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Fans described how they got tickets to the show outside the stadium._  by [Jeannie Kopstein](https://time.com/author/jeannie-kopstein/)  ## Jeannie Kopstein May 31, 2023 7:41 PM UTC Taylor Swift played three shows at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey over Memorial Day weekend, breaking the stadium's attendance record with an audience of 217,625 over three nights. Fans described how they got tickets to the show outside the stadium.  by [Jeannie Kopstein](https://time.com/author/jeannie-kopstein/)  ## Jeannie Kopstein May 31, 2023 7:41 PM UTC ## Transcript [00:15] It's a Saturday night. [00:38] A trillion things you could have decided your Saturday and instead, [00:46] you decided to go to a lot of effort to be here with us. [00:55] Ticketmaster gate of 2020 to 15 hours of our forgot Ticketmaster. [01:00] Yeah, we use like a lot of people are straight tripping. [01:20] If I didn't get tickets the first time around with Ticketmaster [01:26] in email from that, you're one of his fans that had a verify [01:33] phone and you didn't get tickets Taylor access to make more [01:37] opportunities to get tickets to work, or vans. [01:39] So I basically authorize them to charge my credit card fees [01:44] for me then I would get the seat still like a couple of days [01:48] later I found out that I got tickets to the show was a real [01:53] Cinderella Story. [01:55] We don't know if it was real or not, [02:08] but we got tickets soon, babe. [02:19] It was a fluke. [02:27] Feel like everyone else is struggling. [02:28] I got 2 minutes right in and I just bought the first tickets. [02:42] I got very lucky. [02:44] O'Malley has a presale, code lawhead, Plastering it. [02:47] So I sat on koneser through. [02:51] So I think it took maybe 35 minutes for us to finally hit complete [02:55] Sophia. [02:58] We got it on Ticketmaster. [03:01] We're sitting in the last row and I told everybody at work. [03:24] I'm going here. [03:24] Everyone that I ever met in my life. 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