'New Year's Rockin' Eve': Carrie Underwood to close out 2024 with headline performance from Times Square

No. 1 New Year’s Eve destination airs live Tuesday, Dec. 31, beginning at 8 on ABC

ABC Media Relations Press Release

ABC and Dick Clark Productions announced its highly anticipated New York lineup for “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2025,” the nation’s most-watched New Year’s Eve celebration. Ryan Seacrest, marking his 20th year as host, will return alongside co-host Rita Ora to lead the festivities from New York’s Times Square, with an all-star roster of artists including Carrie Underwood, Megan Moroney and Sophie Ellis-Bextor. Multihyphenate Dayanara Torres will return as co-host in Puerto Rico.

“Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2024” will air Tuesday, Dec. 31, live on ABC beginning at 8 p.m. EST and streaming the next day on Hulu.

Underwood said, “I have such fun memories of performing on ‘New Year's Rockin’ Eve’ in Times Square in both 2007 and 2015, and I’m so excited to perform just before the ball drops again this year. I’m thrilled to celebrate 20 years since winning ‘American Idol’ by joining Ryan as he hosts his 20th New Year’s Eve in Times Square.”

Performer highlights

•Marking 20 years since her 2005 life-changing “American Idol” win, current “Idol” judge Underwood will perform a medley of some of her biggest hits in Times Square just before midnight.

•Moroney will take the Times Square stage to culminate an eventful year, which included the release of her second album, “Am I Okay?” The CMA New Artist of the Year will perform a two-song medley of tracks from the album, which debuted at No. 3 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart and was her first Top 10 album on the Billboard 200 chart. Moroney also spent much of 2024 on tour with Kenny Chesney, hitting sold-out stadiums across the U.S.

•Legendary British singer-songwriter Ellis-Bextor will make her “New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” debut with a performance of her Platinum-certified hit “Murder on the Dancefloor” from Times Square. Since being featured in the recent film “Saltburn,” “Murder on the Dancefloor” has become one of the top viral hits of the year, climbing to the Top 5 on global charts and charting for the first time ever in the U.S. over 20 years after its original release.

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More performances

On Tuesday, ABC and Dick Clark Productions announced additional performers for “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2025.” Performances from the “West Coast Party” will include Alanis Morissette, with special guest Reneé Rapp; Dasha; “DJ Cassidy’s Pass The Mic Live! starring Ja Rule, Fat Joe, Slick Rick & Doug E. Fresh”; Ernest; HARDY; Kesha; Laufey; Natasha Bedingfield; and T-Pain. Additionally, Blake Shelton will perform from Las Vegas; Luis Fonsi from his native Puerto Rico; and TLC joins the star-studded Times Square lineup in New York in a performance sponsored by Carnival Cruise Line.

This year will mark the second consecutive year Dick Clark Productions and iHeartMedia broadcast “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest” live across 150 iHeartRadio stations nationwide. Music fans across the country can listen in to iHeartRadio stations to catch “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2025,” live on Tuesday, Dec. 31, beginning at 8 p.m. EST. The show will also be available to stream live on the iHeartRadio app.

Performer highlights

•Morissette will kick off the 30th anniversary celebration of her acclaimed and influential album “Jagged Little Pill,” one of the bestselling albums of all time. Morissette will take the stage multiple times throughout the night and will be joined by special guest Rapp for a performance of “You Oughta Know.”

•With 40 Top 10 singles and 29 No. 1 songs, award-winning country music superstar Shelton will perform some of his biggest hits, as well as “Texas,” his latest single and first new solo song in two years, from Las Vegas.

•Country music singer-songwriter Dasha will make her “New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” debut with a performance of “Austin (Boots Stop Workin’),” which garnered over 10 billion views on TikTok and has officially been RIAA-Certified Platinum and Gold in the U.S. and 17 other countries in the world.

•DJ Cassidy will bring his trailblazing “Pass The Mic Live!” experience to “New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” with hip-hop icons Ja Rule, Fat Joe, Slick Rick & Doug E. Fresh, who all united this past summer for their groundbreaking “Pass The Mic Live!” Las Vegas residency, inspired by old-world Las Vegas mainstays like “The Rat Pack.”

•Breakout country singer-songwriter Ernest will culminate his exciting year of CMA, Billboard and Grammy nominations with a medley performance of his hit song “Why Dallas” off his current album “Nashville, Tennessee,” and the Grammy-nominated collaboration “I Had Some Help,” which was co-written by Ernest.

•Culminating a significant 2024 that included his new album “QUIT!!” and a U.S. headline tour, genre-bending singer-songwriter HARDY will perform a medley of “Psycho” and “Truck Bed.”

•Global pop sensation Kesha will deliver an unforgettable performance celebrating 15 years of her iconic hit “TiK ToK” while showcasing “Joyride,” her groundbreaking first release as an independent artist this year.

•Laufey, the Grammy Award-winning artist whom the New York Times called “Gen Z’s pop jazz icon,” will make her “New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” debut with her hit song “From The Start.”

•Puerto Rico native Fonsi will ring in the new year and perform a medley spanning some of his greatest hits from the past decade. Fonsi’s performance will take place just before midnight in the Atlantic Time Zone, one hour before the ball drops in Times Square.

•Bedingfield will return to “New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” to perform and celebrate the 20th anniversary of one of the most defining pop anthems, “Unwritten,” which she first performed on the show in 2007.

•In a performance sponsored by Carnival Cruise Line, trailblazers TLC, the bestselling American girl group of all time with over 65 million records sold worldwide, will take the Times Square stage and perform hits from their groundbreaking career, including songs off their multi-Platinum album “Crazysexycool,” which celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2024.

•Grammy Award-winning artist, producer, songwriter, entrepreneur and global cultural icon T-Pain will take the stage and perform two medleys of his greatest hits.

Previously announced

•In his 20th year as host of America’s most-watched New Year’s Eve special, Seacrest will lead the countdown to midnight alongside global superstar Ora live from Times Square.

•Performers also include rock legend Lenny Kravitz, who has sold over 40 million albums and recently released his 12th studio album; genre-bending singer-songwriter Teddy Swims; multi-Platinum certified R&B disruptor, singer, songwriter and dancer Tinashe; chart-topping country superstar Cody Johnson; and five-time Grammy-nominated hitmaker Thomas Rhett.

Champagne toast

The No. 1 New Year’s Eve programming special each year, ABC’s “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2024” attracted 22.2 million total viewers at midnight.

The show, which marks its 54th year, celebrates the year’s very best in music with hours of dynamic performances, America’s favorite personalities and a look at New Year’s celebrations around the globe.

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