Taylor Swift fans will have another chance Thursday to score prized tickets to see the pop star perform in Toronto next year.
The Nov. 16, 2024 show will go on sale at 11 a.m. ET and the Nov. 21, 2024 date will be up for grabs at 1 p.m. ET.
Ticketmaster is staggering ticket presales for six shows at the Rogers Centre over three days to avoid online technical issues Swift fans may have encountered for past shows.
Buyers must have already registered for and received a “verified fan” sale code in order to get in the virtual queue for the tickets.
The first day of ticket sales on Wednesday was marked by celebration and disappointment, as some fans scored seats for the first two nights of Swift’s stop in Toronto while others were wait-listed.
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The only Canadian stop on Swift’s global Eras Tour is expected to draw fans from all over the country and beyond, and give Toronto’s economy a boost next fall.
As of Thursday morning, Swift had not publicly replied to the Canadian leader.
Why isn’t Taylor coming to Canada?
The Eras tour, which began in the United States in March, will see Swift perform across the globe.
So far, she is slated to take the stage in Mexico, Europe, Asia and Australia over the next year.
No Canadian dates have been announced for her international leg and it’s not clear if more will be added.
Trudeau’s Twitter request is not likely going to sway Swift, said Eric Alper, a music industry expert in Toronto, adding he suspects bypassing Canada was an “economic decision” by the multiple Grammy winner.
“It’s nice to see when politicians end up in the pop culture realm, but it’s not going to do anything,” Alper said in an interview with Global News.
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Canada’s huge landmass and its relatively smaller population makes it a “really tough country to tour”, he said.
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Compared to the U.S. and the U.K., Canada also does not have many large venues that can hold over 50,000 people, Alper said.
“When you’re working in a country at 35 per cent less on the dollar, it doesn’t make sense just now to tour when Taylor Swift is just simply laser focused on playing to the most people that she possibly can in the shortest period of time, and also has her sights set on potentially music’s first billion-dollar tour.”
Swift’s snub of Canada has made its way to the House of Commons, with Conservative MP Matt Jeneroux saying last month he would file an “official” grievance “on behalf of all Swifties” in the country.
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“It has come to my attention that despite much anticipation, Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour has neglected to include any Canadian dates or locations as she released her international dates, which includes stops throughout Asia and Europe,” Jeneroux wrote in a letter dated and signed on Wednesday, June 21.
Neither Swift nor her management has addressed the decision to skip Canada. Swift last performed in Canada in 2018.
The Eras tour is set to end at London’s Wembley Stadium on Aug. 17, 2024.
