Dasha, DJ Cassidy’s Pass the Mic Live!, T-Pain, TLC & others to perform
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, and 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 will join the star-studded Times Square lineup in New York in a performance sponsored by Carnival Cruise Line.
The annual special will air on Tuesday, December 31st live on ABC beginning at 8 pm EST and stream the next day on Hulu.
This year will mark the second consecutive year that Dick Clark Productions and iHeartMedia will broadcast the event live across 150 iHeartRadio stations nationwide.
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.”
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 ten 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-hip 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.
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.
T-Pain will take the stage and perform two medleys of his greatest hits.
Additional New Year’s Rockin’ Eve performers also include rock legend Lenny Kravitz, 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.
In his 20th year as host of America’s most-watched New Year’s Eve special, Ryan Seacrest will lead the countdown to midnight alongside global superstar Rita Ora live from Times Square. Multi-hyphenate Dayanara Torres will return as co-host in Puerto Rico.
Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2025 will air Tuesday, December 31st, live on ABC beginning at 8 pm EST and stream the next day on Hulu.
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.
