Don't have tickets? No problem. Swifties will find a way to see their idol's sold-out Eras Tour in person.
An estimated 50,000 ticketless fans gathered in Munich outside Taylor Swift's shows on Saturday and Sunday to watch the singer's concert from Olympic Hill, or Olympiaberg, a vantage point with one of the highest elevations in the city and a perfect view of the stadium below.
“For big concerts, seats in the Capitol are almost as coveted as tickets to the concert, and they are free for free”, a Munich travel website writes.
It's not the first time fans have flocked to the hill for its prime location. Earlier this year, people They were spotted on the hill for a Metallica concert, and last summer rock fans was Over the course of a few days, Swifties themselves would often go see Rammstein. Taylor's Gate (this is like a tailgate) outside the stadiums, so that fans without tickets can gather and enjoy the music from outside the concert.
However, Swift I may have broken the record for the most attended women's concert in Munich (74,000 attendees), and that's not counting the people on the hill.
The 88-degree heat didn't stop tens of thousands of fans from crowding the green zone on Saturday and Sunday. Many arrived hours before the show to secure a spot, and local police were on hand to keep watch. reporting Some 25,000 people gathered on the hill on Saturday, according to German news agency DPA, via the Associated Press.
The winner of 14 Grammy Awards Grateful Fans inside and outside the stadium on Sunday.
“We are blessed to be able to play this show for 74,000 beautiful people in this stadium and, if reports are correct, for about 50,000 beautiful people outside the stadium,” the “Shake It Off” singer said during Sunday’s show. “Thank you for coming to the Eras Tour, whether you’re in the stadium or outside the stadium. We are so lucky to be here with you.”
in a video published in X (previously on Twitter) of Saturday’s show, Swift said: “We have people in a park outside the stadium. Thousands of people listening from there. They’ve made us feel incredibly welcome and we’re going to spend all night trying to make it up to them.”
Swift broke records – and parts of Ticketmaster – with the announcement of the Eras Tour on November 15, 2023; the website sold more than 2 million tickets that day, which the platform says is the most tickets sold for an artist in a single day. His tour also reached a record 1.04 billion dollars in revenue in 2023 and is projected to do the same this year.
The international leg of her tour will continue on Thursday in Warsaw, Poland, where she will play three shows before hitting Austria and the UK in mid-August. After a break, the tour will resume in October with nine shows in three US cities and then wrap up in Canada, with shows from mid-November in Toronto to early December in Vancouver.
