Taylor Swift is playing her first of six sold-out Toronto shows at the Rogers Centre on Thursday, part of her record-breaking Eras Tour — the first tour in history to gross over $1 billion.

Taylor Swift is in Toronto to perform her first of six sold-out shows at the Rogers Centre tonight. The highly anticipated show gets underway at 6:45 p.m. but crowds of excited ‘Swifties’ have already been spotted roaming about the area outside the Rogers Centre in anticipation of the doors to the stadium opening at 4:30 p.m.

As Toronto readies for Taylor Swift's arrival this week, some crowd management and planning experts say additional safety precautions should be taken when tens of thousands of fans fill the city's downtown core on show nights.

Inside the area's embrace of Taylor Nation as Swift prepares to play a half-dozen shows in Canada's biggest city.

Taylor Swift takes her Eras Tour to Canada for the final nine shows of the epic concert series, kicking it off in Toronto on Thursday night for six shows over the last two weeks of November. Swift will wrap up the nearly two-year tour on December 8

Tonight, Taylor Swift takes the stage at Rogers Centre in Toronto as the first of seven shows at the venue. The star will close out “The Eras Tour” at BC Place Stadium in Vancouver next month.