Breaking Down the Jaw-Dropping Cost and Numbers for Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour From Shipping to Tickets

Taylor Swift officially made billionaire status in 2023, and the global superstar certainly hasn’t cut costs when it comes to putting on the best show possible for her fans during the Eras tour. A fan broke down the costs for the tour on X.

The Eras tour production gear weighed “1,697,440 lbs” and took up “19,200 sq ft worth of containers on a 964 ft cargo vessel” that transported the material to Europe, X user @SoLongLiz explained on Wednesday, October 16. Liz added that “2,206 separately tagged items” were “spread across 60 XL (40ft) shipping containers.” Two of those containers were labeled “wardrobe and dry cleaning,” and then another three containers held the props Taylor, 34, used for her performances. Liz also said that there were “containers for the lighting, cameras & video, pyro, merch, cabin, and Folkmore trees.”

“The Eras Tour shipment was declared at a total value of $15,398,920 USD - inclusive of freight and insurance. While we don’t have the precise shipping and insurance costs, using the industry standards for a shipment of this size, it usually costs around $80k for freight and $76.5k for insurance,” she continued.

Liz concluded by citing her source as the U.S. Borders and Custom Protection and wrote, “So according to Taylor’s own company - Firefly Productions - and her freight contractor, The Eras Tour production equipment, stage, lighting, costumes, instruments and assumably everything else you see when she’s on stage, costs more than $15,000,000 USD.”

While $15,000,000 seems like quite a chunk of change, it pales in comparison to the amount Taylor has raked in over the last year with the Eras tour. In December 2023, Forbes reported that the tour had broken a record when it became the first concert tour in history to gross over $1 billion. Plus, it actually hit the billion mark just from her shows in 2023 alone, and the number didn’t include the profits from the remainder of her shows in 2024 .

Pollstar reported that the “I Can Do It With a Broken Heart” singer “sold a mind-boggling 4.3 million tickets at an average ticket price of $238.95, putting her average show gross at a massive $17,321,063.” The outlet added that these tickets weren’t even the highest priced tickets for performances by musical artists in 2023, either. Taylor’s average ticket price for her 2023 shows was actually less than Adele’s .

The Eras tour broke plenty of records not relating to money and costs, as well. Taylor’s opening concert in Glendale, Arizona, shattered Madonna’s record of having the most attendees. The Glendale show brought in 69,000 fans while Madonna previously held the record with 63,000, according to Newsweek . Taylor also broke a record that was previously held by Michael Jackson when she played eight sold out shows at Wembley Stadium .

Plus, it wasn’t even just the live concerts breaking records for the “All Too Well” artist. Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour , the movie version of the show, was the first concert movie to ever receive a Golden Globe when it was nominated for the newly created category Best Cinematic and Box Office Achievement. However, the award went to Barbie .