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The Red Tour
Tour by Taylor Swift
A photo of Swift in a white shirt, black shorts and hat looking backwards
Promotional poster for the tour
Location
  • United States
  • Canada
  • New Zealand
  • Australia
  • England
  • Germany
  • China
  • Japan
  • Indonesia
  • Malaysia
  • Philippines
  • Singapore
Associated albumRed
Start dateMarch 13, 2013 (2013-03-13)
End dateJune 12, 2014 (2014-06-12)
No. of shows86
Supporting acts
Attendance1.7 million
Box office$150.2 million ($199.5 million in 2024 dollars)[1]
Taylor Swift concert chronology

The Red Tour was the third concert tour by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, in support of her fourth studio album, Red (2012). It began in Omaha, Nebraska, on March 13, 2013, and concluded in Singapore, on June 12, 2014. The tour covered 86 shows that spanned 12 countries across Asia–Pacific, Europe, and North America.

The set list consisted of songs mostly from Red, with a few numbers taken from Swift's previous albums, Fearless (2008) and Speak Now (2010). Swift played various instruments such as electric guitar, acoustic guitar, banjo, and piano to perform several numbers, while other songs were accompanied by costume changes, bands, and choreographies. During several shows, Swift invited surprise guests onstage to sing with her, and she performed surprise songs outside the regular set list on acoustic guitar. The Red Tour was generally well received in the press, with critics praising her stage presence and songwriting while also opining that it demonstrated Swift's pop-star prowess that was outgrowing her country music origins.

Swift had integrated partnerships with Diet Coke, Keds, and Elizabeth Arden to promote the Red Tour. The Southeast Asian leg was additionally promoted via tie-ins with Cornetto and AirAsia. The Red tour was attended by 1.7 million people and grossed $150.2 million in revenue, becoming the highest-grossing North American tour of 2013 and the highest-grossing country tour of all time, surpassing Tim McGraw and Faith Hill's Soul2Soul II Tour. In Australia, it made Swift the first female artist to headline a stadium tour since Madonna in 1993 and the first female artist to sell out Sydney's Allianz Stadium in its history. The tour won Top Package at the Billboard Touring Awards in 2013.

Background

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Taylor Swift's fourth studio album, Red, was released on October 22, 2012, through Big Machine Records.[2] While Swift and Big Machine promoted the album to country radio,[3] it incorporates elements from different genres of rock, pop, and electronic.[4][5][6] Red debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart with first-week sales of 1.208 million copies, surpassing Garth Brooks's Double Live (1998) as the fastest-selling country album.[7]

On October 25, 2012, on the primetime TV special of 20/20 with the journalist Katie Couric, Swift announced the Red Tour that would kick off in early 2013 across North American stadiums and arenas. The first North American leg consisted of 58 shows in 45 cities in 29 US states and 3 Canadian provinces, starting on March 13, 2013, in Omaha, Nebraska. The opening act was announced to be Ed Sheeran, who would tour with Swift on all North American shows.[8][9] In January and February 2013, Swift announced additional dates in East Rutherford, New Jersey and Edmonton.[10][11] Austin Mahone, Joel Crouse, Brett Eldredge, Florida Georgia Line, and Casey James were announced as opening acts on different North American dates.[12][13]

In May 2013, Swift announced Australian and New Zealand dates of the Red Tour, visiting four stadiums in Melbourne, Sydney, Perth, and Brisbane, and one arena in Auckland.[14] Neon Trees and Guy Sebastian were confirmed as these dates' supporting acts.[15][16] She further announced dates for England and Germany upon finishing the North American leg in September 2013,[17][18] with the Vamps confirmed as the London opening act the following month.[19] In February 2014, Swift announced the Asian leg of the tour, with shows in Jakarta, Manila, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, and Singapore slated for June.[20] She later announced additional dates for Tokyo[21] and Shanghai.[22] On May 24, 2014, the tour promoter BEC-Tero announced that the sold-out Bangkok show had to be cancelled, citing the 2014 Thai coup d'état and surrounding political instability.[23]

Planning and development

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"When I was conceptualizing [the Red Tour] from the very beginning, I thought about how if [Speak Now and Red tours] were to exist in two different worlds, I picture the Speak Now tour existing in a Midsummer Night's Dream/Romeo and Juliet-inspired fantasyland, and I picture this taking place in New York City. And so you've got high intensity excitement and you've got the darkness of all of it and you've got all the fleeting moments of reality, and it's a little bit less of a fairy tale."

