Taylor Swift fans turn up on Black Friday for vinyl album, new book

Young Taylor Swift fans and their parents lined up outside some of Target's nearly 2,000 U.S. stores early on Black Friday (November 29) to buy copies of her new Eras Tour book and vinyl album. Hoping to buck a long stretch of slowing sales at Target stores - with penny-pinched shoppers making purchases at rival retailers - the big-box chain teamed up with Swift to build on the fan momentum she experienced following her Eras Tour concerts. Several customers queued up outside Target stores as early as 5 a.m. ET in freezing temperatures, with most of them there to snap up Swift merchandise. "Yeah, it's really cold, but we're here to get Taylor Swift's tour book and her latest vinyl drop," Carlos Miracle, a 31-year old Swift fan, said while waiting outside a Chicago store. Parents of teenage daughters and youngsters in their late 20's were up and about to buy Swift's Eras Tour book priced at $39.99 at Target. The retailer is also making available a vinyl and CD version of "The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology" for the first time, containing 35 tracks including four acoustic bonus songs. The vinyl version is being sold for $59.99 and CDs for $17.99, according to Target's website. Swift, 34, has been setting music industry milestones and boosting local economies with The Eras Tour, with the last leg of the concert happening in Canada currently, a phenomenon that some economists have termed "Swiftflation." Swift had released her latest Tortured Poets album in May during Target's first quarter, boosting its sales in its entertainment category by a high-single-digit percentage. On Friday, Julia Corrin, a 39-year-old from Pittsburgh bought the Era Tour book. The tour was a "really special moment ... and it'll be great to have something to remember it by," she said. To boost sales during the holiday season, which is shorter than in previous years with only 26 days between Thanksgiving and Christmas, Target will offer the Eras Tour items on its app and website beginning Saturday. (Production: Justin Nathanson, Eric Cox, Vanessa O'connell, Kyoko Gasha)