Taylor Swift announced Monday morning that her film “Eras Tour” will be released for streaming on her birthday, December 13th – and that, as fans hoped, it will include songs from the tour that were not included in the film’s theatrical release Films are included.
“Well, basically it’s a birthday coming up and I thought a fun way to celebrate the year we’ve had together would be to make the concert film “The Eras Tour” available for you to watch at home can!” she wrote on her social media accounts. “I am very pleased to announce that the expanded version of the film is available for rent on demand in the US, Canada and additional countries to be announced soon, with Wildest Dreams, The Archer and Long Live can be started on… you guessed it, December 13th.”
The announcement came the morning after Swift announced the final date of her 2023 tour in Brazil on Sunday evening. Fans were hoping for an announcement at the concert – they even chanted the track “Reputation” at the shows in Brazil, hoping to learn that “Reputation (Taylor’s Version)” would be released soon – but there was no new album news at the show. Any disappointment along these lines could be tempered for Swifties by the news that they can binge-watch the Eras Tour at home over the holidays.
While she hasn’t yet revealed which international territories will or won’t receive the streaming release, the caveat may take into account that the tour has only visited America so far and that more than half of it is still scheduled to hit other countries around the world in 2024.
The omission of several songs from the tour’s setlist caused consternation among some Completist fans at the film’s premiere in October, although many correctly guessed that the 2-hour, 45-minute-long film would receive an expansion once the film was made available to watch at home would be available. Even though “Wildest Dreams,” “The Archer” and “Long Live” have been added, it still won’t include every song Swift played on most or many tour dates. The nighttime “Cardigan” is the only set standby that doesn’t seem to have been taken into account; “No Body No Crime,” which was not part of the entire tour but was performed by Swift with Haim at the August shows filmed at SoFi Stadium in LA, also remains MIA.
Swift is on a roll in both film and music, in addition to a tour that some estimate will bring in a record-breaking $2 billion by the time it ends (as currently planned) next November.
The film grossed $178 million in the United States by the end of last weekend, setting several times the record for a concert film.
Meanwhile, “1989 (Taylor’s Version),” the latest in her series of album re-recordings, posted the best first-week numbers of her career, with an opening number of 1.6 million album-equivalent units, the best of all eight albums this year Years. She also enjoyed the feat of scoring two consecutive No. 1 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 with “Cruel Summer,” a four-year-old song that was given new life and replaced at the top spot by “Is It” on Over Now ?”, a re-recorded Vault track added as a bonus to the “1989” remake.
The Eras Tour continues on February 7th with a four-night performance at the Tokyo Dome in Japan.