 — Swift on the concept of the Red Tour[24]

Planning for the Red Tour began in the summer of 2012, around eight months prior to its kickoff,[25] starting with stage design, set list creation, costume design, dancer selection, and rehearsals that lasted one month.[26] Swift said that she wanted the Red Tour to convey a different experience than her last tour, the Speak Now World Tour: whereas her previous tour embodied a "fantasy oriented, a very princessy vibe", the Red Tour would include not as many gowns or theatrical elements.[27] She thought of the Red Tour as "mature and a bit more sophisticated".[28]

Red shades dominated the props and settings of the concerts, including musical instruments, microphones, costumes, stages, and audience lighting.[29][30] Swift collaborated with the producer Baz Halpin to design and direct the stage of the Red Tour, having worked with him on the Speak Now World Tour.[31][32] According to Halpin, he designed the stage to accompany Swift's desire to stay connected with her audience as much as possible, and she was involved in selecting all options in the early design stage. Each number was accompanied with a distinctive aesthetic: a carousel on which the band performed for "Stay Stay Stay" and "Mean", a haunted house for "I Knew You Were Trouble", a circus for "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together", a New York cityscape for "Holy Ground", a 1920s Hollywood backdrop for "The Lucky One", and a Paris backdrop for "Begin Again".[33][31]

Swift's seven-member band included a pianist, two guitarists, a violinist, a bass guitarist, a multi-string instrumentalist, and a drummer.[34] Supporting Swift on stage were four backing vocalists who had performed "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" with her at the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards and 15 dancers selected by Swift and her mother from over 400 people through auditions in early 2013.[25][35] After six months of the concert run, three dancers left to join another tour, leaving the number of dancers to 12.[36] Talking to Rolling Stone in August 2013, Swift said that she strived to perform better to serve her fans and that having stadium concerts made her more mature as a performer.[24]

Stage design

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Main stage of Taylor Swift's Red concert
The main stage featured three staircases, projecting screens, and three aisles surrounding two spaces for standing tickets.
B stage of Taylor Swift's Red concert
The B stage was elevated using a hydraulic system; Swift is seen performing with Ed Sheeran.

The concerts included two stages;[29] the main stage included three staircases and an extended stage towards the audience.[33][37] It was semicircular, divided into three aisles surrounding two empty spaces for standing tickets in the middle.[29][33][38] The aisle in the middle of the stage contained a runway that could be raised a few feet and rotated by a hydraulic system.[24][38][39] The stage was equipped with a fireworks system, a LED lighting system, nine large screens (including a curved videowall made up of five small screens blocking the stage), and two elevators to take Swift up and down backstage.[33][35][24][37][40] For stadiums, Swift rented a canopy system built on four steel pillars from Stageco for the main stage.[41]

The drum set used in "Holy Ground" glowed up when Swift and the dancers beat on them using fluorescent cylinders; this set consisted of two parts: one onstage with Swift and the other hanging from the ceiling.[42][43] The smaller B stage was located on the other side of the performance venue, with a circular rotating platform in the middle also using a hydraulic system, which could be raised about 15 feet, where Swift performed songs on acoustic guitar.[33][39][44] The arena shows also included a flying cage that carried Swift over the audience to move her from the B stage back to the main stage.[45][46] Inside the backstage was "Club Red", a room decorated with images and costumes she had worn on stage, where Swift met and interacted with some selected fans and the media before or after the show.[24][47]

The Red Tour traveled across North America with 24 tractors carrying stage installation equipment and lighting, along with 15 buses carrying 80 staff members.[37] If the concert took place at outdoor stadiums, the fleet also included a truck carrying a steel frame structure to build the canopy for the stage.[41] At each venue, the tour management team hired 120–150 local workers to help with the setup.[48] The dismantling process began immediately after the performance ended and usually took about four hours to complete.[37] Many props, musical instruments, and costumes used in the tour were later displayed in some music museums,[49] and in a series of exhibitions titled "The Taylor Swift Experience" at the Grammy Museum at L.A. Live.[50][51]

Sound and lighting

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A red guitar and microphone attached to a wall
Swift's Les Paul guitar from the tour, on display at the Musical Instrument Museum of Phoenix

