Carrie Underwood will assist ring in 2025 because the headliner of the 54th version of ABC‘s vacation staple “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest.”
The Grammy-winning nation star will take the stage in Instances Sq. earlier than the ball drops at midnight to carry out a medley of a few of her largest hits.
She’ll lead a lineup together with Lenny Kravitz, Tinashe, Teddy Swims, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Cody Johnson, Thomas Rhett and CMA New Artist of the Yr Megan Moroney.
Rita Ora returns as co-host alongside Seacrest, who’s marking his twentieth yr main the vacation occasion.
Underwood’s look might be her third time performing on the annual celebration since profitable “American Idol” in 2005.
“I have such fun memories of performing on ‘New Year’s Rockin’ Eve’ in Times Square in both 2007 and 2015,” Underwood mentioned in a press release Thursday. “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.”
Underwood has grow to be probably the most profitable singers to come back out of “American Idol,” incomes six platinum albums, eight Grammy Awards and 5 CMA Feminine Vocalist of the Yr Awards. She’s thrice been named the ACM Awards Entertainer of the Yr, essentially the most of any feminine artist.
Subsequent yr, she’ll return to her “Idol” roots, changing Katy Perry on the competitors’s star-studded judging panel. She’ll be a part of returning judges Lionel Richie and Luke Bryan, whereas Seacrest will as soon as once more function host.
“Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest” airs stay Dec. 31 on ABC, starting at 8 p.m., and can stream on Hulu the next day.
Initially Revealed: December 5, 2024 at 3:56 PM EST
