Taylor Swift

Adding to an already impressive year of making and breaking records, Taylor Swift will become the first ever artist to perform three concerts at Melbourne’s AAMI Park, and even more impressively, will be achieving the feat on a single tour.

Frontier Touring are thrilled to confirm that global superstar Swift will be adding a third and final Melbourne show date to The 1989 World Tour on Thursday 10 December, following overwhelming demand for tickets to the now sold out Friday 11 and Saturday 12 December shows. Tickets to the new show will be on sale to the general public from 10am AEST, Thursday 23 July.

No further dates will be added to the tour; this will be Australian fans’ last opportunity to catch the biggest performer in the world at the top of her game. Swift herself says the tour experience “…almost feels as if you are in a different world”.

The 1989 World Tour has gathered shining reviews across Asia, North America and Europe since kicking off in Tokyo earlier this May:

'Never one to do things halfway, Swift has made this a pop show — or rather the pop show, as far as 2015 is concerned.' - Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone Magazine

'Swift has become a commanding stadium-sized pop star.' - Hardeep Phull, NY Post

‘Playing to 65,000 people, Taylor Swift's 1989 was everything we wanted in a concert… A show of lights, glitter and kick-ass sisterhood, Swift told the audience she would "remember this night for the rest of [her] life" and, well, after that performance Taylor, so will we.’ - Alice Howarth, Glamour Magazine

'[The 1989 World Tour] is the obvious end result of Operation 1989 World Domination' - Erin Strecker, Billboard Magazine

'Judging by the screams echoing long after she left the stage, it’s safe to say that Taylor knows exactly how to entertain a 65,000 strong crowd and keep them dancing for days afterwards. Seriously though, we’re still dancing.' - Charlotte Warwick, MTV

With 140 million album sales worldwide including eight million copies of 1989 – ­her iconic fifth album – alone, Taylor Swift is one of the biggest pop stars to ever grace the charts and live stage.

She is the only artist in history to have three albums sell more than a million copies in their first week of release: 1989, Red (2012) and Speak Now (2010) and was the only artist in 2014 to have two singles take the top spot on Billboard’s Hot 100 Chart, dethroning her own smash hit ‘Shake It Off’ with its follow-up ‘Blank Space’. The charts have been equally kind to Swift in 2015 with current single ‘Bad Blood’ (ft. Kendrick Lamar) becoming the fourth-consecutive #1 release from 1989.

In addition to chart success, Swift has received seven Grammy Awards, 16 American Music Awards and 22 Billboard Music Awards and is the youngest recipient of the Grammy for Album of the Year, the Country Music Awards’ Entertainer of the Year and Billboard’s Woman of the Year. In 2014 alone, Swift was awarded the inaugural AMA Dick Clark Award for Excellence, named IFPI’s Global Recording Artist and 1989 was awarded iTunes’ Album of the Year.

Demand for tickets across the entire The 1989 World Tour has been massive and Swift’s third and final Melbourne show is expected to be just as popular. Don’t miss the chance to witness one of the world’s most talented and adored performers as her impassioned songwriting comes alive on stage this summer.

Joining Taylor Swift for all shows will be Melbourne’s own singer-songwriter, Vance Joy. The talented musician has been on the road with Swift as her main support for The 1989 World Tour which sees him performing to hundreds of thousands of fans across multiple countries for the remainder of the year. To celebrate the tour, Vance Joy released a stunning, stripped back cover of Swift’s ‘I Know Places’ which has racked up close to 900,000 views on YouTube since its release two months ago.

The show is sponsored by Cornetto and tickets to Swift’s third and final Melbourne show are on sale next Thursday 23 July. American Express Card Members will be able to access pre-sale tickets to the new show from 10am AEST, Thursday 16 July. Very limited tickets remain to all other shows on the Australian leg of The 1989 World Tour, on sale now via Ticketek Australia. 

Taylor Swift has reaffirmed why she’s one of the hottest female artists in the world, selling out Melbourne’s AAMI Park stadium in less than an hour this morning.

To meet demand for tickets a second show has been added for Saturday 12 December 2015, ensuring even more fans get a chance to see the superstar in action.  Tickets to this new show will go on sale from Ticketek.com.au 132 849 at 10.30am today.