There were 73 musical instruments used in the tour, 13 of which were Swift's.[48] Eighth Day Sound Systems provided the sound system and equipment for the Red Tour, which used three DiGiCo SD7 digital mixing consoles and a d&b audiotechnik speaker system from JPJ Audio.[52][53] David Payne, a sound engineer who had worked with Swift for over four and a half years, chose the SD7 mixing console because of its layout, quality, and ability to handle sound effects and integrate with the SoundGrid wave bundling system.[52] Every member onstage had a separate in-ear monitor, except for the dancers who shared one ear mix. The tour carried an additional spare room with 8 d&b audiotechnik M4 monitoring speakers for the opening act and special guests duetting with Swift. The sound team worked with about 96 input channels from the stage (mostly from wireless microphones and instruments) plus 12 audience microphones arranged around the performance venue for the Pro Tools recording tool. Swift used four separate microphones at different times.[52]

Eighth Day Sound Systems collaborated with JPI Audio to provide the sound system for the concerts in Australia. There were 11 sound engineers working per night, including two engineers on each side of the stage, two monitoring engineers, two engineers in charge of audio delay, one front of house (FOH) engineer, one system/FOH engineer, and one RF engineer cum technical team leader. Three trucks were used to transport the sound system.[53] Halpin used SGM's multi-color XC-5s LED lights for the Red Tour. There were 42 XC-5 lights used in the lighting system, provided by Production Resource Group.[32]

Wardrobe

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Swift in a laced Oxford shirt and black hat
Swift in a laced Oxford shirt, black high-waisted leather shorts, a black hat, and red lipstick during "Holy Ground"
Swift in a Victorian white gown
Swift in a Victorian-inspired gown singing "I Knew You Were Trouble"

Marina Toybina was the main costume designer for the Red Tour. There were 128 costumes used, including 23 for Swift and 103 for the dancers.[54] Swift's wardrobe was provided by different fashion brands: black high-waisted leather shorts from Bleulab, a cummerbund from Kate Spade, oxford shoes from Miu Miu and Lanvin, dresses from J. Mendel, boots from LaDuca, and a white corset from Moschino.[55] According to Toybina, she designed the costumes after Swift created the set list and discussed the choreography, believing that they reflected the inspirations of each song as well as her individuality. After Swift approved the designs, Toybina and her team proceeded with fabric selection, sewing, and creating additional accessories. It took Toybina a little more than three weeks to complete the wardrobe.[54]

Costumes used in the Red Tour were strongly tied with the album's theme: the white shirt and brimmed hat of the album cover, striped shirts, oxford shoes, pork pie hats, and high-waisted shorts.[56] According to Vogue Germany, Swift's outfits on the Red Tour showcased a more urban and sporty aesthetic than her previous country image: T-shirts and shorts paired with flat shoes, although some dresses were paired with high heels as well.[57] In an interview with Keds, one of the tour's sponsor, Swift said her favorite costume was the first outfit of the show: a white laced Oxford shirt, black high-waisted leather shorts, a black hat, and oxford shoes. She added that she was not only concerned with the appearance of the costumes, but also their "functionality": "Can I run around in this? Is this something that I can throw my hair around in?" Regarding makeup, Swift said that red lipstick was a must and that she preferred using long-lasting lipstick over regular oil-based lipstick, and that she wanted a "perfectly angled cat eye look".[58]

Sponsors

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An AirAsia Airbus A320 aircraft with Taylor Swift livery, February 2015

AEG Live was the tour's promoter in North America and Asia,[59][60] while Frontier Touring promoted it in Australia and New Zealand,[61] and Semmel Concerts and Peter Rieger Konzertagentur in Germany.[62] Swift had integrated sponsorships with three brands for the North American leg: Diet Coke, Keds, and Elizabeth Arden.[63] The Diet Coke deal provided fans "extraordinary access to Swift",[64] while the Keds deal included a limited-edition Champion series featuring the names of each city that the tour visited,[65] and the Elizabeth Arden deal launched Swift-branded fragrances.[66] In Australia and New Zealand, Qantas was the tour's official airline.[67]

Sponsors for the Southeast Asian shows included the ice cream brand Cornetto and the airline AirAsia.[68] Cornetto also partnered with Sony Music to create the "Ride to Fame Competition" where participants had a chance to become an opening act for Swift.[68] AirAsia served as the official tour airline with a specialized Airbus A320 aircraft that carried Swift and her crew across the Southeast Asian stops. The airline also designed a Taylor Swift livery for the aircraft that featured her name and photos for one year.[69] AIA and HotLink were additional sponsors in Malaysia,[70][71] and Fox and Star World in the Philippines.[72] Toyota was the official automotive sponsor for the tour in Southeast Asia, collaborating with Swift to campaign for the company's first ASEAN road safety initiative that included educational videos for young people in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam.[73]

