- A Singaporean financial institution’s cardholders have unique entry to presales for Taylor Swift live performance tickets.
- Swiftie bachelors are going viral as they jokingly seek for dates who occur to be cardholders.
- Over 300,000 followers are anticipated to attend the live performance’s Singapore dates, per The Straits Occasions.
Eligible bachelors wish to rating tickets to Taylor Swift’s Singapore live performance so badly they’re posting their profiles on Twitter, hoping to land a date who checks one key criterion: they have to personal a United Overeas Financial institution, or UOB, bank card.
Beginning Wednesday, UOB cardholders could have unique entry to a presale for tickets to Swift’s live shows, which will likely be held within the city-state from March 2 to March 9, 2024.
Most people won’t have entry till two days later.
Eager to beat the frenzy for tickets, enterprising Swifties jokingly began to tweet out their relationship profiles in quest of romantic companions who additionally occurred to be cardholders.
In a tweet on June 23 that is been considered over 2.3 million occasions, @jameswindborne, a self-professed Swift-fan, described himself as a 30-year-old pilot and architect who “can afford to stay on this financial system.”
His standards for a associate: a “male/feminine” who lives in Singapore or Japan and is a “UOB Credit score/Debit cardholder.”
—James (@jameswindborne) June 22, 2023
Dozens of other Taylor Swift fans are racking up hundreds of likes with tweets in the identical format.
Hazim Azman, a Malaysian fan who tweeted two selfies and a bulleted list of reasons to date him, advised Insider on Wednesday that he considers his tweet profitable, as he befriended just a few people who find themselves UOB cardholders and promised to assist him safe tickets.
“Fingers crossed, let’s hope we safe the tickets as we speak,” he mentioned, planning to journey right down to Singapore to catch the present if he will get tickets.
There have been already over 1 million followers within the presale queue on Wednesday, native media outlet The Straits Occasions reported. Over 300,000 followers are anticipated to attend the live performance’s Singapore dates, per the report.
The attract of potential early live performance tickets has additionally spiked bank card sign-ups in Southeast Asia by 45% within the week after the promotion was introduced, UOB mentioned in a Tuesday assertion seen by Insider. A lot of the authorised sign-ups had been for these between 20 to 40 years outdated, the financial institution mentioned.
Solely cardholders in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam are eligible for the presale.
The Eras Tour may develop into the first-ever live performance to earn greater than $1 billion from tickets, merchandise, and sponsorships, in line with a June 26 report by The Wall Street Journal.
