The 1989 World Tour Live

The 1989 World Tour Live
Live album / Video album by Taylor Swift
Released December 20, 2015
Recorded November 28, 2015
Venue ANZ Stadium
Genre Pop
Length 2:11:54
Label Big Machine Records
Taylor Swift chronology
1989
(2014)		 The 1989 World Tour Live
(2015)

The 1989 World Tour Live is a live video album/concert film by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. It was released on December 20, 2015, exclusively via Apple Music.[1] Directed by Jonas Åkerlund,[2] the film monitors the Sydney stop of Swift's fourth headlining concert tour, The 1989 World Tour. The show, which was attended by 75,980 fans, remains Swift's most attended concert to date.[3][4]

Background

In 2014, Taylor Swift released her fifth studio album, 1989. It was a massive commercial success, debuting atop the Billboard 200, retaining the position for eleven non-consecutive weeks, becoming the fifth album in history to spend its first year in the Top 10 of the chart and topping the 2015 Year-End Chart.[5][6][7] It was certified quintuple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), and has sold over 5,750,000 copies in the United States, while selling over 9.5 million copies worldwide.[8][9]

1989 won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year, making Swift the only female act to win the award twice, following her win in 2010 for her sophomore effort, Fearless. Additionally, it produced five consecutive Billboard Hot 100 Top 10 hits, "Shake It Off" (No.1 for four non-consecutive weeks), "Blank Space" (No.1 for seven consecutive weeks), "Style" (No.6), "Bad Blood" (No.1 for one week) and "Wildest Dreams" (No.5).[5]

In 2015, Swift embarked on her fourth headlining concert tour, The 1989 World Tour. The tour was commercially successful, grossing over $250 million.[10] The Sydney stop of the tour was attended by 76,000 fans, Swift's most attended concert to date.[11] On December 13, 2015, Swift announced she would release a live album monitoring the aforementioned show exclusively via Apple Music. The album was released on December 20, 2015. Soon to be released as DVD.

Set list

  1. "Welcome to New York"
  2. "New Romantics"
  3. "Blank Space"
  4. "I Knew You Were Trouble"
  5. "I Wish You Would"
  6. "How You Get the Girl"
  7. "I Know Places"
  8. "All You Had to Do Was Stay"
  9. "You Are In Love"
  10. "Clean"
  11. "Love Story"
  12. "Style"
  13. "This Love"
  14. "Bad Blood"
  15. "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together"
  16. "Enchanted" / "Wildest Dreams"
  17. "Out of the Woods"
  18. "Shake It Off"

Use in New Romantics

Excerpts from the film were used in Swift's video for the seventh and final single of 1989, New Romantics.

References

  1. ↑ "The 1989 World Tour Live Coming to Apple Music". taylorswift.com. Retrieved August 2, 2016.
  2. ↑ "Taylor Swift's 1989 Tour Film Is Here: Watch 'Wildest Dreams' and a Behind-the-Scenes Video". Billboard. December 20, 2015. Retrieved September 12, 2016.
  3. ↑ "Taylor Swift Announces Release of 1989 Concert Film". People Magazine. December 13, 2015. Retrieved August 2, 2016.
  4. ↑ "Billboard Boxscore :: Current Scores". Billboard. November 10, 2015. Archived from the original on November 10, 2015. Retrieved November 10, 2015.
  5. 1 2 "Taylor Swift - Chart History". Billboard Magazine. Retrieved August 2, 2016.
  6. ↑ "Year-End 2015 Top Billboard 200 Albums". Billboard Magazine. Retrieved August 2, 2016.
  7. ↑ Caulfield, Keith (October 27, 2015). "Taylor Swift's 1989 Only Fifth Album to Spend First Year in Billboard 200's Top 10". Billboard Magazine. Retrieved August 2, 2016.
  8. ↑ Partridge, Kenneth (November 2, 2015). "Taylor Swift 1989 Grammy Album of the Year Spotlight". Billboard Magazine. Retrieved August 2, 2016.
  9. ↑ "Global Music Report 2016" (PDF). International Federation of Phonographic Industry. April 2, 2016. Retrieved August 2, 2016.
  10. ↑ Adamczyk, Alicia (January 8, 2016). "Taylor Swift's 1989 World Tour Raked in More Than $250 Million Last Year". Time Magazine. Retrieved August 2, 2016.
  11. ↑ McCabe, Kathy (November 28, 2015). "Taylor Swift Shakes It Off in Front of 76,000strong Crowd at Sydney Concert". The Sunday Telegraph. Retrieved August 2, 2016.
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