Taylor Swift will include The Tortured Poets Department in her ‘Eras’ tour setlist.

Taylor Swift is just hours away from playing her first “Eras” tour show in two months. However, the tour’s setlist is bound to be modified after the release of The Tortured Poets Department.

Major “Eras” tour setlist change

The tour promoter for Swift’s stop in France dropped a bombshell regarding the “Eras” tour setlist (via France Info). Swift will be implementing songs from The Tortured Poets Department, which was released in the middle of her two-month break, into the setlist.

He said, “We are going to discover a slightly modified show since she has released a new album since she stopped its Australian release.”

He elaborated, “So she’s going to include new pieces from her new album.”

This move puts to rest any fears that Swift wouldn’t play songs from her new album on the tour. After all, this is the “Eras” tour. The Tortured Poets Department is a part of her latest era.

Where will the songs go? 

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The real question is where Swift cuts out songs. As it stands, Swift plays an average of 45 songs per show on the “Eras” tour. Every show has started and ended in similar fashion, with “Miss Americana and the Heartbreak Prince” opening the show and “Karma” closing all 83 shows thus far.

It’s more likely that Swift will play The Tortured Poets Department songs at the end of the set. Before the album was released, Swift was closing out her sets with seven songs from Midnights, her latest release at that point. With The Tortured Poets Department being her latest release, perhaps she will cut out songs from the Midnights set to make space for her new album.

Some of Swift’s albums also get more time to shine than others. As noted, Midnights gets seven songs per night. Lover, which opens the show, gets six songs. Evermore and 1989 get five while Reputation and Red each get four songs. Folklore gets seven songs.

In addition to the regular album tracks, Swift usually leaves two slots open for surprise songs. Had she not devoted more space to The Tortured Poets Department, it’s possible she could have played a couple of songs each night at this point in the show.

Taylor Swift’s 2024 tour

Taylor Swift began the “Eras” tour in March 2023 with two shows in Glendale, Arizona. Swift then took the tour across North America in 2023 and also played shows in Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil.

In February 2024, Swift resumed the tour with shows in Japan, Australia, and Singapore. After a two-month break, Swift will resume the tour on May 9 with four shows in Nanterre, France. She will subsequently bring the tour across Europe before returning to North America in October.

As of the time of this writing, Swift will close out the tour with nine more shows in North America and nine shows in Canada.

To commemorate the tour, Swift released a concert film — Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour. The film was a huge hit, grossing over $260 million at the box office and becoming the highest-grossing concert film ever.