Taylor Swift's First 'Eras Tour' Aus Setlist: Live Debuts, Big Announcements & More

Taylor Swift is officially – and finally – in Australia on her long-awaited Eras Tour.

It’s a tour that’s broken records and made global headlines, thanks to her surprise songs, announcements, and fandom that hangs on to her every word. When the Australian leg of the tour was announced last June, we doubt anyone saw what would happen next coming: total. Pandemonium.

The demand for Swift’s Eras tour has led to four shows at Melbourne’s MCG and Sydney’s Accor Stadium. She was expected to pull in an estimated 86,000 punters per show in Melbourne, a number already broken when 96,000 attendees rocked up to her first show of the Eras tour last night.

And the show itself? Well, look away now if you don’t like setlist spoilers.

Melbourne won the lottery of Swift’s Surprise Song section of the Eras show, with the singer bringing out rare cuts, Red (on guitar) and the live debut of You’re Losing Me (played on the piano). Swift played the devastating ten-minute version of All Too Well, shortened and extended versions of willow, Fearless, Wildest Dreams, Karma and many more.

Amid her ginormous 45-song setlist, Taylor Swift even had time for an announcement that would send fans into a tailspin, announcing The Bolter, the new edition of her upcoming album, The Tortured Poets Department, that features an exclusive bonus track. You can find out more about that here.

Check out Taylor Swift’s first setlist (via setlist.fm) on her 2024 Australian tour below.

Taylor Swift @ MCG, Melbourne (Naarm) on Friday, 16 August 2024

Setlist:

Intro (Song played from tape) (Fearless, End Game, Speak Now, evermore, gold rush, Red, Lavender Haze, Lover, Bejeweled elements)

Lover

1.        Miss Americana & The Heartbreak Prince (shortened)

2.        Cruel Summer (extended outro)

3.        The Man (spoken intro)

4.        You Need to Calm Down (shortened)

5.        Lover (spoken intro)

6.        The Archer (extended outro)

Fearless

7.        Fearless (shortened)

8.        You Belong With Me

9.        Love Story

evermore

10.   'tis the damn season (shortened)

11.   Willow (extended)

12.   Marjorie (shortened)

13.   champagne problems (spoken intro)

14.   tolerate it (shortened)

reputation

15.   ...Ready for It?

16.   Delicate

17.   Don't Blame Me (shortened)

18.   Look What You Made Me Do (extended outro)

Speak Now

19.   Enchanted (shortened)

20.   Long Live (extended outro)

Red

Red – Intro (played from tape) (contains elements of State of Grace, Holy Ground and Red)

21.   22

22.   We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together

23.   I Knew You Were Trouble (shortened)

24.   All Too Well (10 Minute Version; spoken intro)

folklore

Seven (played from tape) (spoken poem; contains elements of Wildest Dreams)

25.   the 1

26.   betty (spoken intro)

27.   the last great american dynasty

28.   august

29.   illicit affairs (shortened)

30.   my tears ricochet

31.   cardigan

1989

32.   Style (shortened)

33.   Blank Space

34.   Shake It Off

35.   Wildest Dreams (shortened)

36.   Bad Blood (shortened)

Surprise Songs

37.   Red (on guitar)

38.   You're Losing Me (live debut; on piano)

Midnights

39.   Lavender Haze

40.   Anti‐Hero

41.   Midnight Rain

42.   Vigilante Shit

43.   Bejeweled

44.   Mastermind

45.   Karma (extended outro)

You can read The Music’s review of Taylor Swift’s first show on the Australian leg of the Eras tour here.