Every Surprise Song Performed On Taylor Swift's Eras Tour So Far
12 November 2024, 09:04
By Katie Louise Smith
What surprise songs did Taylor Swift perform on The Eras Tour? Here's the full list. (Updated live during every show)
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Taylor Swift's The Eras Tour is in full swing, and just as fans had hoped, Taylor has confirmed that she will be performing surprise songs on every single night of the tour.
If you've been a fan of Taylor for a while, you'll know that she always includes a surprise song or two in her tour set lists. The tradition goes all the way back to the Speak Now World Tour, where she included the surprise covers she performed during that era.
With the tour now officially underway, the surprise songs are back, back, back again! There are 45 songs in the setlist already, which means she's got well over 200 songs (!!) to choose from for the surprise slots.
Initially, Taylor told fans that she will only play each surprise song once, unless she messes it up. But she has now confirmed that she has ended that rule, and she will play whatever she wants, however many times she wants!
So, what surprise songs has Taylor Swift already performed on The Eras Tour and what can fans expect for the rest of the dates? Here's the full list. (We'll update this article live, during each show.)
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Taylor will be playing two surprise acoustic songs per show. After 66 dates in 2023, Taylor ended up playing an extra 124 songs, not including repeats or songs that weren't her own.
At the end of her 2023 Eras Tour shows, Taylor confirmed that the full list of surprise songs will be completely reset. In February 2024, she began adding mashups to the acoustic section. She has also confirmed that she will now completely scrap the 'only playing it once' rule, and will repeat songs if she feels like it. Here's the full list so far...
2024 Eras Tour surprise songs:
Tokyo, Japan (Feb 7) - 'Dear Reader' and 'Holy Ground'
Tokyo, Japan (Feb 8) - 'Eyes Open' and 'Electric Touch'
Tokyo, Japan (Feb 9) - 'Superman' and 'The Outside'
Tokyo, Japan (Feb 10) - 'Come In With The Rain' and 'You're On Your Own, Kid'
Melbourne, Australia (Feb 16) - 'Red' and 'You're Losing Me'
Melbourne, Australia (Feb 17) - 'Getaway Car/August/The Other Side of the Door' and 'this is me trying'
Melbourne, Australia (Feb 18) - 'Come Back...Be Here/Daylight' and 'Teardrops On My Guitar'
Sydney, Australia (Feb 23) - 'How You Get The Girl' and 'White Horse/Coney Island' with Sabrina Carpenter
Sydney, Australia (Feb 24) - 'Should've Said No/You're Not Sorry' and 'New Year's Day/Peace'
Sydney, Australia (Feb 25) - 'Is It Over Now?/I Wish You Would' and 'Haunted/Exile'
Sydney, Australia (Feb 26) - 'Would've Could've Should've/Ivy' and 'Forever & Always/Maroon'
Singapore, SG (Mar 2) – 'Mine/Starlight' and 'I Don't Wanna Live Forever/Dress'
Singapore, SG (Mar 3) – 'Long Story Short/The Story of Us' and 'Clean/Evermore'
Singapore, SG (Mar 4) – 'Foolish One/Tell Me Why' and 'This Love/Call It What You Want'
Singapore, SG (Mar 7) – 'Death By A Thousand Cuts/Babe' and 'Fifteen/You're On Your Own, Kid'
Warsaw, Poland (Aug 2) - 'I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)/I Can See You' and 'Red/Maroon'
Warsaw, Poland (Aug 3) - 'Today Was A Fairytale/I Think He Knows' and 'The Black Dog/Exile'
Vienna, Austria (Aug 8) - [SHOW CANCELLED]
Vienna, Austria (Aug 9) - [SHOW CANCELLED]
Vienna, Austria (Aug 10) - [SHOW CANCELLED]
London, UK (Aug 15) - 'Everything Has Changed/End Game/Thinking Out Loud (all with Ed Sheeran)' and 'King Of My Heart/The Alchemy'
London, UK (Aug 16) - 'London Boy' and 'Dear John/Sad Beautiful Tragic'
London, UK (Aug 17) - 'I Did Something Bad' and 'My Boy Only Breaks His Favourite Toys/Coney Island'
London, UK (Aug 19) - 'Long Live/Change' and 'The Archer/You're On Your Own, Kid'
London, UK (Aug 20) - 'Death By A Thousand Cuts/Getaway Car' (with Jack Antonoff) and 'So Long, London'
Miami, FL (Night 1 - Oct 18) - 'Tim McGraw/Timeless' and 'this is me trying/Daylight'
Miami, FL (Night 2 - Oct 19) - 'Should've Said No/I Did Something Bad' and 'loml/White Horse'
Miami, FL (Night 3 - Oct 20) - 'Out Of The Woods/All You Had To Do Was Stay' and 'mirrorball/Guilty As Sin?'
