While she's immersed in promotional appearances for her new album, "Red," Taylor Swift is also hatching plans for the concert tour that will begin March 13 in Omaha, Neb. And she says that her fans -- who have purchased 1.55 million copies of "Red" since its October 22 release, according to Nielsen SoundScan -- will have everything to do with what she plays.
"Of course, you know the tour will be a big representation of this record," Swift tells Billboard. "I'm so excited to see what songs the fans like the most and which ones jump to the forefront, because that's the first step. We always see which songs are really the passionate songs and the ones the fans are freaking out over the most, and those are the ones that are definitely in the set list. I can't wait for that."
Tickets begin going on sale Nov. 16 for Swift's 58-date trek, which will be stopping at mostly arenas and nine stadiums on the tour and is currently announced through Sept. 21 with British troubadour Ed Sheeran, who guests on the "Red" track "Everything Has Changed," as the opening act. And Swift says she's planning a production that will fit the scale of the places she's playing.
"I like for it to be big -- as big as possible," Swift explains. "If we can make a show that dazzles people more than the last tour, then I'll have done my job in the right way. I just want to be able, in this economy, to make a show that for fans is definitely a guarantee that they will be entertained enough to warrant them leaving their house, spending their evening with me, parking their car, waiting in line, maybe buy a T-shirt. I want them to be so happy that they decided to spend their time with me -- I think that's my biggest objective. And the element of surprise is still really important in a concert and showing scenes and images and visuals that are magical. I really like to take people to a different world and change things up constantly, never showing them too much of the same thing too many times in a row."
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