Taylor Swift’s concerts can be seen from SPACE! Satellite photos reveal the sheer extent of the crowd at her sold-out Denver show – complete with 7,200 cars in the parking lot

Tickets to Taylor Swift‘s Eras Tour are the hottest in town, with touts trying to resell them to desperate fans for up to £10,000.

Now, satellite images have revealed the sheer scale of the popstar’s popularity.

Virginia-based company BlackSky used a satellite to snap a series of photos of Denver’s Empower Field at Mile High, before and after Taylor Swift took to the stage last week.

Unsurprisingly, the gig was completely sold out, with both the stadium and parking lot packed out.

‘Analysis estimates there were ~7,200 cars in the parking lots!’ BlackSky tweeted.

Virginia-based company BlackSky used a satellite to snap a series of photos of Denver’s Empower Field at Mile High, before and after Taylor Swift took to the stage last week

Swift performed two shows in Denver on July 14 and July 15, with a staggering 70,000 fans turning up to watch on each night

Swift performed two shows in Denver on July 14 and July 15, with a staggering 70,000 fans turning up to watch on each night. 

After the gigs, Swift tweeted: ‘Just had the best time in Denver!! And we got to be the first tour to play in that stadium 2 nights.

‘It’s really hitting me that we only have 3 cities left on the US Eras Tour. 

‘This has been my favorite adventure of all. I appreciate and cherish every second of it.’

To put the sheer scale of her concert into perspective, BlackSky turned to its constellation of Earth-observation satellites, which orbit at an altitude of around 280 miles (450km).

The concert started at 18:30pm, and satellites showed just how much the stadium changed throughout the day. 

‘We captured imagery from 9:36 a.m., 3:40 p.m., and 6:27 p.m. MT of the Denver stop of the #ErasTour,’ BlackSky tweeted. 

The satellite image at 09:36 shows an almost empty parking lot, while the stadium itself is also empty. 

However, by 15:40 – almost three hours before the show – the parking lot had started to fill up. 

The concert started at 18:30pm, and satellites showed just how much the stadium changed throughout the day

Finally, by 18:27 – three minutes before the show – both the stadium and parking lots were completely full.  

‘Analysis estimates there were ~7,200 cars in the parking lots!’ BlackSky added. 

The new images come as Taylor Swift fans slammed Ticketmaster yet again after discovering tickets they bought for friends and family for the much-anticipated UK Eras Tour may be useless.

The ticketing giant has updated its terms and conditions to make the sell-out tour a ‘lead booker’ event, meaning the person who purchased the tickets has to be present at the venue to get in.

This is likely to deter ticketing touts and resellers, with tickets already on resale sites for up to £10,000.

But this has left many Swifties attending UK gigs in London, Liverpool, Edinburgh and Cardiff fuming that tickets they’ve bought as gifts for friends will be invalid.

Others have complained that this could mean children who have had tickets bought for them by their parents will not be allowed entry, while those who want to attend but can’t because of sickness may not be able to give tickets away to friends.

Taylor not-so-Swift: Pop music evolves as sluggishly as a snail 

Despite more than half a century of rapid musical change from the Beatles to Taylor Swift, pop music evolves as slowly as the animal kingdom, according to scientists.

A new study led by Imperial College London researchers has found that the evolution of modern culture, including pop music, is just as slow as biological evolution.

The scientists looked at recent records of changes in pop music, literature, scientific papers and cars to see how quickly culture evolves, and compared them with rates of change in finches, moths and a species of snail.  

The team then applied metrics developed by evolutionary biologists to calculate the rates of change for both groups over time.

Not only did they find that animals and culture have similar rates of change, but that both are shaped by selective forces that stablise them or cause them to evolve in a particular direction – such as the shift from new wave to new romantics. 

From Taylor Swift’s country-based roots to her modern dancefloor anthems, it can seem like pop culture changes really quickly, but new UK research suggests it evolves no faster than the animal kingdom