks kind of stupid

[ListenHunnyUrOver]

6 minutes ago, Geopo said:

Gaga had a big peak but her career as a whole is not really comparable to Taylor. Taylor is bigger right now than Gaga has ever been.

 

Taylor has a bigger career overall, but Gaga and Adele had the biggest peaks for sure.

[Krissykins]

3 minutes ago, fmpro said:

TEB will surely make a lot of money isolated. But the 400 mill investment still looks kind of stupid

I know, they’ll need to hope those Halloween Horror Nights tickets are selling very well 😅

[Issac Newton]

 

 

[John Marston]

24 minutes ago, Arlborn said:

I guess it isn't continuing the 100M tradition of the franchise then, pity.

 

for some reason it dropped like a DC movie second weekend 

[Geopo]

11 minutes ago, ListenHunnyUrOver said:

Taylor has a bigger career overall, but Gaga and Adele had the biggest peaks for sure.

They have bigger individual releases globally. But in terms of total album units Taylor is moving right now through her whole catalogue + her tour, it can be argued Taylor is bigger right now.

In the US specifically Fearless was bigger than TF and TFM (they are easy to compare given that they were released at similar times). And Taylor debut is still bigger than any other Gaga so they aren't even that close in the US specifically given that Taylor has a lot of bigger albums.

Edited October 15, 2023 by Geopo

[Issac Newton]

Taylor Swift: The Era Tour

 

In flash Friday and Saturday grosses, AMC owns 95 of the top 100 highest grossing theater spots or 41% of the overall exhibition marketshare of the weekend. The only non-AMC theaters in the top 100 are No. 44 Regal Irvine Spectrum, No. 73 Regal Bridgeport Village in Portland, OR, No. 83 Cineplex Winston Churchill in Toronto, No. 96 Cinemark Moosic in Wilkes Barres and No. 99 Regal Fresno Riverpark in California. Top theater in the nation was AMC Disney Springs in Orlando with $239K so far, followed by AMC Lincoln Square with $217K, then third is AMC Boston Common with $199K. Cinemark had 13.8% of the weekend’s tickets sales on Swift, Regal was 13.2%, Canada’s Cineplex was 5.7% and Marcus was fifth with 2.5%.

 

EntTelligence breaks down Eras Tour foot traffic as follows: 19% came before 1PM, 33% between 1PM-5PM, 36% between 5PM-8PM and 12% after 8PM.

[GSNDJB]

23 minutes ago, ListenHunnyUrOver said:

Taylor has a bigger career overall, but Gaga and Adele had the biggest peaks for sure.

Nah. Musically, taylor‘s 2023 is the biggest year of 21st century, she is moving 30+million units WW and nobody can touch her, and not to mention that she is currently on the biggest tour EVER as well. 21/TFM is arguably bigger than 1989/Midnights but that’s just one metric. It’s ridiculous to say Taylor’s 2023 is not the biggest year in modern pop music cause she is smashing in literally every aspect of music consumption and even the film industry, her whole discography is streamed/selling like hot cake rather than just one album

Edited October 15, 2023 by GSNDJB

[Borobudur]

Unlike other big opening, Eras tour isn't causing big impact to the holdovers. Saw X, Creator and Venice all have incredible holds!

[AniNate]

That's honestly pretty impressive given all the anxiety about Swifty insanity disturbing adjacent theaters