Taylor Swift concerts: All the times she’s cancelled shows in her career

When it comes to performing for fans, Taylor Swift is there rain, hail or shine.

The singer has played through stormy weather warnings, illness and a ‘broken heart’.

This all makes the recent news of her Austrian shows being cancelled such a shock.

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Swift, 34, was set to play three shows in Vienna this week before organisers announced all the dates were cancelled following an apparent terror threat.

“With confirmation from government officials of a planned terrorist attack at Ernst Happel Stadium, we have no choice but to cancel the three scheduled shows for everyone’s safety,” event organiser Barracuda Music confirmed to Instagram.

Across her nearly two-decades-long career in music, Swift has only ever really cancelled a show once for reasons similarly out of her control.

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While touring her album Red in 2014, the Cruel Summer singer was forced to cancel a show in Bangkok schedule for June 9 following a military coup.

The show didn’t go ahead due to the political unrest in the country at the time. 

“I’m sending my love to the fans in Thailand,” Swift wrote to X (formerly Twitter).

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“I’m so sad about the concert being canceled,” she admitted to her fans.

A few years later in 2020, Swift had to fully cancel her Lover Fest tour for her 2019 album Lover due to the global COVID-19 pandemic after it was initially postponed.

Swift was scheduled to play four shows in the US as well as several international festival dates in Germany, France and Belgium amongst other countries.

“It’s not my favorite thing in the world to have to tell you news I’m sad about,” she announced the “unprecedented” reason for cancelling to social media in February 2021.

“I’m so disappointed that I won’t be able to see you in person as soon as I wanted to.”

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Across her many years performing, Swift has postponed showed on rare occasions, but has almost always taken to the stage at a later date.

Speaking to Nova’s Smallzy in 2018 after her Sydney Reputation Stadium Tour show was delayed due to an electrical storm, the singer shared her love for playing in the rain.

“I’m not going to cancel a show no matter what, unless physically they tell me that none of us can be on stage,” she told the radio host.

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Swift had to postpone her second Eras Tour show in Brazil in November 2023 due to ‘extreme temperatures’ and a fan’s death on the first night in Rio de Janeiro.

“The safety and well-being of my fans, fellow performers, and crew has to and always will come first,” she wrote in an Instagram story. The show went ahead on a later date.

One of the only other times she’s postponed shows was due to an illness on the Speak Now World Tour back in 2011.

The pop star had bronchitis and rescheduled three of her shows in North Carolina and Georgia at her doctor’s advice.

“I would never cancel if I thought I was physically able to perform these shows,” she wrote in a statement. She returned to perform the postponed dates a few months later.

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