Released December 20, 2015 Venue ANZ Stadium Length 2:11:54 Initial release 20 December 2015 Cinematography Pär M. Ekberg | Recorded November 28, 2015 Genre Pop Label Big Machine Records Director Jonas Åkerlund | |
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Producers Violaine Etienne, Scott Horan Executive producers Taylor Swift, Baz Halpin, Lawrence Jackson Cast Cara Delevingne, Ellen DeGeneres, Kobe Bryant, Lena Dunham, Ciara Similar I'm Going to Tell You a Secret, Paul McCartney: Live Kisses, On the Run Tour: Beyoncé, Spun, Taylor Swift: Speak No | ||
The 1989 World Tour Live is a live video album/concert film by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. It was released on December 20, 2015, exclusively via Apple Music. Directed by Jonas Åkerlund, the film monitors the Sydney stop of Swift's fourth headlining concert tour, The 1989 World Tour. The show, which was attended by 75,980 fans, remains Swift's most attended concert to date.
Background
In 2014, Taylor Swift released her fifth studio album, 1989. It was a massive commercial success, debuting atop the Billboard 200, retaining the position for eleven non-consecutive weeks, becoming the fifth album in history to spend its first year in the Top 10 of the chart and topping the 2015 Year-End Chart. It was certified quintuple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), and has sold over 5,750,000 copies in the United States, while selling over 9.5 million copies worldwide.
1989 won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year, making Swift the first female act to win the award twice, following her win in 2010 for her sophomore effort, Fearless. Additionally, it produced five consecutive Billboard Hot 100 Top 10 hits, "Shake It Off" (No.1 for four non-consecutive weeks), "Blank Space" (No.1 for seven consecutive weeks), "Style" (No.6), "Bad Blood" (No.1 for one week) and "Wildest Dreams" (No.5).
In 2015, Swift embarked on her fourth headlining concert tour, The 1989 World Tour. The tour was commercially successful, grossing over $250 million. The Sydney stop of the tour was attended by 76,000 fans, Swift's most attended concert to date. On December 13, 2015, Swift announced she would release a live album monitoring the aforementioned show exclusively via Apple Music. The album was released on December 20, 2015.
Apart from Swift's performance, the film also manifests exclusive clips, never-seen-before interviews and behind-the-scenes footage of the production of the tour. Additionally, snippets of Swift performing with fellow celebrities such as Lorde, Karlie Kloss, Mick Jagger and Ellen DeGeneres at other venues were also included.