Taylor Swift is being honored for her record-breaking Eras Tour.
On Monday, March 17, the 14-time Grammy winner received the Tour of the Century Award at the 2025 iHeartRadio Music Awards, held at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.
âI really canât tell you how much this means to me because this, on behalf of my tour mates, all my fellow performers, my band, everyone who toured with us, our crew⌠this is actually the two-year anniversary of the first show of the Eras Tour, so Iâve been doing a lot of processing since Iâve been off the road these last few months,â Swift, 35, said in her virtual acceptance speech.
âPeople often say that sometimes the greatest challenges in life end up being something youâre so proud of or end up being the most gratifying feeling in the end, if you can rise to the occasion,â she continued. âAnd this tour was absolutely the most challenging thing Iâve ever done in my life. Itâs a 3.5 hour show, more shows than Iâve ever done on tour.â
The âDown Badâ songstress added that she thinks about the tour âconstantlyâ â and what got her through was her âfans.â
âTo the fans, you made these songs from the last couple decades into what they became so that we could do a 3.5 hour setlist. You had the passion and generosity to care about traveling to see us on tour in all these places all over the world. It blows my mind. Iâm never going to stop being grateful for it. And I appreciate this more than you know.â
After she delivered her speech, the awards show aired an exclusive performance of âMirrorballâ from opening night of the Eras Tour in Glendale, Ariz. in March 2023.
The Eras Tour kicked off on March 17, 2023 â two years to the date of the 2025 award show. Swift took her final bow of the countries-spanning tour in December 2024 in Vancouver.
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During the penultimate concert, Swift told her fans how much she appreciated them joining her on her journey. âThis is the most fun, joyful, exciting, intense, powerful and wonderful tour I have ever done, and thatâs all because of the way that you have treated it,â Swift said, per a video shared on X.
âThereâs a reason why this is my longest tour Iâve ever done. Iâve never played this many shows on a tour before, and itâs just cause I really never wanted it to end, because you guys have made it into such a wonderful experience for all of us on stage,â she added.
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âYouâve got all your traditions that youâve created. Like, I wrote one line in a song that mentions âmake the friendship bracelets,â and I show up to the first show of the Eras Tour, and you guys made friendship bracelets, your trading friendship bracelets, youâre making friends, and now, I feel like, friendship bracelets, youâve kinda made that idea synonymous with the Eras Tour.â
âThatâs a pretty wild thing you can do â and thatâs just one of the things,â concluded Swift.
Swift was nominated for 10 awards at the 2025 iHeartRadio Music Awards, tying with Morgan Wallen for the most nominations this year.
Swiftâs nods include pop artist of the year, artist of the year, best collaboration, best music video and best lyrics with Post Malone for âFortnightâ and favorite surprise guest (for bringing out boyfriend Travis Kelce at the Eras Tour during a June concert in London).
She is also being recognized for favorite tour tradition (one nod for the â22â hat and one nod for the Eras Tour surprise songs), favorite tour style and favorite onscreen for theTaylor Swift | The Eras Tour (Taylorâs Version)Â movie.
The 2025 iHeartRadio Music Awards air live from the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on Monday, March 17, at 8 p.m. ET on FOX. Fans can also tune in live to iHeartRadio stations nationwide and on the iHeartRadio app.
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