Taylor Swift has worked long and hard to make her music video an EPIC. Last May it was reported how she intensively prepared for the release of her album, wanting for it to live-up to the standards of the legendary video of Michael's Jackson's 'Thriller'.

'Thriller' has always been distinguished as the most iconic video in the pop music industry and Taylor Swift has planned on becoming the new Michael Jackson in terms of making hits and record sales. It can even be said that she actually hopes to surpass the success of the King of Pop's 'Thriller'.

With the huge success of 1989 she has probably done that already. It has been a top selling album for the past year, garnering a staggering $5 million amount in sales and still counting.

Her 1989 World Tour on the other hand, was reported to have hit a $130 million mark in terms of ticket sales by the BillBoard Boxscore. With that, it's right on track to becoming the singer's highest grossing tour ever. Tay has actually still four months to go before the 1989 Tour ends on December in Australia.

At the end of August, the 1989 Tour was reported to have sold an additional $1.1 million tickets from her 37 performances.

This easily puts the artist on top of the Billboard's latest Hot Tours tally and this is the fourth time she has appeared on the list for this year alone. This ranking is based on the box office grosses that sums up to $43.5 million.

Her ongoing tour through North America is being done in six venues and will run until the end of October. This includes five sell out shows at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, that recorded $8.9 million dollars in box office revenue. The tour's top gross since it's launch last May.

In Europe, 1989 Tour was on three arenas and ran until June. It included an appearance at the Barclaycard British Summer Time festival at London's Hyde Park on June 27, that made the headlines. In addition to this, are five arena performances in four countries. This recap includes the sold out shows in Glasgow, Manchester and Dublin.