New Orleans, LA (Night 1 - Oct 25) – 'Our Song/Call It What You Want' and 'The Black Dog/Haunted'
New Orleans, LA (Night 2 - Oct 26) – 'Espresso/Is It Over Now?/Please Please Please' with Sabrina Carpenter and 'Hits Different/Welcome to New York'
New Orleans, LA (Night 3 - Oct 27) – 'Afterglow/Dress' and 'How You Get The Girl/Clean'
Indianapolis, IN (Night 1 - Nov 1) - 'The Albatross/Holy Ground' and 'Cold As You/exile'
Indianapolis, IN (Night 2 - Nov 2) - 'The Prophecy/This Love' and 'Maroon/cowboy like me'
Indianapolis, IN (Night 3 - Nov 3) - 'Cornelia Street/The Bolter' and 'Death By Thousand Cuts/The Great War'
Toronto, Canada (Night 1 - Nov 14) – TBC
Toronto, Canada (Night 2 - Nov 15) – TBC
Toronto, Canada (Night 3 - Nov 16) – TBC
As of November 12th, Taylor has performed 23 from 'The Tortured Poets Department', 20 from 'Red (Taylor's Version)', 17 from '1989', 18 from 'Speak Now (Taylor's Version)', 16 from 'Fearless (Taylor's Version)', 14 from 'Midnights', 13 from 'evermore', 11 from 'folklore', 12 from 'Lover', 9 from 'Reputation' and 8 from 'Taylor Swift'.
Plus 'I Don't Wanna Live Forever' (twice), 'Crazier', 'This Is What You Came For', 'Carolina', her song 'us' with Gracie Abrams, Ed Sheeran's 'Thinking Out Loud' with Ed, Sabrina Carpenter's 'Espresso' and 'Please Please Please'.
So far, at the 2024 shows, Taylor has performed 170 different songs.
2023 Eras Tour surprise songs:
Glendale, AZ (March 17) - ‘mirrorball’ and 'Tim McGraw'
Glendale, AZ (March 18) - ‘State of Grace’ and ‘this is me trying’
Las Vegas, NV (March 24) - 'Our Song' and 'Snow on the Beach'
Las Vegas, NV (March 25) - 'cowboy like me' (with Marcus Mumford) and 'White Horse'
Arlington, TX (March 31) - 'Sad Beautiful Tragic' and 'Ours'
Arlington, TX (April 1) - 'Death By a Thousand Cuts' and 'Clean'
Arlington, TX (April 2) - 'Jump Then Fall' and 'The Lucky One'
Tampa, FL (April 13) - 'Speak Now' and 'Treacherous'
Tampa, FL (April 14) - 'The Great War' (with Aaron Dessner) and 'You're On Your Own, Kid'
Philadelphia, PA (May 12) - 'gold rush' and 'Come Back... Be Here'
Philadelphia, PA (May 13) - 'Forever & Always' and 'This Love'
Philadelphia, PA (May 14) - 'Hey Stephen' and 'The Best Day'
Foxborough, MA (May 19) - 'Should've Said No' and 'Better Man'
Foxborough, MA (May 20) - 'Question...?' and 'Invisible'
Foxborough, MA (May 21) - 'I Think He Knows' and 'Red'
East Rutherford, NJ (May 26) - 'Getaway Car' (with Jack Antonoff) and 'Maroon'
East Rutherford, NJ (May 27) - 'Holy Ground' and 'False God'
East Rutherford, NJ (May 28) - 'Welcome To New York' and 'Clean'
Chicago, IL (Jun 2) – 'I Wish You Would' and 'the lakes'
Chicago, IL (Jun 3) – 'You All Over Me' (with Maren Morris) and 'I Don't Wanna Live Forever'
Chicago, IL (Jun 4) – 'Hits Different' and 'The Moment I Knew'
Detroit, MI (Jun 9) – 'Haunted' and 'I Almost Do'
