Taylor Swift

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Taylor Swift, who rarely gives interviews, gave a rare insight into her relationship over two hours on the New Heights podcast

Inside Business podcast with Ciarán Hancock

Fans have shelled out hundreds to see the band, while gig tourists will swell the local economy this weekend

Singer-songwriter’s website said copies of the album would be sent out by October 13th

‘Concerts are the best night out you can have as a young person in Ireland,’ says one music fan, who spent €1,500 on tickets last year

McRedmond’s credo is: ‘All businesses are dying; you have to find the new thing’. He has lived that philosophy at State-owned postal service, whose core business has shifted from letters to parcels and, increasingly, financial services

Company will sell 2.5m tickets in 2025, says MD Denis Desmond

Six is less the staging of a traditional historical musical than an indoctrination into the cult of the superfan

If you suffer from friggatriskaidekaphobia, pretty much everything

Swift originally lost the rights in 2019 when her first label, Big Machine, sold them to Scooter Braun

Veteran musician’s fiery speeches trigger angry insults from US president

Swifties believe the singer is ready to drop her next record – but they could be just clowning

Revenue boosted by Taylor Swift concerts

From Taylor Swift to millionaire CEOs, luxury travel agency founder Siobhan Byrne caters to the desires of the rich and famous who want bespoke Irish holidays

Radio: The former taoiseach joins former tánaiste Simon Coveney to analyse the turmoil surrounding Donald Trump’s tariffs

‘I think more women want a soft life, a beautiful life, than feeling all this pressure to do all these things,’ says cofounder Brittany Hugoboom

Michael Mary Murphy’s new book hails the managers who have steered U2, Hozier and The Beatles to the top of the charts

As the world gets worse around us, and authoritarians seek cover for their activities, the art of the future will happen on your phone

Money is paid to rightsholders, rather than directly to artists, and is based on their percentage of total streams over the year

Armed with an acoustic guitar and her breathy vocals, Abrams proves herself worthy of star status

Chalamet’s speech is a tonic to the jaded insouciance, the fear of being seen as a ‘try hard’, that has taken over

Planet Business: Taylor Swift’s IFPI triumph, Mira Murati’s new AI venture and tourism slogans gone awry

The U2 frontman was an early cheerleader for his fellow Irish band, who are back on tour to mark 40 years together. But his acceptance of a medal from Joe Biden sent the wrong signal, they say

Beyoncé secures album of the year award for Cowboy Carter after previously missing out four times

& Juliet creator David West Read’s TV credits include Schitt’s Creek but his passion for theatre propelled him to rewrite a Shakespeare classic featuring the music of one of pop’s top hit makers

Claudia Winkleman’s smash reality show is an effective analogy for the Sisyphean pointlessness of existence. But the contestants can’t say that, obviously

Blistering punk-pop duo Lambrini Girls recorded debut album last year, when the world seemed to be at peak insanity. But the spiral continues, they say

Progressive principles held an iron grip on big-budget US entertainment in Donald Trump’s first term as US president. Did that serve those principles well?

U2′s Sphere in Las Vegas shows win out in ‘top 300 worldwide concert grosses’, according to Pollstar data

The conservative US journalist’s diatribe might reek of woke-gone-mad overreach, but no, she does indeed describe the twist ending accurately

If the 2024 election result marked stability, safety and conservatism, the biggest gig of the year underscored that same middle-brow innocuousness

Support for the podcast stars, whose guests include Marty Morrissey, Nathan Carter and Dustin the Turkey, is fanatical

Inside Business podcast with Ciarán Hancock

Plus: How many Spotify streams did Taylor Swift accrue this year?

No surprises as the singer tops the streamer’s global charts after a savvy release strategy for her April album

Christmas baubles go kitsch with a capital K this year, with a focus on fun and personality. Here’s our pick of the best

Your Spotify Unwrapped for 2024 is due: Best to fess up to the Sabrina Carpenter

Those of us who admire Jonathan Swift, the contrary old weed, were the original Swifties

Ignore the right-wing blowhards: awards ceremonies are rarely as politically partisan as they like to pretend