Taylor Swift’s concerts can be seen from SPACE! Satellite photos reveal the sheer extent of the crowd at her sold-out Denver show – complete with 7,200 cars in the parking lot
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Taylor Swift’s concerts can be seen from SPACE! Satellite photos show crowd size at her sold-out show in Denver — complete with 7,200 cars in the parking lot
- Satellites captured a series of photos from Taylor Swift’s show in Denver last week
- At 6:27 pm – three minutes before the show – the stadium and parking lots were full
Tickets for Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour are the hottest in town, with touts trying to resell them to desperate fans for up to £10,000.
Now satellite images have revealed the pop star’s massive popularity.
Virginia-based company BlackSky used a satellite to take a series of photos of Denver’s Empower Field at Mile High, before and after Taylor Swift took the stage last week.
As expected, the performance was completely sold out, both the stadium and the parking lot were packed.
“Analysis estimates there were about 7,200 cars in the parking lots!” BlackSky tweeted.
Virginia-based company BlackSky used a satellite to take a series of photos of Denver’s Empower Field at Mile High, before and after Taylor Swift took the stage last week
Swift performed two shows in Denver on July 14 and July 15, with as many as 70,000 fans coming to watch each night
Swift performed two shows in Denver on July 14 and July 15, with as many as 70,000 fans coming to watch each night.
After the performances, Swift tweeted, “Just had the best time in Denver!! And we got to be the first tour to play 2 nights in that stadium.
“It really hits me that we only have 3 cities left on the US Eras Tour.
“This has been my favorite adventure of all. I appreciate and cherish every second of it.’
To put into perspective the enormity of her concert, BlackSky turned to the constellation of Earth observation satellites, which orbit at an altitude of about 450 km.
The concert started at 6:30 pm and satellites showed how much the stadium changed during the day.
“We captured footage at 9:36 AM, 3:40 PM, and 6:27 PM MT from the Denver stop of the #ErasTour,” BlackSky tweeted.
The satellite image at 09:36 shows an almost empty parking lot, while the stadium itself is also empty.
However, at 3:40 pm – almost three hours before the show – the parking lot started to fill up.
The concert started at 6:30 pm and satellites showed how much the stadium changed during the day
Finally, at 6:27 pm – three minutes before the show – both the stadium and the parking lots were completely full.
“Analysis estimates there were about 7,200 cars in the parking lots!” BlackSky added.
The new footage comes as Taylor Swift fans once again berate Ticketmaster after discovering that tickets they bought for friends and family for the highly anticipated UK Eras Tour could be useless.
The ticketing giant has updated its terms and conditions to make the sold-out tour a “lead booker” event, meaning the person who purchased the tickets must be present at the venue to enter.
This is likely to put off ticketing touts and resellers, with tickets already listed on resale sites for up to £10,000.
But this has left many Swifties attending UK gigs in London, Liverpool, Edinburgh and Cardiff furious that tickets bought as gifts for friends will be void.
Others have complained that this could mean children who have tickets bought for them by their parents will not be able to enter, while those who want to but can’t due to illness may not be able to give tickets away to friends.
Taylor not-so-Swift: Pop music evolves as slow as a snail
Despite more than half a century of rapid musical change from the Beatles to Taylor Swift, pop music is evolving as slowly as the animal kingdom, according to scientists.
A new study led by researchers at Imperial College London has found that the evolution of modern culture, including pop music, is as slow as biological evolution.
The scientists looked at recent accounts of changes in pop music, literature, scientific papers and cars to see how quickly culture evolves, and compared them to rates of change in finches, moths and a type of snail.
The team then applied statistics developed by evolutionary biologists to calculate the rates of change for both groups over time.
Not only did they find that animals and culture have similar rates of change, but that both are shaped by selective forces that stabilize them or cause them to move in a particular direction — such as the shift from new wave to new romantics.
From Taylor Swift’s country-based roots to her modern dance floor songs, it may seem like pop culture is changing very fast, but new British research suggests it’s evolving no faster than the animal kingdom