Detroit, MI (Jun 10) – 'All You Had To Do Was Stay' and 'Breathe'
Pittsburgh, PA (June 16) – 'Mr. Perfectly Fine' and 'The Last Time'
Pittsburgh, PA (June 17) – 'seven' (with Aaron Dessner) and 'The Story of Us'
Minneapolis, MN (June 23) – 'Paper Rings' and 'If This Was A Movie'
Minneapolis, MN (June 24) – 'Dear John' and 'Daylight'
Cincinnati, OH (June 30) – 'I'm Only Me When I'm With You' and 'evermore'
Cincinnati, OH (July 1) – 'ivy' (with Aaron Dessner), 'I miss you, I’m sorry' (with Gracie Abrams) and 'Call It What You Want'
Kansas City, MO (July 7) – 'Never Grow Up' and 'When Emma Falls in Love'
Kansas City, MO (July 8) – 'Last Kiss' and 'dorothea'
Denver, CO (July 14) - 'Picture To Burn' and 'Timeless'
Denver, CO (July 15) - 'Starlight' and 'Back To December'
Seattle, WA (July 22) - 'This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things' and 'Everything Has Changed'
Seattle, WA (July 23) - 'Message In A Bottle' and 'Tied Together With A Smile'
Santa Clara, CA (July 28) - 'right where you left me' (with Aaron Dessner) and 'Castles Crumbling'
Santa Clara, CA (July 29) - 'Stay Stay Stay' and 'All of the Girls You've Loved Before'
Los Angeles, CA (Aug 3) – 'I Can See You' and Maroon'
Los Angeles, CA (Aug 4) – 'Our Song' and 'You Are In Love'
Los Angeles, CA (Aug 5) – 'Death By A Thousand Cuts' and 'You're On Your Own, Kid'
Los Angeles, CA (Aug 7) – 'Dress' and 'exile'
Los Angeles, CA (Aug 8) – 'I Know Places' and 'King of My Heart'
Los Angeles, CA (Aug 9) – 'New Romantics' and 'New Year's Day'
Mexico City, Mexico (Aug 24) - 'I Forgot That You Existed' and 'Sweet Nothing'
Mexico City, Mexico (Aug 25) - 'Tell Me Why' and 'Snow on the Beach'
Mexico City, Mexico (Aug 26) - 'Cornelia Street' and 'You're On Your Own, Kid'
Mexico City, Mexico (Aug 27) - 'Afterglow' and 'Maroon'
Buenos Aires, Argentina (Nov 9) – 'The Very First Night' and 'Labyrinth'
Buenos Aires, Argentina (Nov 11) – 'Is It Over Now?/Out of the Woods' and 'End Game'
Buenos Aires, Argentina (Nov 12) – 'Better Than Revenge' and '"Slut!"'
Rio De Janeiro, Brazil (Nov 17) – 'Stay Beautiful' and 'Suburban Legends'
Rio De Janeiro, Brazil (Nov 19) – 'Dancing With Our Hands Tied' and 'Bigger Than The Whole Sky'
Rio De Janeiro, Brazil (Nov 20) – 'ME!' and 'So It Goes...'
São Paulo, Brazil (Nov 24) – 'Now That We Don't Talk' and 'Innocent'
São Paulo, Brazil (Nov 25) – 'Safe & Sound' and 'Untouchable'
São Paulo, Brazil (Nov 26) – 'Say Don't Go' and 'it's time to go'
In 2023, Taylor played an additional 124 songs from her own discography as surprise songs. That includes 19 from Red (Taylor's Version), 17 from Speak Now (Taylor's Version), 16 from 1989 (Taylor's Version), 15 from Fearless (Taylor's Version), 11 from Midnights, 11 from Taylor Swift, 10 from Reputation, 10 from Lover, 8 from evermore and 6 from folklore.
