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Taylor Swift adds second Croke Park date to Reputation tour

Star turn: Swift’s new album Reputation is the biggest seller in the US in a single week

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Ronan McGreevy
Fri Dec 01 2017 - 15:27

Pop superstar Taylor Swift is to add a second date at Croke Park to her Reputation tour.

Swift has now added Friday, June 15th, to her scheduled concert on Saturday, June 16th.

Kanye dig it? Taylor Swift’s Look What You Made Me Do misfired, but Ready for It? and Gorgeous hit the target. Photograph: Kevin Mazur/Getty Images
Kanye dig it? Taylor Swift’s Look What You Made Me Do misfired, but Ready for It? and Gorgeous hit the target. Photograph: Kevin Mazur/Getty Images

She also added extra dates at Manchester’s Etihad Stadium and London’s Wembley Stadium because of demand.

The confirmation of a second concert at Croke Park means the venue now has its three concerts allocated for next year. Michael Bublé will play Croke Park on July 7th.

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Swift’s new album Reputation become the biggest-selling album of the year in the US in a single week, with 1.23 million sales, comfortably beating Ed Sheeran’s Divide.

Kneel diamond: Taylor Swift in concert. Photograph: John Shearer/Getty Images
Kneel diamond: Taylor Swift in concert. Photograph: John Shearer/Getty Images

Reputation sold more hard copies on CD on the first week of release than the rest of the albums put together on the Billboard 200.

Tickets for the added dates go on sale to the general public next Friday, December 8th.

Ronan McGreevy

Ronan McGreevy

Ronan McGreevy is a news reporter with The Irish Times