Edited by: Du Yu
According to Xinhua News Agency, the Austrian Interior Ministry announced on August 7 that police arrested two people on the same day suspected of planning a terrorist attack on the concert of American singer Taylor Swift (nicknamed "Taylor Swift") suspects.
Franz Ruf, head of public security of the Austrian Interior Ministry, said at a press conference on the 7th that the police arrested a 19-year-old suspect in Ternitz, a small town near the capital Vienna, that morning. Allegiance to the extremist organization "Islamic State". Another suspect was arrested in Vienna that afternoon. Police are investigating the incident.
The organizer of Swift's concert announced on social media on the evening of the 7th that would cancel Swift's three performances in Vienna due to safety reasons.
According to reports, Swift was originally scheduled to hold three concerts in Vienna from the 8th to the 10th, which are expected to attract 170,000 viewers.
Taylor Swift (Photo source: Visual China)
On April 3, Beijing time, Forbes released the 38th Global Billionaires List. American music queen Taylor Swift has officially entered the rich list. With a net worth of US$1.1 billion (approximately RMB 7.9 billion), she has become the first artist in history to become a billionaire based solely on her music and acting income.
Swift also has an enviable real estate investment portfolio, owning houses in New York, Beverly Hills, Nashville, and a mansion with ocean views in Rhode Island.
According to Brokerage China, Swift's "Times Tour" was held in Singapore for six consecutive times in March this year, which not only brought huge economic benefits to the host country, but also made fans around the world crazy about it to an unprecedented degree. . The concert started on March 2 and ended on March 9, attracting more than 300,000 fans from Singapore and other countries around the world, which is equivalent to 5.3% of Singapore's total population. For a time, Singapore's hotels were full, consumption data was strong, and there was a massive shortage of even temporary jobs. This economic phenomenon was called "slut economics" by the outside world. Economists also raised their first-quarter growth forecasts for Singapore's economy, with some attributing the growth in part to the economic impact of Swift's concerts.
"Times Tour" is Swift's first global tour in five years. It will start in March 2023 and continue until the end of 2024. It plans to hold 151 concerts around the world, making it her most ambitious tour to date. . According to Bloomberg, the ticket sales of Swift's "Times Tour" in the United States alone exceeded US$700 million, and this does not include the ticket sales of her 89-day international tour. Pollstar estimates that it grossed $1.04 billion in the first 60 performances alone.
According to previous reports by Zhi News, the Singaporean government provided subsidies of up to US$3 million for each of Swift's concerts, and set conditions requiring Singapore to become the only stop in Southeast Asia for the "eras tour". The Singapore government's massive investment has certainly paid off, attracting fans from many Asian countries to snap up tickets, book flights and hotels.
Taylor Swift (Picture source: @directnews)
According to estimates, in the first half of last year, Swift’s 52 performances in the United States created about 5 billion US dollars (about 36 billion yuan) in GDP for the United States. By the end of the year For the first time, Time magazine has selected a single artist as its Person of the Year. Swift has also become one of the few people in the world who has accumulated more than $1 billion in assets through music alone. Question Pro, a foreign data analysis agency, once pointed out that if Swift were an economy, its size would exceed 50 small countries, and it could be called a walking GDP.
Swift was born on December 13, 1989 in Pennsylvania, USA. She is an American female singer, songwriter, music producer, and actress. In 2006, she released her first music album "Taylor Swift".In November 2008, she released her second album "fearless", which topped the U.S. Billboard 200 album chart for 11 weeks and was certified 6x platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. The album won the 52nd She won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year; in October 2014, she released her fifth album "1989", which sold more than 1.28 million copies in the first week of release, becoming the highest first-week sales record in the U.S. record market in the past 12 years. With this album, he became the only singer to have three million-dollar first-week sales.
Since her debut, Swift has released 243 songs and won 14 Grammy Awards, 40 American Music Awards, 39 Billboard Music Awards and 23 VMAs (MTV Music Television Awards). She is the only living singer in the world who has had 10 albums selected into the US Billboard charts at the same time. She is also the first musician in history to win the Grammy Award for Album of the Year four times.
At the age of 26, Swift set a Guinness World Record for the highest annual income for a female musician with an annual income of US$170 million (approximately RMB 1.2 billion). Currently, Swift has 280 million fans on the social platform Instagram, and the number of fans online exceeds 450 million. Today, Swift has transformed from the country music singer who played and sang with her guitar to a "diva" figure in the global music industry. Taylor Swift has also become the first billionaire in the world who relies solely on music as a source of income, and can be called the "richest man" in the global music industry.
Daily Economic News Comprehensive Xinhua News Agency, Direct News, Brokerage China
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