Alanis Morissette and Blake Shelton have joined the lineup of artists set to ring in the new year on the incredibly cumbersomely-titled Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2025. Reneé Rapp, Dasha, DJ Cassidy’s Pass The Mic Live! starring Ja Rule, Luis Fonsi, TLC, Fat Joe, Slick Rick & Doug E. Fresh, Ernest, HARDY, Kesha, Laufey, Natasha Bedingfield, and T-Pain will also bid farewell to 2024 during this year’s holiday special.
New Year’s Rockin’ Eve will air live on Tuesday, December 31, 2024 at 8pm ET on ABC. Dick Clark Productions and iHeartMedia are partnering again this year to stream the end-of-the-year special on 150 iHeartRadio stations nationwide. Ryan Seacrest returns as host for the 20th year, with Rita Ora joining him in Times Square and Dayanara Torres co-hosting in Puerto Rico.
Details on the Artists Performing on New Year’s Rockin’ Eve, Courtesy of ABC:
• Alanis Morissette will kick off the 30th anniversary celebration of her acclaimed and influential album JAGGED LITTLE PILL, one of the best-selling albums of all time. Morissette will take the stage multiple times throughout the night and will be joined by special guest Reneé Rapp for a performance of “You Oughta Know.”</p.
• With 40 top 10 singles and 29 No. 1 songs, award-winning Country music superstar Blake 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 seventeen 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 who 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 and award-winning artist Luis Fonsi will ring in the New Year in Puerto Rico, performing a medley spanning some of his greatest hits from his successful 25-year career. His performance will take place just before midnight in the Atlantic Time Zone, one hour before the ball drops in Times Square.
• Natasha 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 best-selling 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.
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