Concert synopsis

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Swift used Icona Pop's 2012 single "I Love It" and Lenny Kravitz's 1999 rendition of "American Woman" as her entrance songs.[42][74] The set list consisted of songs mostly from Red[29][33] and a few from Swift's past albums, Fearless (2008) and Speak Now (2010).[45] Additionally, Swift performed many "surprise songs" in acoustic versions on different nights by learning fan requests through social media.[29][75] Several numbers, like "Everything Has Changed" and "Stay Stay Stay", were excluded from the shows in Oceania and Asia.[55][74]

Swift playing a red electric guitar
Swift playing "Red" on a red Les Paul electric guitar
Swift singing while wearing full-red
Swift wearing red gown and gloves for "The Lucky One"

The performance began as five screens blocking the stage slowly rose and Swift's silhouette appeared on a large red screen as she prepared to perform "State of Grace".[76] The large screen was quickly pulled up to reveal the entire stage, and Swift performed the song in a white shirt, black shorts, a black hat, and red sequined shoes.[77] The number ended with fireworks falling from the ceiling.[77][78] She followed with "Holy Ground", where she and the dancers performed with a set of illuminated drums.[29] She put on a red sparkling Les Paul electric guitar to perform "Red" while the dancers carried red flags running around the stage.[29][43][74] Towards the end of "Red", Swift played a guitar solo with a band member who also played a red glittery guitar.[29]

The five screens were lowered, and Swift along with four backing vocalists dressed like a 1960s girl group to perform "You Belong with Me", which was transformed from a country pop track to a Motown-styled number interspersed with heavy bass.[79][80][a] The performance of "The Lucky One" was introduced by a black-and-white film featuring Swift sitting in a 1920s Hollywood-styled chamber and her monologue about the dangers of fame.[80][83] She appeared onstage to perform the song in a full-red outfit that consisted of a long-tailed dress, shorts, arms-long gloves, and boots, surrounded by dancers dressed as paparazzi in trench coats.[43][55][57] Returning to the stage after changing the long dress into a white short skirt,[81][84] Swift played "Mean" on a banjo, sitting on a treasure chest, accompanied by a set piece where her band members portrayed different characters on a carousel.[29][47] She followed with "Stay Stay Stay", which contained portions of "Ho Hey" by the Lumineers towards its end.[79]

Swift singing while sitting on a barstool and strumming a guitar
Swift pointing to the audience while standing in a flying cage
Swift performed acoustic numbers on the B stage (left) before moving back to the main stage in a flying cage while performing "Sparks Fly" (right).

The concert continued with a short film that documented Swift's evolution from childhood to age 21.[85] It introduced the next number, "22", which featured Swift in a white striped T-shirt, red pants, and a ponytail, and an energetic choreography.[39][86][87] Towards the end of "22", she was carried to the B stage on the shoulders of her backup dancers.[88] On the B stage, which was a rotating platform, Swift performed songs on an acoustic guitar, sitting on a red barstool: "Everything Has Changed" with Ed Sheeran and "Begin Again".[39][89][90] She concluded this segment with "Sparks Fly", which she performed on a 12-string guitar briefly before entering a flying cage that carried her way back to the main stage.[29][45][89][b]

The next number, "I Knew You Were Trouble", began with the fiddler playing solo as fog swirled around her.[91][92] Swift began the song, wearing a Victorian-inspired white gown interspersed with gold accents.[76][77] The dancers wore masks and dressed as masquerade ball attendees, performing a Gothic-inspired choreography.[46][80] Midway through the act, her dancers ripped off the gown to reveal an outfit combining a black leather top with gold embroidery on the sides, high-waisted pants, and knee-high boots.[86][93] After finishing the song, Swift put on a black laced dress and performed "All Too Well" on a red piano.[87][90]

Swift (center) wearing a red sequined coat as her dancers dressed as circus characters
Swift playing a circus ringmaster during "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together", the closing number

The next number, "Love Story", opened with dancers dressed as dolls emerging from a music box.[58][94][95] Swift wore a long white dress as she stepped out of the box barefoot and, along with the dancers, reenacted the play Romeo and Juliet with a happy ending.[39][46] After quickly changing costumes, Swift returned to the stage in a black sparkling backless top and a white tutu skirt to perform "Treacherous" barefoot on a narrow arm in the center of the stage that rose up several feet from the second half of the song.[29][33][55][96]

