Taylor Swift Eras Tour: Show ends 1,989 days since losing control of music

Taylor Swift has wrapped her epic Eras Tour with a final show in Canada, 1989 days after she lost control of her music.

The”Anti-Hero” singer has been on the road since March 2023, performing a total of 152 concerts around the world and smashing several records along the way. Saying goodbye to Eras as she stood on stage at BC Place in Vancouver, Swift told the crowd: “XXX”

The 34-year-old started her tour more than five years after losing control of her music in a well-documented battle with talent manager Scooter Braun.

He acquired the rights to much of Swift’s music in 2019 when he bought Big Machine Records, reportedly paying around $300 million. Swift recorded her first six albums—Taylor Swift (2006), Fearless (2008), Speak Now (2010), Red (2012), 1989 (2014) and Reputation (2017)—with the label, and it owned the masters.

The singer, who signed with Republic Records in 2018, posted a message on Tumblr about the sale saying that she had long been asking to own her own music and that Braun “stripped me of my life’s work.” She has since been open about wanting to claim back and regain control of her past material.

In 2020, Swift announced that she would be re-recording her music to take control again, writing on X: “I have recently begun re-recording my older music and it has already proven to be both exciting and creatively fulfilling. I have plenty of surprises in store.”

Fearless (Taylor’s Version) and Red (Taylor’s Version) were released in 2021, and Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) was unveiled in July 2023.

Then in August 2023, Swift wrapped up the first leg of Eras by announcing that 1989 (Taylor’s Version) was on the way.

“Since I was a teenager I wanted to own my music and the way to do it was to re-record my albums and call them Taylor’s Version,” she told the cheering crowd at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles.

“The way that you have embraced that, the way that you have celebrated that. You really decided that it was your fight too and that you were 100% behind me and if I cared about it you cared about it… thank you for that. It was so generous of you to care about something that I care about.”

Swift started her tour in Glendale, Arizona in March 2023 and she traveled all over the U.S. before heading on to South America, Asia, Australia and Europe.

Onstage in Liverpool in June 2024, she told fans that the tour had “become my entire life.”

“It has taken over everything,” she said. “I think I once had hobbies, but I don’t know what they were anymore, because all I do when I’m not onstage is sit at home, and try to think of clever acoustic song mash-ups, and think about what you might want to hear. When I’m not on the stage, I’m dreaming about being back on the stage with you guys.”

Swift added that the Eras Tour was “the most exhausting, all-encompassing but most joyful, most rewarding, most wonderful thing” that had happened to her.