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Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour: Every Surprise Song She’s Played So Far
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- Taylor Swift Masterfully Reinvents the Eras Tour for Its European Version: See All the Changes
Taylor Swift Masterfully Reinvents the Eras Tour for Its European Version: See All the Changes
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- Taylor Swift Plays ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ Songs Live for the First Time at Paris Eras Tour Show
Taylor Swift Plays ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ Songs Live for the First Time at Paris Eras Tour Show
‘Taylor Swift vs. Scooter Braun’ Docuseries Coming to Discovery+ in U.K.
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- Taylor Swift’s ‘Tortured Poets’ Racks Up 439,000 Units in Week 2, the Best Second Week for Any Album Since 2015
Taylor Swift’s ‘Tortured Poets’ Racks Up 439,000 Units in Week 2, the Best Second Week for Any Album Since 2015
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- Charlie Puth Finally Responds to Taylor Swift’s ‘Tortured Poets Department’ Mention With New Song ‘Hero’: ‘Thank You for Your Support… You Know Who You Are’
Charlie Puth Finally Responds to Taylor Swift’s ‘Tortured Poets Department’ Mention With New Song ‘Hero’: ‘Thank You for Your Support… You Know Who You Are’
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- How ‘The Fall Guy’ Landed Taylor Swift and Kiss for its Soundtrack — and the Alanis Morissette Karaoke Moment That Didn’t Make the Final Cut
How ‘The Fall Guy’ Landed Taylor Swift and Kiss for its Soundtrack — and the Alanis Morissette Karaoke Moment That Didn’t Make the Final Cut
Taylor Swift’s 75 Best Songs, Ranked
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- Taylor Swift Breaks Hot 100 Records With ‘The Tortured Poets Department,’ Becoming the First Artist With Top 14 Songs
Taylor Swift Breaks Hot 100 Records With ‘The Tortured Poets Department,’ Becoming the First Artist With Top 14 Songs
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- Taylor Swift Debuts With 2.61 Million Units for ‘The Tortured Poets Department,’ the Best Number for Any Album in Nine Years
Taylor Swift Debuts With 2.61 Million Units for ‘The Tortured Poets Department,’ the Best Number for Any Album in Nine Years
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- Matty Healy Hasn’t ‘Really Listened to Much’ of Taylor Swift’s ‘Tortured Poets’ Album, ‘but I’m Sure It’s Good’
Matty Healy Hasn’t ‘Really Listened to Much’ of Taylor Swift’s ‘Tortured Poets’ Album, ‘but I’m Sure It’s Good’
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- Taylor Swift’s ‘Tortured Poets’ Becomes First Album to Get One Billion Streams on Spotify in a Single Week
Taylor Swift’s ‘Tortured Poets’ Becomes First Album to Get One Billion Streams on Spotify in a Single Week
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- ‘Tortured Poets Department’ Breaks Record for Weekly Vinyl Sales in Just Three Days, as Taylor Swift Sells 700,000 LPs Over a Weekend
‘Tortured Poets Department’ Breaks Record for Weekly Vinyl Sales in Just Three Days, as Taylor Swift Sells 700,000 LPs Over a Weekend
Taylor Swift fans dancing and jumping created last year’s “Swift quakes”
When mega pop star Taylor Swift gave a series of concerts last August at the SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles, regional seismic network stations recorded unique harmonic vibrations known as "concert tremor." A similar "Swift quake" had occurred the month before in Seattle, prompting scientists from the California Institute of Technology and UCLA to take a closer look at seismic data collected during Swift's LA concert.
The researchers concluded that the vibrations were largely generated by crowd motion as "Swifties" jumped and danced enthusiastically to the music. They described their findings in a new paper published in the journal Seismological Research Letters. The authors contend that gaining a better understanding of atypical seismic signals like those generated by the Swift concert could improve the analysis of seismic signals in the future, as well as bolster emerging applications like using signals from train noise for seismic interferometry.
Concert tremor consists of low-frequency signals of extended duration with harmonic frequency peaks between 1 and 10 Hz, similar to the signals generated by volcanoes or trains. There has been considerable debate about the source of these low-frequency concert tremor signals: Are they produced by the synchronized movement of the crowd or by the sound systems or instruments coupled to the stage? Several prior studies of stadium concerts have argued for the former hypothesis, while a 2015 study found that a chanting crowd at a football game produced similar harmonic seismic tremors. However, a 2008 study concluded that such signals generated during an outdoor electronic dance music festival came from the sound system vibrating to the musical beat.