The concert concluded with "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together". The performance was staged like a circus, inspired by the novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, with dancers dressed as various characters: a clown walking on stilts holding a red umbrella, a jester in red and white checkered clothes, a fairy in a tutu skirt, and rabbits; Swift was dressed as the ringmaster, in a red sequined jacket and a tall hat.[43][46][91] The runway between the stage rose and spun over the audience's heads, and Swift asked the audience to sing along with her and ended the song with confetti and fireworks.[39] After saluting the audience with her band, Swift went up the stairs and disappeared from the stage before the five screens lowered and the words "Thank You" scrolled across.[38][43][97]

Ticket sales and box office

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Tickets for the Red Tour went on sales on November 16, 2012, for shows in North America,[98] May 21, 2013, for Australia and New Zealand,[61] October 4, 2013, for the UK,[17] and October 25, 2023, for Germany.[29] Ticket sales for the Asian shows depended on each location's organizers.[21][60] Tickets for many concerts sold out quickly: 14 dates sold out within one day of sale;[59] the San Diego show and initial two Los Angeles shows sold out within 60 seconds; the Toronto, two Washington, D.C. shows, and two Atlanta shows in 5 minutes; the Detroit show in 10 minutes; and the Chicago show in under 30 minutes.[99] Swift added shows in Toronto, Foxborough, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles in response to the high demand.[99][100]

Swift singing while wearing a white dress and barefoot, holding hands with a male dancer
Swift performing "Love Story" at the O2 Arena in London; high demand for the tour made her extend the London gig to five shows.[19]

Sold-out dates also led to additional concerts announced for Auckland[101][102] and London,[19][103] while most Asian dates—Manila, Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok (later cancelled), Tokyo—sold out within hours.[104][105][106][107] All 18,000 tickets for the Shanghai show sold out within one minute, registering the Red Tour as the fastest-selling concert in Chinese history.[108][109] After canceling the Bangkok show due to political unrest, Swift added a second show in Singapore to replace that concert for June 9, 2014, with priority given to those who had purchased tickets in Bangkok.[104][110] The Red Tour's four sold-out dates at Staples Center in Los Angeles brought Swift's total number of sold-out concerts at this arena to 11, making her the female artist with the most sold-out shows there.[111] Swift also became the first female artist in 20 years to tour Australian stadiums since Madonna with the Girlie Show in 1993[14] and the first female artist to sell out Allianz Stadium in Sydney since it opened in 1988.[112]

Box office data for the Red Tour were reported by Billboard and Pollstar. In Billboard's mid-year report of "Top 25 Tours" published in July 2013, the Red Tour garnered $38.9 million in revenue from 29 shows.[113] According to Pollstar's mid-year statistics as of July 2013, the tour earned $58.5 million from 37 shows.[114][115] By the end of 2013, the Red Tour ranked seventh in Billboard's report for the top global tours of the year, reaching $115.4 million from 66 sold-out dates;[116][117] Pollstar reported $112.7 million from 1,335,308 tickets sold.[118] After the Australasian leg concluded, the Red Tour grossed $131 million from 1,481,900 concertgoers, 73 shows, and 52 cities, becoming 2013's eighth-highest-grossing global tour and highest-grossing North American tour.[119][120] According to Billboard, Swift earned nearly $30 million in 2013, from touring in the US alone.[63]

Upon its conclusion, Billboard reported that the Red Tour grossed $150.2 million from 1,702,933 tickets sold. It surpassed the record of $141 million set by Tim McGraw and Faith Hill's Soul2Soul II Tour (2006–2007) to become the highest-grossing tour of all time by a country artist.[121] The Red Tour registered several venue records. Its 21 shows from 13 different venues were included in Pollstar's 2013 year-end ranking of the 200 highest nightly concert grosses in North America.[122][123][124] Billboard highlighted the shows in Foxborough ($9.4 million, 110,712 tickets), London ($5.8 million, 74,740 tickets), Fargo ($1.7 million, 21,073 tickets), Shanghai ($1.8 million, 12,793 tickets), and Pittsburgh ($4.7 million, 56,047 tickets) as among the most lucrative of the tour,[121] while Pollstar also highlighted the show in Melbourne ($4.6 million, 47,257 tickets).[125]