Plus one soundtrack song ('I Don't Wanna Live Forever) and one extra song that's not her own ('I miss you, I'm sorry' with Gracie Abrams).
The Eras Tour concert film was recorded on August 3rd, 4th and 5th and all six surprise songs she performed at those shows will be included in The Eras Tour (Taylor's Version) on Disney+.
Taylor Swift announces The Eras Tour concert film with trailer
What surprise songs has Taylor Swift not played yet?
With Taylor performing at least two surprise songs a night, it's pretty much a given that she will perform the wide majority of her catalogue before she finishes the entire tour.
Every acoustic section is different, but fans heading to the final leg of the Eras Tour will likely end up hearing some repeats as Taylor now only has a handful of songs that have not yet been played on this particular tour. A few of them are incredibly emotional and personal so she may not even perform them at all.
Here's all the songs that Taylor Swift has not yet performed live on the Eras Tour:
Taylor Swift: [All songs from Taylor Swift have now been performed.]
Speak Now (Taylor's Version):[All songs from Speak Now (Taylor's Version) have been performed.]
Red (Taylor's Version): 'Girl At Home', 'Ronan', 'Forever Winter'
1989 (Taylor's Version): [All songs from 1989 (Taylor's Version) have now been performed.]
Reputation: [All songs from Reputation have now been performed.]
Lover: 'Soon You’ll Get Better'
Folklore: [All songs from Folklore have now been performed.]
Evermore: [All songs from Evermore have now been performed.]
Midnights: [All songs from Midnights have now been performed.]
The Tortured Poets Department: 'Cassandra'
Taylor performed 'Florida!!!' with Florence Welch during London Night 8 and all three shows in Miami but it was performed during the main setlist, not as a surprise song. It could still pop up later down the line during the acoustic section.
Taylor has also not yet performed 'Tolerate It' as a surprise song after removing it from the official setlist.
Alongside those listed album tracks, there's also several standalone and soundtrack songs that Taylor could add into the mix: 'Only The Young', 'I Heart?', 'Beautiful Eyes', 'Beautiful Ghosts'... And of course, 'Macavity' and 'Christmas Tree Farm'. (You never know!)
There's also the small possibility that she could potentially perform the songs she's featured on, like she did with Gracie Abrams on London Night 3, maybe even with special guests: 'The Joker and the Queen', 'Two Is Better Than One', 'Renegade', 'Both of Us', 'Gasoline', 'Birch', 'Highway Don’t Care' and 'The Alcott'.
It's highly unlikely that Taylor will perform 'Soon You'll Get Better' as a surprise song. Taylor previously said that she can't perform the song live because of how difficult it is for her to "emotionally deal" with the meaning behind it, which many assume is about her mother's cancer diagnosis. She's performed it once, in a segment for Global Citizen in 2020, but is yet to sing it in front of an audience.
What surprise songs will Taylor Swift perform again?
At the start of the The Eras Tour, Taylor revealed that she had two rules when it comes to playing surprise songs more than once. Rule 1: If she messed up, she's allowed to play it again. Rule 2: Midnights songs are exempt and she can play them "however many times I want..."
However, in February 2024, she confirmed that that rule is no longer in place. She will play whatever songs she wants, however many times she wants.
So, if you're going to one of the final shows in Vancouver and you're hoping to hear 'You're On Your Own, Kid'? It's now a strong possibility.
