1989 Tour Should Give Taylor Swift Her First $100 Million Year

Earlier this weekin Bossier City, Louisiana, Taylor Swift played eighteen songs to a sold-out crowd at the CenturyLink Center, kicking off the North American leg of her 1989 tour. But her performance at the 14,000-seat arena is just the beginning of what promises to be the best financial year of her career so far.

Swift’s tour, which is set to include more than 75 dates across three continents through the end of 2015, should mark the first time she tops the $100 million mark in annual earning...