Taylor Swift announces two extra shows in Sydney and Melbourne

Taylor Swift has declared two additional Australian concert events after tens of millions of eager fans skipped out on tickets.

The US pop star has declared a third Melbourne show at the MCG on February 18 following year and a fourth Sydney concert at Accor Stadium on February 26 as section of The Eras Tour.

Tickets for the new live shows will go on sale when common sale tickets are released on Friday at 10am in Sydney and 2pm in Melbourne.

Swift will be the next ever artist following Madonna to complete 3 live shows at the MCG.

She will also be the very first artist to carry out four concert events at Accor Stadium at Sydney Olympic Park. 

Frontier Touring says the two new exhibits will be the final dates extra to the Australian leg of the Eras Tour, which means lovers in Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide will have to journey to both Sydney or Melbourne.

It arrives soon after Ticketek noticed document-breaking figures on Wednesday when 4 million Taylor Swift fans ‘queued’ for a shot at tickets to her 2024 Aussie tour.

Just hrs immediately after admirers had been left disgruntled when pre-sale offered out, a Ticketek insider disclosed they experienced all wasted their time.

Disappointed Swifties waited for hrs with their browsers open believing they were holding a position in the queue, but it turns out there was hardly ever a line to begin with.  

‘Everyone in the Ticketek lounge has an equivalent chance to get into the web site irrespective of when they have arrived,’ a spokesperson stated, including that it built the method ‘fair’.

Which indicates supporters who logged into pre-sale 15 minutes beforehand had as superior a possibility receiving a ticket as those people who waited 9 hours hunched around their laptops. 

Ticketek’s formal suggestions was to log on 15 minutes in advance of the pre-sale started out at 10am in Sydney and 2pm in Melbourne.

However, lots of may well truly feel misled as the internet site also advised people who logged in early not to refresh the web site lest they drop their position in the ‘queue’. 

Daily Mail Australia has attained out to Ticketek for more remark.  

Taylor, 33, booked just 5 shows throughout Sydney and Melbourne for her Eras Tour following yr and some speculate it is all in the identify of excellent business enterprise.

Pre-sale tickets sold out inside of minutes on Wednesday as thousands and thousands of supporters rushed to nab their seat at the hugely anticipated live performance slated for February.

And Nine’s Leisure Editor Richard Wilkins, 69, stated it’d be bad for business if the pop star additional far more dates to her tour. 

‘It’s good for her organization to normally have people wanting more, you wouldn’t want to have 10 shows and have half of them vacant,’ he said on Wednesday. 

‘That’s the modus operandi. It is really a seller’s ticket and she’s in the box seat. She has hundreds of thousands of enthusiasts about the globe to maintain happy.’

Ticketek informed Sydney lovers at all around 1.45pm by using Twitter that ‘all standard Frontier pre-sale tickets for Taylor Swift in Sydney are now marketed out’.

They did condition that some VIP Offers were however obtainable.

However, followers should not fret as there will nonetheless be 1000’s of tickets accessible when a lot more go on sale for the standard general public on Friday at 10am.

‘Make absolutely sure you’re organized with your Ticketek account information and payment information, as there are lots of Swifties that are fired up to Shake It Off this summertime,’ Ticketek additional.

It was a related tale more than in Victoria when hundreds of Melbourne supporters tried to safe their tickets at 2pm.

The Negative Blood hitmaker’s two displays at the MCG offered out in about 40 minutes.

‘Melbourne Taylor Swift exhibit pre-sale tickets are marketed out! Got into Ticketek only to see tickets were not accessible any more for either dates!’ just one lover tweeted.

A different cried they also weren’t acquiring any luck making an attempt to safe their tickets.

‘I’ve just been kicked out of the lounge for the 2nd time, to start with in the Sydney presale just after 4 hours (which I anticipated) but 37 minutes into the Melb one particular I’ve been booted from the page?’ they wrote.

Taylor will be undertaking five live shows in Australia in February, two in Melbourne and three in Sydney.

The Melbourne exhibits will be carried out at the Melbourne Cricket Floor on February 16 and 17.

Swift will then fly to Sydney to carry out about a few consecutive evenings at Accor Stadium, on February 23, 24 and 25.