The presale for Taylor Swift’s “The Eras Tour” has formally damaged Ticketmaster. The singer’s sixth live performance tour—her first since 2018—has seen elevated demand coming off the record-breaking launch of her album Midnights.

Just just a few weeks in the past, singer-songwriter Taylor Swift formally introduced her upcoming live performance tour in assist of her total portfolio of music in addition to her newly launched album Midnights. With an anticipated excessive demand for tickets, savvy Swifties have been in a position to enroll in a presale lottery previous to tickets changing into out there to most people. Lucky followers would obtain a particular code that may enable them to entry tickets earlier than they went on sale to the remainder of the world. Presale formally started this morning at 10 a.m. EST, and only a few brief moments later, Ticketmaster was down for the rely.

The web site DownDetector acquired a spike in experiences previous to the ten a.m. presale, with one other spike starting about 20 minutes after tickets turned out there. Ticketmaster didn’t instantly reply to Gizmodo’s request for touch upon the outage.

“If you received a code to the TaylorSwiftTix Presale, please login and access the queue through the link you received via text rather than entering through the Ticketmaster homepage,” the corporate advised on Twitter previous to the sale. “This will ensure an optimal shopping experience.”

At the time of writing this text, I’m unable to entry the Ticketmaster homepage, being greeted as a substitute with a 503 error. Look what you made her do.

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Swift’s final tour—2018’s Reputation Stadium Tour—noticed 53 sold-out reveals internationally, and The Eras Tour has 52 reveals scheduled within the U.S. alone. Swifties throughout TikTok, Twitter, and Instagram have been sharing ideas and greatest practices on securing tickets main as much as immediately’s presale. If the Midnights’ launch was any indication, this may seemingly be Swift’s greatest tour up to now, which Swift described as a “journey through all of my musical eras of my career.”

With that, Swift has quite a lot of floor to cowl on The Eras Tour. Since her final tour, the singer has launched 4 unique studio albums—Lover, folklore, evermore, and Midnights— and two re-recorded albums—Fearless (Taylor’s Version) and Red (Taylor’s Version). Midnights, her most up-to-date endeavor, has bought over 1 million copies, whereas ten of the album’s tracks occupied all top ten spots on the Billboard Hot 100, making Swift the primary artist to take action.