Times Square New Year's Eve 2024/25 Entertainment Schedule

For more than 100 years, Times Square has been the center of worldwide attention on New Year’s Eve, ever since the owners of One Times Square began in 1904 to conduct rooftop celebrations to greet the New Year.

The first Ball Lowering celebration was in 1907, and this tradition is now a universal symbol of welcoming the New Year.

Join at least one million of your closest friends in person, or watch on TV with millions of others around the world.

This year’s event features live performances by Mark Ambor, Mickey Guyton, Rita Ora, Carrie Underwood, Jonas Brothers, Megan Moroney,Sophie Ellis-Bextor, TLC, Greeicy, De La Ghetto, and Kapo plus special activities and appearances throughout the evening.

Unlike past years, when the Times Square Alliance and its partners issued a minute-by-minute schedule, this year’s is more general, but we expect the timetable to be the same – with a megastar performance a few minutes after every hour, and fun and games for the rest of each hour.

If you want a timetable to follow, check our minute-by-minute schedule for last New Year’s Eve.

Times Square 2025: What to Expect & When

The ceremony begins at 6pm with the lighting and raising of the New Year’s Eve Ball atop One Times Square. Then, the Sino-American Friendship Association (SAFA) presents a spectacular Chinese cultural performance titled “A Spring Festival Celebration.” In 2024, the Chinese Spring Festival which marks the beginning of the new year on the Chinese Calendar was inscribed on UNESCO’s representative list of the intangible cultural heritage of humanity. The performance highlights Chinese flag dancing, opera,and a mix of modern and traditional music and dance to celebrate the Year of the Snake.

Returning as the evening’s host is actor and Hallmark TV producer and Food Network host Jonathan Bennett, who is joined by celebrity interviewer Jeremy Hassell.

Times Square 2025 LIVE Performances on the Planet Fitness and Countdown Stages:

Mark Ambor performs his hit songs, “Belong Together,” “Good to Be,” and “Our Way”
Mickey Guyton performs her hit songs, “My Side of the Country,” “House on Fire,” “All American,” and the special Times Square New Year’s Eve tradition of singing John Lennon’s “Imagine” moments before midnight
Rita Ora performs on ABC’s “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest”
Jonas Brothers performs on ABC’s “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest”
Megan Moroney performs on ABC’s “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest”
Sophie Ellis-Bextor performs on ABC’s “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest”
TLC performs on ABC’s “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest”
Carrie Underwood performs on ABC’s “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest”
Greeicy performs on Univision’s ¡Feliz 2025!
De La Ghetto performs on Univision’s ¡Feliz 2025!
Kapo performs on Univision’s ¡Feliz 2025!
The Sino-American Friendship Association (SAFA) will present a cultural performance titled “A Spring Festival Celebration”
AGNEW, a New York dance group, will perform for the revelers
Triad Brass, New York City’s 5-piece brass band featuring Grammy Award winner Jonathan Arons.

In addition to the performances, the evening also features special moments, including:

The Associated Press, the world’s oldest and largest news gathering organization, will present their annual year-in-review news reel highlighting some of the most memorable events of 2024.

The festivities also include an immersive virtual experience from One Times Square – home of the iconic New Year’s Eve Ball Drop Celebration. Through the VNYE website, people from across the globe can livestream New Year’s Eve celebrations in Times Square.

This year, millions of Fortnite players can explore Times Square Island: a new Fortnite island based on the New Year’s Eve celebration at One Times Square. Players can access three NYE-themed games and quests through the virtual One Times Square building. The celebration will feature NYE wishes in different time zones including a live Ball Drop Celebration.

Revelers across the globe will be able to experience the Times Square New Year’s Eve celebration via the six-hour, live commercial-free webcast, enabled by Live X.

The 16^th annual webcast will cover all the action, beginning with the Ball Raising at 6 p.m. EST, plus live musical performances, hourly countdowns, behind-the-scenes stories, and star-studded interviews as anticipation builds towards the midnight countdown and the famous Ball Drop. The custom-designed embeddable video provides viewers with a full Times Square New Year’s Eve experience.

This live webcast video experience is available to embed for digital media outlets, bloggers, social media editors, webmasters, and Facebook users as a source of fun and entertaining content on their own sites customized for their respective communities and networks.

The highly anticipated festivities will also include an immersive virtual experience from One Times Square – home of the iconic New Year’s Eve Ball Drop Celebration. Through the VNYE website, people from across the globe can livestream New Year’s Eve celebrations in Times Square. This year, millions of Fortnite players can explore Times Square Island: a new Fortnite island based on the New Year’s Eve celebration at One Times Square. Players can access three NYE-themed games and quests through the virtual One Times Square building. The celebration will feature NYE wishes in different time zones including a live Ball Drop Celebration.

For over 120 years, Times Square has been the center of worldwide attention on New Year’s Eve, ever since the owners of One Times Square began in1904 to conduct rooftop celebrations to greet the New Year. The first Ball Lowering celebration occurred in 1907, and this tradition is now a universal symbol of welcoming the New Year.

How to Watch Commercial-Free

The Times Square 2025 Webcast will begin at 6 p.m. ET on December 31, 2024, and end at 12:15 a.m. ET on January 1, 2025. The show will be streamed live on multiple websites, including

Times Square New Year’s Eve Street Closures

The New York Police Department will stop the flow of traffic in Times Square starting at 4am on Tues. Dec. 31.

At 4 p.m. multiple avenues will also close to pedestrians. Viewing areas for the ball drop will close throughout the day as they fill with revelers, so the earlier you get there, the closer you will be to the action.

Beginning at 4 a.m.

West 42nd to West 49th Street between Seventh Avenue and Broadway
West 43rd to West 48th Street between Sixth Avenue and Eighth Avenue

Beginning at 11 a.m.

West 37th to West 57th Street between Seventh Avenue and Broadway
West 37th to West 56th Street between Sixth Avenue and Eighth Avenue

Beginning at 4 p.m.

Eighth Avenue and Sixth Avenue close to pedestrians and vehicles
If you need to cross from the west side of Eight Avenue to the east side, or from the east side of Sixth Avenue to the west side, there will be pedestrian crossings at 41st, 44th, 50th, 54th, and 57th Streets.

Pedestrian access points to enter viewing areas:

49th from Sixth and Eighth Avenues
52nd from Sixth and Eighth Avenues
56th from Sixth and Eighth Avenues

ecoXplorer Evelyn Kanter is a journalist with 25+ years of experience as a newspaper and magazine writer, radio & TV news producer & reporter, and author of guidebooks and smartphone apps – all focusing on travel, automotive, the environment and your rights as a consumer.