Carrie Underwood‘s out with the previous, in with the brand new angle solely utilized to the 12 months. Because the headlining performer for Dick Clark’s New 12 months’s Rockin’ Eve With Ryan Seacrest 2025, the nation star bid 2024 farewell with a medley efficiency of hits spanning her two-decade-long profession.
From Instances Sq., the artist carried out “Earlier than He Cheats” from her 2005 debut album Some Hearts, 2016’s “Church Bells” from Storyteller, and “Pink Champagne” from 2022’s Denim & Rhinestones. Underwood additionally revealed her upcoming Reflection live performance particular coming to Hulu in January.
“I’ve such enjoyable recollections of acting on New 12 months’s Rockin’ Eve in Instances Sq. in each 2007 and 2015, and I’m so excited to carry out simply earlier than the ball drops once more this 12 months,” Underwood stated in a press release when her efficiency slot was first introduced. “I’m thrilled to rejoice 20 years since profitable American Idol by becoming a member of Ryan as he hosts his twentieth New 12 months’s Eve in Instances Sq..”
Nation music made lots of noise in 2024, crossing over into pop and hip-hop whereas additionally launching fairly a number of stars of its personal. A number of the style’s greatest performers, together with Dasha, Megan Maroney, Thomas Rhett, Blake Shelton, Ernest, and Cody Johnson, additionally carried out in the course of the New 12 months’s Eve particular.
Rockin’ Eve saved the social gathering going from coast to coast. Numerous performances had been held in Las Vegas with host soccer star Rob Gronkowski. Ryan Seacrest and Rita Ora held it down in New York, and Jeannie Mai additionally returned because the West Coast correspondent for the present.
And it wasn’t an all-out nation fest. The Jonas Brothers, Tinashe, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Kesha, and Alanis Morissette additionally joined the lineup. Hip-Hop artists Ja Rule, Fats Joe, Slick Rick, and Doug E. Contemporary rounded out the lineup.
Dick Clark’s New 12 months’s Rockin’ Eve With Ryan Seacrest 2025 aired reside on ABC and can be out there to stream on Hulu starting Jan. 1. (Penske Media Company owns Dick Clark Productions, which can be the father or mother firm of Rolling Stone.)