Here in Australia, Taylor Swift's gigantic “Eras” tour is just a distant memory – but as the superstar travels the globe on her two-year world tour, other countries have also caught Swift fever.
Swift is currently in Germany, where she performed two sold-out shows at Munich's Olympic Stadium over the weekend.
Extraordinary footage from inside the stadium shows that thousands of fans who were unable to get tickets gathered at the highest vantage point in a nearby park, hoping to hear the show and catch a glimpse of the singer.
According to estimates by the German police, there were around 40,000 people in addition to the approximately 63,000 visitors in the stadium, which, according to fans on social media, made for an “insane” spectacle.
Swift herself acknowledged the Hilltop listening party on stage during her show, telling the crowd, “We have people in a park outside the stadium, thousands of people listening from out there!”
Here in Australia, fans who were unable to get tickets were strongly advised not to go to the shows and wait outside as promoters tried to avoid crowds around the huge shows.
Swift is in the home stretch of her Eras tour, which is scheduled to end in Vancouver in December, almost two years after it began.
Last month, she made a special announcement for the tour's 100th show in Liverpool, UK.
Swift acknowledged the milestone by saying that she was “blown away” to have done 100 shows.
“That doesn't feel like a real statistic to me, because that was definitely the most exhausting, most comprehensive, but also most joyful, most rewarding and most wonderful thing that has happened to me in my life in four years. Those moments with you,” she said.
She told the audience that she would mark the occasion by publicly confirming for the first time that the tour will end in December. The final shows of the tour are currently scheduled for December 6, 7 and 8 in Vancouver, Canada.
It is not yet known whether Swift has any further final shows planned to conclude the tour this month.
“Celebrating the 100th show means for me, for the very first time, acknowledging and admitting that this tour will end in December,” she said.
By the end of Eras, there will be 152 shows planned, making it Swift's longest tour yet, almost three times as long as her last tour, Reputation World Tour, in 2018, which included 53 shows.
And it hasn’t stopped her musical work: Since her first performance in March last year, Swift has released a new double studio album, The department for tortured poets, and two “Taylor's Version” re-recordings of their previous albums, Speak Now and 1989.
