Taylor Swift: The Money-Making Maestro and the Untold Stories of Past Love Affairs

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The singer is currently on The Eras Tour with 52 shows around the world. The first night in Glendale, Arizona on March 17 had 69,000 attendees. This number helps Taylor Swift become the female artist with the highest number of audiences attending the opening concert in America. Through shows in Las Vegas and Arlington, Taylor took fans from one surprise to another. The singer sang 44 songs live in three hours, each performance was meticulously choreographed.

 
 

Taylor Swift sang “Enchanted” during “The Eras Tour” on March 24 in Las Vegas, USA. Video: YouTube Taylor Swift Nation Vietnam

Billboard   described the demand for tickets to  the Eras Tour  as “unprecedented” and “terrible”, causing the ticket sales page to crash on the first day it opened The cheapest ticket price is 289 USD and the most expensive is 485 USD (excluding tax). According to  Forbes,  David Herlihy – Professor of music industry studies at Northeastern University – estimates she can earn about 620 million USD from the tour, becoming the next billionaire singer after Rihanna. Billboard believes   that the tour will help her earn about 591 million USD, while the profit she must share with the ticket sales website is 12.9 million USD. She currently has a net worth of 570 million USD, surpassing Britney Spears (70 million USD), Ariana Grande (240 million USD), Adele (220 million USD).

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Taylor Swift during an opening performance of “The Eras Tour” on March 17. Photo: AFP

 

 

Women’s Health site   rates Taylor Swift as the top “money-making machine” in the music industry.  She had a good starting point when she was born into a wealthy family, with her father being a famous stock broker at Merrill Lynch – the third largest investment bank in the US, and later becoming the bank’s president. Taylor’s mother is Andrea Finlay, who was a financial director for an investment fund. From a young age, her parents created conditions for her to interact with art and pursue music.

 

Eight of Taylor’s 10 albums reached number one on the Billboard 200 chart, selling about 51 million copies. In 2019, she was the highest-earning artist in the world, with 185 million USD. In 2020, while performance activities froze due to the epidemic, Taylor still earned 23.8 million USD thanks to the release of two albums  Folklore  and  Evermore.  Previously, in 2018,  Taylor’s Reputation tour  helped her earn 191.1 million USD in the US alone and 345 million USD worldwide.

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The MV “Anti-Hero”, a song from Taylor Swift’s album “Midnights”, was released late last year. Video: YouTube Taylor Swift

 

 

Outside of music, Taylor makes money by guest-starring or voicing several characters in films such as  Cats, Amsterdam, The Giver, The Lorax  and  Valentine’s Day. Short films and documentaries made by Taylor also help her earn millions of dollars. She collaborated with Netflix to make a documentary about the  Reputation tour. In 2020, she released two other films of the same genre,  Miss Americana  and  Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions. In 2021, the short film  All Too Well: The Short Film,  adapted from Taylor’s single of the same name, won many awards including a Grammy for Best Music Video.

 

Taylor Swift  is also the representative face of many famous brands such as Apple, Keds, Coca-Cola, Capital One. In addition, she is a famous real estate dealer. She loves old villas and owns many beautiful houses in cities such as New York, Nashville, Massachusetts, California. In 2012, while dating Conor Kennedy, Taylor bought a seven-bedroom house on Cape Cod for $4.8 million. After the couple broke up in 2013, she sold the property for $5.675 million. In 2018, Taylor also sold two houses in Beverly Hills for $2.65 million and $4 million.

Taylor Swift was born in 1989 and started singing professionally at the age of 15. She is considered one of the most successful artists over the past decade, selling 50 million albums and 150 million singles globally. During her career, Taylor won 10 Grammy awards and 29 AMA awards (breaking Michael Jackson’s record). In 2019, the AMA organizers honored her as  Artist of the 2010s . The singer was awarded the  Global Icon award  at the 2021 Brit Awards.

 

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The information that Taylor Swift and Joe Alwyn broke up was confirmed by CNN on April 8. The source said that the couple decided to break up peacefully after the irreversible rift that occurred last weekend. Breaking up with the strongest love ever (6 years), the Love Story singer made fans surprised and sad. Photo: CNN.

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“He gives me the most ordinary and honest emotions,” Swift once expressed in an interview with Rolling Stone. They got married in 2016, and the female singer has never been afraid to reveal her boyfriend to the press. Swift’s inspiration for composing the album Lover (2019) was also taken from her romance with a younger actor. Photo: Billboard.

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Before Alwyn, Swift was in a relationship with Tom Hiddleston. The two dated briefly after meeting for the first time at the Met Gala event in May 2016. At that time, Swift – with her history of quickly falling in love with many men – was criticized for not being worthy of a Marvel actor. And after only three months, the pair also went their separate ways. Photo: Vanity Fair.

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There was a time when Calvin Harris became a media focus when holding hands with Swift in public. The Scottish DJ confirmed that he has had a crush on the famous singer since March 2015. But not long after, Swift broke up with Harris saying he did not respect her. As for the male DJ, he felt regretful for saying harsh words to his ex-girlfriend. Photo: Vanity Fair.

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In late 2012 and early 2013, Harry Styles was the guy who caught the “eye” of singer You Belong With Me. But very suddenly, after just two months, this love story broke down after a heated argument on vacation in the British Virgin Island. Similar to previous “failed” relationships, Swift quickly tormented Styles in a series of songs written by herself such as I Knew You Were Trouble, Style, Out Of The Woods. Photo: Elle.

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Swift and Conor Kennedy – Robert F. Kennedy’s nephew – fell in love for a few short months in 2012. At that time, her boyfriend was only 18 years old. Connor’s youth is the reason why the female singer is tired and wants to give up. “Conor is just an 18-year-old kid and not ready for anything profound, while Taylor wants to find her partner. That scares Conor,” a source said. Photo: Page Six.

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Jake Gyllenhaal is probably Swift’s most talked about ex. After the breakup, he was fiercely criticized by her on the album Red. The songs We Are Never Getting Back Together, State of Grace or The Moment I Knew… are considered a mental attack on the actor. Even in 2021, the female singer released the short film All Too Well about their love. According to TMZ, the reason Swift is angry with Gyllenhaal is because the Brokeback Mountain star broke up with her via text message because of the “age difference”. Photo: Cheatsheet.

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At the end of December 2009, Swift dated John Mayer. She only stayed with the “bad boys” of the international music industry for exactly three months. After the breakup, the Bad Blood singer said that Mayer was a heartless person who dated but did not pay any attention to this relationship. The male singer is also said to be one of the reasons why Swift and Katy Perry – his other ex – fell out with each other. Photo: ET.

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Before getting married to handsome guy Lucas Till, Swift dated Taylor Lautner. This relationship only lasted a few months. After the breakup, she gave “Werewolf” the song Back to December to apologize to her boyfriend, whose relationship broke up just because she was indifferent. Photo: People.

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Lucas Till is praised as the most handsome among Swift’s lovers. The two fell in love when they starred together in the hit MV You Belong With Me – the song that helped the female singer gain global fame. However, after a year of courtship, Till made fans dissatisfied by saying “only sees Swift as a friend”. Photo: Us Weekly.

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Joe Jonas – one of Swift’s first boyfriends – caused controversy because he publicly mocked his ex-lover as a girl “abandoned by many men”. In fact, after his love affair with the female singer in 2008, the Jonas Brothers member faced negative views from the public. According to People, Jonas was the one who proactively broke up with Swift through a “27-second call”. Photo: Glamour.

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