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The exclusive performance came from night 1 of The Eras Tour in Glendale, Arizona, exactly two years ago today.<\/p>\n

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At Monday night\u2019s (March 17)\u00a02<\/a>025 iHeartRadio Music Awards,\u00a0Taylor Swift\u2018s groundbreaking\u00a0Eras Tour\u00a0was given a title it will spend the next 75 years defending: tour of the century. And to celebrate the honor, Swift treated the iHeart audience to her live performance of \u201cMirrorball\u201d from the acoustic set of her very first Eras Tour date in Glendale, Arizona.<\/div>\n
The Eras Tour kicked off in March 2023 \u2014 two years ago today, in fact \u2014 and wrapped in December 2024. Swift\u2019s record-setting global trek grossed more than $2 billion and sold over 10 million tickets. The Eras Tour is the highest-grossing tour of all time, by artists of any genre, and from any era in music history, per\u00a0Billboard Boxscore. It surpasses the record of Coldplay\u2019s ongoing Music of the Spheres World Tour, the only other tour to gross more than $1 billion.<\/div>\n
Super Swiftie comedian Nikki Glaser announced the tour of the century honor by revealing that she attended 22 concerts of the trek. \u201cNever in my childless dog lady life will I ever witness a live performance of that magnitude,\u201d Glaser promised. \u201cEvery single show was a marathon of perfection, the vocals, the athleticism, the costumes, the secret songs, my bedazzled adult diaper \u2014 those are memories and a rash I\u2019ll have forever. So it makes perfect sense why iHeartRadio is giving Taylor Swift the award for tour of the century.\u201d<\/div>\n
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While Swift wasn\u2019t in the building, she did send in a video message to thank iHeart and her dedicated fans.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been doing a lot of processing since I\u2019ve been off the road these last few months,\u201d Swift said in the video. \u201cAnd, you know, people often say that sometimes the greatest challenges in life end up being something you\u2019re so proud of, or end up being the most gratifying feeling in the end, if you can rise to the occasion. And this tour was absolutely the most challenging thing I\u2019ve ever done in my life. Three and a half hour show,s more shows than I\u2019ve ever done on a tour, and it really was the most gratifying thing I\u2019ve ever done.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think about that tour constantly,\u201d she continued. \u201cI\u2019m so proud of it. And the only reason I was able to take on those challenges, among others, the ambition of the production, the length of the show, the amount of shows, all the different countries we played in, that\u2019s all because of the fans. You made the songs for the last couple decades into what they became so that we could do a three and a half hour setlist. You had the passion and the generosity to care about traveling to see us on tour in all these places all over the world. It blows my mind. I\u2019m never going to stop being grateful for it, and I appreciate this more than you know.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Swift had a treat for the audience in her absence, sharing a video of her \u201cMirrorball\u201d performance from\u00a0night 1<\/a>. Her second of two acoustic songs that night was her first single ever, \u201cTim McGraw.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier in the night, while accepting the breakthrough artist award, Gracie Abrams shouted out Swift for including her on The Eras Tour as an opening act throughout its two-year run, giving thanks \u201cfor the incredible artists who allowed me to share their stages at different times and in different ways \u2014 Taylor and Olivia [Rodrigo] and Noah Kahan and The National.\u201d<\/p>\n

Watch Swift\u2019s acceptance speech below:<\/p>\n

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