Despite earning 6 nominations at this year’s Grammy Awards, pop icon Taylor Swift will not be gracing the ceremony’s stage with a live performance on February 5th. Instead, Swift will head overseas immediately after music’s biggest night for a string of sold-out shows in Tokyo. While Swifties may feel disappointed, the global superstar’s jam-packed schedule is a testament to her unprecedented success.
Overseas Commitments Prevent a Swift Grammys Set
Fresh off breaking ticket sale records in the United States last year, Swift’s Eras Tour will relaunch with a four-night stand at Tokyo’s Olympic Stadium on February 7th. She’ll then continue trekking through Asia and Europe over the next several months.
With rehearsals and travel to coordinate around the Tokyo kickoff, Swift’s team likely determined that a Grammys gig would overextend the pop dynamo. Still, she wouldn’t miss music’s biggest night. Swift will delay her overseas departure to attend the LA ceremony and support her 6 nominations.
- Album of the Year & Best Pop Vocal Album – “Midnights”
- Record of the Year, Song of the Year, & Best Pop Solo Performance – “Anti-Hero”
- Best Pop/Duo Group Performance – “Karma” (Taylor’s Version)
If Swift wins the Album of the Year honor, she’ll make history as the first artist ever to take home that prize 4 times.
“I wish I could go support Taylor at the Grammys and watch her win every single award that she’s nominated for. Unfortunately, I’ve got to get ready for this big ol’ Super Bowl we got in a week.” – Travis Kelce, Swift’s boyfriend and Kansas City Chiefs player, on missing the event for Super Bowl preparations
Testment to Swift’s Rockstar Reign
While Swifties may feel let down by the lack of a live performance, Swift’s absence underscores her unprecedented success over the last year. She simply couldn’t squeeze an ambitious Grammys set between wrapping her record-demolishing American tour leg and jetting off for one of 2023’s hottest global treks.
Few artists could even dream of headlining back-to-back stadium shows on two continents weeks apart. Yet for Swift, it’s just another marker of her rockstar reign.
Consider her Eras Tour achievements last year alone:
- Swift’s North American run sold over 2 million tickets, grossing a jaw-dropping $250 million
- It became the highest-grossing tour in history by a female artist
- Swift broke the record for most ticket sales at SoFi Stadium (LA) and MetLife Stadium (New Jersey)
That astonishing run was just Swift’s opening act before dominating overseas. She’ll give her Tokyo fans a show worth traveling for directly after scooping up some Grammy gold.
While the Grammys stage won’t shake under Swift’s vocals this year, her absence speaks louder than any performance could. As she jets sets off on the next history-making stretch of her Eras Tour, she cements her status as an unprecedented pop powerhouse scaling heights few dare imagine. For Swifties, it’s just further proof there’s no stopping their favorite global icon.