£1bn history maker

Superstar to play the biggest shows in Scottish history in front of over 200,000 fans & £80m boost for local economy

- JOHN DINGWALL

SUPERSTAR Taylor Swift will make history tonight as she kicks off the biggest pop shows in Scottish history.

Swift, 34, is in Scotland to perform for three-and-a-half hours tonight as part of her £lbillion Eras world tour. It is the first of three sell-out stadium shows at Edinburgh's Scottish Gas Murrayfield Stadium, which will be seen by more than 200,000 fans.

The Tortured Poets Department hitmaker, who last played Scotland at Glasgow's Hydro venue in 2015, told The Record: "Every time I perform in Scotland it honestly feels like I am coming home."

Fans have flooded Scotland's capital for Swift's shows which have been described as "the tour of a generation.

For each concert, she'll perform 46 of her best-loved songs from 10 albums in her 18-year career and make 16 costume changes.

By the end of the tour, Swift will have played 152 Eras shows across 54 cities worldwide, including Liverpool and Cardiff as well as eight Wembley Stadium concerts, all of which sold out almost instantly.

That dwarfs everything that has gone before in terms of size and revenue for a music event. Swift also broke a Ticketmaster record with more than 2.4million tickets sold - the most by an artist in a single day - in the presale alone.