World tours from Taylor Swift and Beyoncé might be inspiring an uptick in divorces.

0:04 Hi, and welcome to Taylor Swift Today. A short round level of aller headlines abound Taylor's music, tours, movies in life. Taylor called out to fans to register on National voter Registration Day last Tuesday, and swifties answered in droves. She posted an Instagram story directing her followers to vote dot org, a nonprofit organization that offers voter registration services. Vote dot org registered more than thirty five thousand voters after Swift's post, which was a twenty two and a half percent increase from the previous year. Organization CEO Andrea Hailey said there was a one hundred fifteen percent increase in registrations by eighteen year olds when compared to last year. The organization also helped fifty thousand people verify their registration status.

0:52 Want to know something even more wild, We see an eight hundred forty nine percent increase here compared to twenty twenty one eight hundred forty nine percent. This generation's eagerness to participate is a game changer, Hailey said in a social media post. They are the future and their energy will shape the outcomes of upcoming elections. Hailey described the numbers as vote dot org's love letter to Swift for amplifying voter voices. If you cashed in this summer by reselling tickets to Taylor Swift's Eras Tour or Leonel Messi's first Games in a Bubblegum Pink Jersey, brace yourself to pay taxes and per the Wall Street Journal, a new law requires ticketing platforms like Ticketmaster and stub hub to give the Internal Revenue Service information on users who sold more than six hundred dollars worth of tickets this year. The new requirements are taking hold amid a banner year for live events in which Swifties, soccer buffs and members of Beyonce's beehive paid sky high prices for a chance to see their favorite stars in the flesh that drove huge markups in the secondary ticket market and delivered hefty profits to one hawking hot tickets. The average price fort Taylor Swift tickets sold in the US on stub Hub was one ninety five, with best seats going for thousands of dollars. According to the company, which operates an online market for people to resell them buy tickets. Averages for Beyonce and Harry Styles clucked in at three eighty and four hundred, respectively.

2:20 After Lionel Messi joined Major League Soccer, the price of tickets to into Miami CF matches shot up to two fifty five apiece from thirty. There was an unusually high number of fan ticket resellers this year. Stub Hub said fan sellers, as opposed to professional ticket brokers, have accounted for about seventy percent of the US eras tour ticket orders, double the proportion of what the company normally sees. The Blockbuster Barbie Movie and World tours from Taylor Swift and Beyonce might be inspiring an uptick in divorces, according to a divorce attorney to the stars this from People. Laura Wasser, whose a list celebrity clients including Arian Grande, Kevin Costner, and Britney Spears, to name a few, told Cosmopolitan she thinks those pop culture bermiths could be linked to many recent breakups. The ongoing writers and actors strikes have also played a part. She said, something going on with a lot of my clients, and what I'm seeing here in southern California is that we're in the middle of one of the worst strikes in history for the writers and actors. So you've also got people who have more time on their hands. They're angry about reproductive rights getting rolled back. They're feeling power by going to see Barbie and Taylor and Beyonce, she continued, and they're like, I don't need this. I'm the one making this money, and I'm not comfortable not working and having this. Spouse's either also not working or never was working. Wassa added, a lot of people have said I'm out, so it's compounded by what's going on here economically. According to Forbes Advisor, about seven and ten heterosexual divorces are initiated by the woman.

3:50 A viral article in August compiled by Huffington Post showed Barbie viewers claiming they broke up with their boyfriends after seeing the movie. Back with more Taylor News and Just Moment, Summer has turned to fall, but Taylor Swift's Cruel Summer continues going strong. Swift tied her longest rule on Billboard's Pop Airplay chart as Cruel Summer rebounds for a seventh week at number one on the ranking dated September thirtieth. She first dominated for seven weeks with I Knew You Were Trouble in twenty thirteen. Cool Summer first hit number one on the Pop Airplay chart dated August fifth, giving Swift sole possession of the most leaders in the history of the survey, so passing the eleven each four Maroon five, Katy Perry, and Rihanna. Cruel Summer was originally released on Swift's twenty nineteen album Lover. Republic Records began promoting it as a single in June, as Swift has performed it on her Eras tour, her first in which she has been able to spotlight songs from Lover, which was released shortly before the onset of the pandemic.

4:48 Cruel Summer previously became her eleventh number one on the Adult Pop Airplay chart, pushing her past Pink for the most leaders among soloists. It has hit number three on the Old Genre mo teen Metric Billboard Hot one hundred, extending Taylor's record for the most top tens among women, a total now up to forty two. You have it, please follow us on Spotify, it Tubes, Google Podcasts, or your app of choice and hit those five stars on Apple. If you like the show, I'm Mark Francis. I think to John McDermott. This is Taylor Swift today