Critical reception

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The Red Tour received generally positive reviews, with particular praise for the stage presence and emotional connection that Swift brought to her audience. Rolling Stone's Rob Sheffield complimented the various emotions that she portrayed through her songs "with so much wit and empathy" and hailed her stage persona as a "true arena-rock goddess at an amazing peak".[42] Eric Sundermann from The Village Voice remarked that Swift was in total control of the room and that her intermittent speeches about her life lessons to the audience were a testament to her "endless appealing nature as a performer".[126] Lydia Jenkin of The New Zealand Herald was impressed by Swift's noticeable passion for performing that kept "the entire crowd on their feet right from the top".[43] Jordan Kretchmer of The Guardian gave the Sydney show four stars out of five; he said that although Swift's "folksy chat" with her young female fans "would be easy to [be mocked at]", it was targeted at the right audience.[85] Also from The Guardian, Rebecca Nicholson gave the first London show a five-star rating. She described Swift as a "consummate crowd pleaser" and a "professional big sister", highlighting her interactions with fans in the crowd.[94]

There were also compliments for the production elements, with multiple comparisons to Broadway productions.[126][127][128] In The New York Times, Jon Caramanica contended that although the album Red was a "distracting" record musically, it translated into "a king-size spectacle" with visual and theatrical power.[79] Several commentators, including Kretchmer,[85] Jenkin,[43] and Owen R. Smith of The Seattle Times contended that the Red Tour showcased Swift's evolving status from a country musician to a pop star.[129] Mike Ross of the Edmonton Sun and Ben Walsh from The Independent both commented that Swift's charisma and steady command of the stage helped her navigate the multiple production elements with ease,[128][130] while Philippa Hawker of The Sydney Morning Herald wrote that some "rambling, inconsequential, even sentimental" moments all contributed to Swift's every-girl appeal.[44]

In a profile for New York, Jody Rosen commented that the Red Tour had "all the trappings of a stadium-pop blockbuster" but "the heart of a Taylor Swift show is intimacy".[35] For The Globe and Mail's J.D. Considine, while the visual spectacles of the Red Tour were impressive, Swift's songcraft and emphasis on the emotions of her songs were even more so.[76] Billboard's Chris Payne thought that Swift "struck a comfortable balance" by only using simple choreography for certain numbers, and he highlighted the acoustic segment as the most well-received from the crowd.[131] In congruence, Craig S. Semon of the Telegram & Gazette wrote that Swift's acoustic numbers on guitar alone "proved she could captivate a crowd without elaborate dance sequences, special-effects and razzle-dazzle".[39] Digital Spy's Emma Dibdin considered the tour a success because it "capitalises on exactly what makes Swift such a powerful figure for her audience, the sincere blend of aspirational and relatable".[46] Nicholson added that Swift's performances where she played instruments reminded the "quality of the songcraft".[94]

There were not as welcoming reviews, some having conflicting opinions on Swift's live vocals. Caramanica thought that her singing became stronger and sturdier than in the past,[79] and Ross considered her voice "sweet and powerful" and appreciated that there was no lip syncing.[128] On a less positive side, Alice Vincent of The Daily Telegraph found Swift's voice "shaky" during some numbers.[132] Marc Hirsh of The Boston Globe thought that Swift's volume was inconsistent throughout the show and she sometimes sounded as if she were struggling even if her voice was in the right pitch.[133] Rebecca Ford of The Hollywood Reporter thought that some songs were distracting and Swift's voice "has a habit of faltering or being too soft to hear over the band" despite having become stronger than in the past.[77] For Randall Roberts of the Los Angeles Times, the show was a "well-choreographed mega-production" with seamless transitions "spun with the consistent beauty of a ballet dancer in full pirouette". However, Roberts thought that the show was too calculated that Swift sometimes seemed "more a symbol than human".[78]

Accolades

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The Sydney Morning Herald ranked Swift's Red Tour concert in Brisbane as one of the city's top 10 music moments of 2013.[134] Caramanica selected the March 27, 2013, concert in Newark as one of the year's most memorable.[135] At the 2013 Billboard Live Music Awards, the Red Tour won Top Package.[136]

Year Organization Award Result Ref.
2013 Billboard Live Music Awards Top Package Won [136]
Concert Marketing and Promotion Nominated
2013 MTV Europe Music Awards Best Live Act Nominated
[137]
2013 Teen Choice Awards Choice Summer Tour Nominated
[138]

Set list

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The set list below is adapted from the March 28, 2013, show in Newark, New Jersey. It does not represent all shows.[42]

