Taylor Swift is one smart cookie! And charitable too. She raised $750,000 for victims of last month’s tornado in Alabama with a simple idea: Sell tickets to a rehearsal of her upcoming tour.
On May 21, the singer/songwriter allowed 13,000 of her fans to watch her dress rehearse for the real thing. Swift told Access Hollywood: “It was so wonderful. It was almost like playing our first show because were playing for 13,000 people and it’s the whole show the way we would do the last dress rehearsal and I’m just so excited that we got to raise $750,000 dollars for the victims of the tornadoes.”
Taylor, GREAT IDEA! DO IT AGAIN! BRILLIANT!
, which sold 1,047,000 units in its first week of release alone – the highest tally for any release in five years – and has sold out one concert arena after another. All of this before reaching her 21st birthday.