Touring in support of her #1 ARIA charting album 1989, The 1989 World Tour will see Taylor performing in Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide and Melbourne in Nov/Dec 2015.

In Australia her album 1989 has gone double platinum after just six weeks and has held the #1 and #2 spots for three weeks apiece on the ARIA Album Chart.   Notably the album had the highest first week sales of any album in Australia in 2014.
 
Taylor’s first single ‘Shake It Off’ is now triple platinum and spent three weeks at #1.  Current single ‘Blank Space’ is platinum and has spent three consecutive weeks at #1.

Joining Taylor Swift at her Melbourne shows will be local sensation Vance Joy.  Also touring with Taylor on the North American leg of The 1989 World Tour, Melburnian Vance is sure to get a big welcome from his home crowd.

Tickets to Taylor Swift’s new Melbourne concert go on sale at 10.30am today.  Tickets to her Sydney, Adelaide and Brisbane shows go on sale at 10am local time today.  Don’t miss out on The 1989 World Tour!

Fresh from selling four million copies worldwide of latest album 1989, global superstar Taylor Swift has confirmed the Australian leg of her massive The 1989 World Tour will visit Brisbane, Sydney, Adelaide and Melbourne in November/December 2015 with special guest Vance Joy.

Notably, Swift will be the first female solo artist to play stadiums on back-to-back Australian tours, following the hugely successful The Red Tour of summer 2014, which garnered high praise from fans and critics alike:

‘This incredible visual aspect to her show only serves to add to Taylor's innate storytelling abilities. At times you almost feel as if you have been transported to a crazy new world where the acrobatic storytellers of Cirque du Soleil would feel at home… You have to hand it to Taylor. Girl knows how to put on a show!’ – Take 40

‘As the fireworks lit up the warm night air and Swift took her applause, the fans were left starstruck. Sorry, kids - you are never, ever, ever going to top that for a pop concert.’ – The West Australian

With over 30 million albums sold and seven Grammy Awards to her name, Swift is one of the world’s most celebrated artists and the 1989 era is her biggest yet.

‘It’s the album every subsequent blockbuster must now reckon with.’ – Pretty Much Amazing

‘There is no indecision on 1989, it is pure, glittering pop from beginning to end’ – FasterLouder

Countless records have been made and broken by the 24-year-old international superstar since the release of her fifth, and most celebrated, studio album 1989.

Swift is the only artist in history to have three albums debut with more than a million copies sold in their first week, with 1989 joining fellow multi-platinum selling albums Speak Now (2010) and Red (2012). The album became Australia’s fastest-selling album of 2014 in less than four days and has topped the US album charts for the third week in a row.

Lead single ‘Shake It Off’ and its successor ‘Blank Space’ have also earned Swift the dual achievements of being the only artist to have two #1 singles in the HOT 100 US charts in 2014.

At the 2014 American Music Awards last month, Swift became the first ever recipient of the Dick Clark Award for Excellence, given to an artist who achieves a ground breaking feat or creates a landmark work. This prestigious recognition honoured Taylor as the only artist to ever sell over 1 million albums in release week for three albums: Speak Now, Red and 1989.

The 1989 World Tour begins in Japan next May and includes 63 shows across eight countries and four continents. Click here to watch the tour trailer.

In further exciting news Australia’s Vance Joy will extend his commitments on The 1989 World Tour to include his homeland.  Already confirmed to tour with Taylor on the North American leg of The 1989 World Tour, this latest announcement caps off a massive 18 months for Melbourne born Vance Joy.  Kicking off the year with the #1 song in Triple J’s Hottest 100 with Riptide, debuting at #1 on the ARIA Album Chart with 'Dream Your Life Away', selling 5 x Platinum for single ‘Riptide' and Gold for 'Mess Is Mine', new single ‘First Time’ continues to showcase Joy’s versatility as an artist.

Don’t miss the chance to see the biggest superstar in the world at the top of her game on the The 1989 World Tour! Tickets to the Australian 1989 tour go on sale from Friday 12 December – please visit frontiertouring.com/taylorswift for your show’s local start time.