  1. "State of Grace"
  2. "Holy Ground"
  3. "Red"
  4. "You Belong with Me"
  5. "The Lucky One"
  6. "Mean"
  7. "Stay Stay Stay" (contains excerpts from "Ho Hey")
  8. "22"
  9. Surprise song
  10. "Everything Has Changed" (with Ed Sheeran)
  11. "Begin Again"
  12. "Sparks Fly"
  13. "I Knew You Were Trouble"
  14. "All Too Well"
  15. "Love Story"
  16. "Treacherous"
  17. "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together"

Surprise songs

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The following songs were performed by Swift as a "surprise song":

Special guests

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Swift surprised fans throughout the tour with special guests, with whom she performed a duet.

Tour dates

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List of 2013 concerts[196]
Date (2013) City Country Venue Opening act Attendance Revenue
March 13 Omaha United States CenturyLink Center Omaha Ed Sheeran
Brett Eldredge 		27,877 / 27,877 $2,243,164
March 14
March 18 St. Louis Scottrade Center 28,582 / 28,582 $2,346,203
March 19
March 22 Charlotte Time Warner Cable Arena 14,686 / 14,686 $1,162,733
March 23 Columbia Colonial Life Arena 12,490 / 12,490 $996,114
March 27 Newark[c] Prudential Center Ed Sheeran
Jana Kramer 		38,065 / 38,065 $3,565,317
March 28
March 29
April 10 Miami American Airlines Arena Ed Sheeran
Brett Eldredge 		12,808 / 12,808 $1,010,175
April 11 Orlando Amway Center 25,617 / 25,617 $2,054,128
April 12
April 18 Atlanta Philips Arena 25,471 / 25,471 $2,048,023
April 19
April 20 Tampa Tampa Bay Times Forum 14,080 / 14,080 $1,132,095
April 25 Cleveland Quicken Loans Arena 15,336 / 15,336 $1,247,605
April 26 Indianapolis Bankers Life Fieldhouse 13,573 / 13,573 $1,082,042
April 27 Lexington Rupp Arena 17,003 / 17,003 $1,342,699
May 4 Detroit Ford Field Ed Sheeran
Austin Mahone
Brett Eldredge 		48,265 / 48,265 $3,969,059
May 7 Louisville KFC Yum! Center Ed Sheeran
Florida Georgia Line 		15,135 / 15,135 $1,246,491
May 8 Columbus Nationwide Arena 14,267 / 14,267 $1,155,170
May 11 Washington, D.C. Verizon Center Ed Sheeran
Brett Eldredge 		27,619 / 27,619 $2,489,205
May 12
May 16 Houston Toyota Center 12,467 / 12,467 $961,422
May 21 Austin Frank Erwin Center Ed Sheeran
Florida Georgia Line 		11,916 / 11,916 $935,631
May 22 San Antonio AT&T Center 13,974 / 13,974 $1,105,253
May 25 Arlington[d] AT&T Stadium Ed Sheeran
Austin Mahone
Florida Georgia Line 		53,020 / 53,020 $4,589,266
May 28 Glendale[e] Jobing.com Arena Ed Sheeran
Joel Crouse 		26,705 / 26,705 $2,239,370
May 29
June 1 Salt Lake City EnergySolutions Arena 14,007 / 14,007 $1,139,360
June 2 Denver Pepsi Center 13,489 / 13,489 $1,076,069
June 14 Toronto Canada Rogers Centre Ed Sheeran
Austin Mahone
Joel Crouse 		87,627 / 87,627 $7,863,310
June 15
June 22 Winnipeg Investors Group Field 33,061 / 33,061 $3,175,430
June 25 Edmonton Rexall Place Ed Sheeran
Joel Crouse 		25,663 / 25,663 $2,379,870
June 26
June 29 Vancouver BC Place Stadium Ed Sheeran
Austin Mahone
Joel Crouse 		41,142 / 41,142 $3,974,410
July 6 Pittsburgh United States Heinz Field 56,047 / 56,047 $4,718,518
July 13 East Rutherford[f] MetLife Stadium 52,399 / 52,399 $4,670,011
July 19 Philadelphia Lincoln Financial Field 101,277 / 101,277 $8,822,335
July 20
July 26 Foxborough Gillette Stadium 110,712 / 110,712 $9,464,063
July 27
August 1 Des Moines Wells Fargo Arena Ed Sheeran
Florida Georgia Line 		13,368 / 13,368 $1,075,576
August 2 Kansas City Sprint Center 26,412 / 26,412 $2,093,172
August 3
August 6 Wichita Intrust Bank Arena Ed Sheeran
Casey James 		12,231 / 12,231 $983,882
