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I travelled out of PHL on May 14th and the airport was jam packed with swifties. Her fans came from all over the country, many accompanied by at least one parent.
Yes, I think the social media today has made a huge difference. I remember paying $3-5 to see acts like Led Zeppelin , Santana, Pink Floyd, and Jethro Tull at places like Fillmore West and the Berkeley Community Theater as a teen and young adult. There was never any problem getting tickets, even at the door.
I remember seeing Grace Slick perform in Golden Gate Park for free, I also saw the Doors @ the Summer of Love concert in 1967, I don't remember but I think it must have been free because we were broke at the time
I am not a TS fan - couldn't identify one of her songs and really don't get the appeal.... but I do have other artists I follow. One has been singing in public/professionally about 20 years. I saw a number of their concerts from 2010-2016. Drove 3 hours to VT for my first one, ticket was maybe $35? They played in mostly small venues which are my favorite. But then they got pretty popular, won some grammy's, sold out MSG and I've resigned myself to the fact I'll never see them live again. Fan groups consists of two basic camps: those who travel across the country to see as many shows as possible and those who complain they can't get tickets even if they can afford them. There are special presale codes if you know the right people. But the pricing has skyrocketed.
OTOH many older groups are still touring and back in smaller venues.
My first concert was 1980 and I think my ticket was $9.50 (I still have it)
Back on topic - any large event has a huge economic impact to the area be it a concert, sporting event or convention.
(oh wait, I'm looking at my suggested threads below and they are all Taylor Swift. Is she considered country? That's why I don't hear her. I rarely listen to the radio and never to country stations. Though I do know the older country legends)
She used to do country but many years ago switched to regular pop.
Musically, she's ... OK. Catchy pop stuff. I'd call her the modern equivalent of Madonna, I guess, but bigger. I have a couple of her albums. I bought her album 1989 on a whim several years ago because it had been doing so stupendously well in the charts for so long, and I was curious to see what the fuss was all about. It's OK. Then a few years ago I bought her album Folklore, which was pretty good.
But her last couple albums are starting to just sound like "Generic Taylor Swift" and I'm starting to wonder when the mania will start to fade.
This is probably one of her top 1-3 biggest hits, from 1989.
A new report released this week shows just how much Ohioans love Taylor Swift!
In a report from BetOnline, a map showed that the state of Ohio had the most Taylor Swift fans, or "Swifties," in the entire country.
The map is based on geotagged Twitter data in the last 30 days, tracking positive sentiment tweets, hashtags, and direct keyword phrases that identify Taylor Swift fans.
Don't know how accurate that might be but it's interesting nonetheless.
Taylor has been in Denver this weekend and the estimated impact on the local Colorado economy from Taylor Swift alone for ONE WEEKEND is $140 million. That's insane. I will say the traffic has been ridiculous, which has been amplified by the fact that there is also Cirque du Soleil in town, plus several major professional conferences.
That's the good thing about Toronto's stadium being right next to the central train station. When she performed here pre-pandemic, the 11pm/11:30pm trains were much more full than usual, but otherwise the big crowds were able to dissipate quickly.
Don't know how accurate that might be but it's interesting nonetheless.
Probably not that accurate since it was only taken over a 30 day period. During that 30 day period, she had concerts in
Cincinnati (2)
Minneapolis (2)
Pittsburgh (2)
Detroit (2)
So it would make sense that Ohio fans would have a lot to talk about, southern Ohio fans would be going to the Cincy concerts, NE Ohio fans to the Pittsburgh concerts, and NW Ohio fans to the Detroit concerts.
Michigan, Minnesota and Kentucky having a lot of fan activity on twitter given those concert locations would also make sense. Pennsylvania is a bit lower down, but I'd bet there was a lot of activity in W PA, and not so much in E PA (her Philadelphia concerts were a few weeks before their 30 day monitoring period began).
She was also about to perform two shows in Kansas City (July 7 & 8), so that explains why Missouri had a lot of fan activity in anticipation of the upcoming shows right after that 30 day twitter monitoring period. The St Louis area fans would have had to go to either KC or Cincy, since St Louis itself didn't get a tour stop, so if any St Louis area fans were going to see her, it would also have been during that 30 day period.
The main state that jumps out as having unexpected activity is Mississippi. No tour stop in that state, and the closest ones were in Atlanta, Atlanta, Nashville, DFW and Houston, between March 31 and May 7, so ending a full month before the 30 day period.
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