Will ‘Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour’ movie help her clean up at the Grammys?

Daniel Montgomery
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“Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour” officially opened on Friday, October 13. Under normal circumstances, Friday the 13th wouldn’t seem like an advantageous time to do anything except maybe get hunted by a hockey-masked serial killer, but in this case it happens to coincide with Grammy voting, which started on October 11 and ends October 20. Will that help her clean up in the nominations?

“The Eras Tour” has been a blockbuster on concert stages, and it was a blockbuster in movie theaters before it was even released, selling $100 million just in pre-sale tickets. That’s an astronomical number for a concert documentary, but it’s par for the course for Swift, who has enjoyed unprecedented success for the past year.

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Her “Midnights” album dropped in October 2022 and in its first week achieved more than 1.5 million equivalent album units based on its combined record sales, individual track sales and online streams. Almost a year later “Midnights” is still in the top 10 on the Billboard 200 albums chart. And thanks in large part to her “Eras” tour, she has five other albums in the top 20.

On the Billboard Hot 100 her single “Anti-Hero” spent eight weeks at number-one, making it the longest chart leader of her career. She even achieved a top-five hit with “Cruel Summer,” a song that’s four years old. Oh, and she also swept the VMAs with nine trophies, tying Peter Gabriel‘s all-time record for the most wins in a single year by an artist.

But can she win Album of the Year again? She prevailed for “Fearless,” “1989” and “Folklore,” and she’s the current front-runner in our racetrack odds. Based on the year she has had a nomination for “Midnights” seems all but guaranteed. Whether she wins, though, is another question. Recording academy members might hesitate to give her a fourth Album of the Year title as that would set a new record. She’ll just be 34-years-old by the time Grammys are handed out in February. Does an artist that young deserve to already have more Album of the Year titles than Paul Simon, Stevie Wonder and Frank Sinatra? We’ll find out soon enough.

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