August 7 Tulsa BOK Center 10,949 / 10,949 $868,955
August 10 Chicago Soldier Field Ed Sheeran
Austin Mahone
Casey James 		50,809 / 50,809 $4,149,148
August 15 San Diego Valley View Casino Center Ed Sheeran
Casey James 		10,872 / 10,872 $948,541
August 19 Los Angeles Staples Center 55,829 / 55,829 $4,734,463
August 20
August 23
August 24
August 27 Sacramento Sleep Train Arena 12,795 / 12,795 $1,138,103
August 30 Portland Moda Center 13,952 / 13,952 $1,084,760
August 31 Tacoma[g] Tacoma Dome 20,348 / 20,348 $1,584,049
September 6 Fargo Fargodome 21,073 / 21,073 $1,661,578
September 7 Saint Paul Xcel Energy Center 28,920 / 28,920 $2,320,937
September 8
September 12 Greensboro Greensboro Coliseum 13,650 / 13,650 $1,109,253
September 13 Raleigh PNC Arena 13,941 / 13,941 $1,088,612
September 14 Charlottesville John Paul Jones Arena 12,689 / 12,689 $997,216
September 19 Nashville Bridgestone Arena 41,292 / 41,292 $3,336,545
September 20
September 21
November 29 Auckland New Zealand Vector Arena Neon Trees 30,799 / 30,799 $3,100,290
November 30
December 1
December 4 Sydney Australia Allianz Stadium Guy Sebastian
Neon Trees 		40,930 / 40,930 $4,096,060
December 7 Brisbane Suncorp Stadium 38,907 / 38,907 $3,895,810
December 11 Perth nib Stadium 21,827 / 21,827 $2,364,080
December 14 Melbourne Etihad Stadium 47,257 / 47,257 $4,547,250
List of 2014 concerts[197][198]
Date (2014) City Country Venue Opening acts Attendance Revenue
February 1 London England The O2 Arena The Vamps 74,740 / 75,775[h] $5,829,240[h]
February 2
February 4
February 7 Berlin Germany O2 World Andreas Bourani 10,350 / 10,350 $755,006
February 10 London England The O2 Arena The Vamps [h] [h]
February 11
May 30 Shanghai China Mercedes-Benz Arena — 12,793 / 12,793 $1,864,934
June 1 Saitama[i] Japan Saitama Super Arena CTS 20,046 / 20,046 $1,837,147
June 4 Jakarta Indonesia MEIS Ancol Nicole Zefanya 8,130 / 8,130 $1,481,473
June 6 Pasay[j] Philippines Mall of Asia Arena Meg Bucsit 9,775 / 9,775 $1,511,662
June 9 Singapore Singapore Indoor Stadium Imprompt-3 16,344 / 16,344[k] $2,524,080[k]
June 11 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia Putra Indoor Stadium IamNeeta 7,525 / 7,525 $998,608
June 12 Singapore Singapore Indoor Stadium Imprompt-3 [k] [k]
Total 1,701,898 / 1,702,933
(99.9%) 		$150,184,971

Cancelled show

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List of cancelled concerts, showing date, city, country, venue, and reason for cancellation
Date (2014) City Country Venue Reason
June 9 Pak Kret[l] Thailand Impact Arena Political unrest[23]

Notes

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  1. ^ In some performances such as in Oceania and Asia, Swift performed "You Belong with Me" in an acoustic version on the B stage.[81][38][82]
  2. ^ At several concerts, Swift walked back to the main stage, greeting and shaking hands with the audience instead.[24][81][38]
  3. ^ Labelled as New York City in promotional material
  4. ^ Labelled as Dallas in promotional material
  5. ^ Labelled as Phoenix in promotional material
  6. ^ Labelled as New York City in promotional material
  7. ^ Labelled as Seattle in promotional material
  8. ^ a b c d The score data is combined from the shows held at the O2 Arena on February 1, 2, 4, 10 and 11.
  9. ^ Labelled as Tokyo in promotional material
  10. ^ Labelled as Manila in promotional material
  11. ^ a b c d The score data is combined from the shows held at the Singapore Indoor Stadium on June 9 and 12.
  12. ^ Labelled as Bangkok in promotional material

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