Here's a list of all the songs Taylor has performed multiple times on the Eras Tour so far:
'You're On Your Own, Kid' (Played 10 times)
'Maroon' (Played 9 times)
‘Out of the Woods’ (Played 6 times)
'Clean' (Played 6 times)
'Death By A Thousand Cuts' (Played 6 times)
'Red' (Played 5 times)
'Getaway Car' (Played 5 times)
'Is It Over Now?' (Played 5 times)
'Come Back...Be Here' (Played 4 times)
'exile' (Played 4 times)
'Everything Has Changed' (Played 4 times)
'Daylight' (Played 4 times)
'this is me trying' (Played 4 times)
'mirrorball' (Played 4 times)
'How You Get The Girl' (Played 4 times)
'Dress' (Played 4 times)
'Our Song' (Played 4 times)
'Haunted' (Played 4 times)
'Call It What You Want' (Played 4 times)
'This Love’ (Played 4 times)
'Cowboy Like Me' (Played 4 times)
'The Other Side of the Door' (Played 3 times)
'Sparks Fly' (Played 3 times)
'Snow On The Beach' (Played 3 times)
'Fifteen' (Played 3 times)
'Would've, Could've Should've' (Played 3 times)
'Gold Rush' (Played 3 times)
'Holy Ground' (Played 3 times)
'"Slut!"' (Played 3 times)
'False God' (Played 3 times)
'Hey Stephen' (Played 3 times)
'Teardrops On My Guitar' (Played 3 times)
'You Are In Love' (Played 3 times)
'Ivy' (Played 3 times)
'I Don't Wanna Live Forever' (Played 3 times)
'New Year's Day' (Played 3 times)
'I Can See You' (Played 3 times)
'I Think He Knows' (Played 3 times)
'King of my Heart' (Played 3 times)
'Sad Beautiful Tragic' (Played 3 times)
'Tim McGraw' (Played 3 times)
'Should've Said No' (Played 3 times)
'White Horse' (Played 3 times)
'loml' (Played 3 times)
'All You Had To Do Was Stay' (Played 3 times)
'Guilty As Sin?' (Played 3 times)
'Hits Different' (Played 3 times)
'Welcome To New York' (Played 3 times)
'The Black Dog' (Played 3 times)
'Cornelia Street' (Played 3 times)
'The Great War' (Played 3 times)
Here's all the surprise songs that Taylor has played twice so far:
'Tell Me Why', 'Forever & Always', 'You're Not Sorry', 'Jump Then Fall', 'Untouchable', 'Today Was A Fairytale', 'Mr. Perfectly Fine', 'Mine', 'Speak Now', 'Dear John', 'The Story of Us', 'Last Kiss', 'Long Live', 'Ours', 'I Can See You', 'Timeless', 'State of Grace', 'Treacherous', 'Begin Again', 'Stay Stay Stay', 'Starlight', 'The Moment I Knew', 'I Almost Do', 'The Last Time', 'Message In A Bottle', 'I Wish You Would', 'I Know Places', 'Wonderland', 'New Romantics', 'Say Don't Go', 'Now That We Don't Talk', 'Suburban Legends', 'End Game', 'Gorgeous', 'Dancing With Our Hands Tied', 'I Did Something Bad, 'This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things', 'I Forgot That You Existed', 'Paper Rings', 'Afterglow', 'All of the Girls You Loved Before', 'the lakes', 'Long Story Short', 'Dorothea', 'Coney Island', 'Evermore', 'Right Where You Left Me', 'Question...?', 'Labyrinth', 'Sweet Nothing', 'Paris', 'High Infidelity', 'Dear Reader', 'You're Losing Me', 'Fresh Out The Slammer', 'I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)', 'imgonnagetyouback', 'Clara Bow', 'The Alchemy', 'The Bolter', 'The Prophecy'
Taylor also performed 'No Body, No Crime' with HAIM on the nights they supported the show. She later played it as a surprise song in Liverpool on June 15th.
Taylor performed 'Nothing New' with Phoebe Bridgers on the nights Phoebe appears as a support act. She later played it as a surprise song in Hamburg on July 24th.
What surprise songs are in Taylor Swift's Eras Tour movie?
The Eras Tour concert film was filmed on August 3rd, 4th and 5th in Los Angeles, CA. Taylor performed six additional surprise songs, all of which were recorded for the film. In the cinema and digital releases, 'Our Song' and 'You're On Your Own, Kid' were included as the two surprise songs.
In the (Taylor's Version) edition that will begin streaming on Disney+ on March 15th, Taylor confirmed that all six songs that she performed during those shows will be included. Here's the full list: