Times Square New Year’s Eve Entertainment Schedule 2025/26

• America250 presents the opening performance of The Star Spangled Banner by Jenn O’Hagan at the Planet Fitness Center Stage on the Broadway Plaza between 45th and 46th Streets.
• The performance will conclude with pyrotechnic effects atop One Times Square.

‍6:06 PM – 6:09 PM – Our American Story Presented by America250

Co-Host Jeremy Hassell talks with Times Square revelers.

• The Times Square Alliance sanitation crew clad in bright red uniforms distributes tens of thousands of fun handouts to the Times Square revelers for cheering in the New Year.
• Planet Fitness provides purple and silver New Year’s Eve hats along with purple & yellow balloons tied with gold mylar ribbons. Carnival Cruise Line provides fun illuminated necklaces.

• The host of Times Square New Year’s Eve, Jonathan Bennett will share highlights from Good Riddance Day with the Times Square revelers from the Countdown Stage.

• B.o.B will perform his hits Airplanes, Nothin’ On You, and new song Incwadi on the Planet Fitness Center Stage on the Broadway Plaza between 45th and 46th Streets.

• Co-Host Jeremy Hassell talks with Times Square revelers.

• Co-Host Jeremy Hassell talks with Times Square revelers.

• Ciara performs medley of her hit songs on the Countdown Stage.

• The Associated Press, the world’s oldest and largest news gathering organization, presents a news reel highlighting some of the most memorable events of 2025.

• Jonathan Bennett and Jaymes Vaughan appear at the Countdown Stage to wish the Times Square revelers “Happy New Year”; and lead the ten second countdown to the 8 o’clock hour accompanied by colorful pyrotechnic effects atop One Times Square.
• They will also read several of the Confetti Wishes to be mixed into the confetti release at midnight and share their wishes for the New Year.

• Co-Host Jeremy Hassell talks with Times Square revelers.

• Tones and I performs her hit songs Gone Gone Gone, Fly Away, and Dance Monkey on the  Center Stage on the Broadway Plaza between 45th and 46th Streets.

• LE SSERAFIM performs their hit songs on the Countdown Stage.

• New York dance group AGNEW will perform for the revelers on the Center Stage on the Broadway Plaza between 45th and 46th Streets.

• Jonathan Bennett, Jaymes Vaughan and Jeremy Hassell return to the  Countdown Stage to wish the Times Square revelers “Happy New Year” and lead the ten second countdown to the 9 o’clock hour accompanied by colorful pyrotechnic effects atop One Times Square.
• They will also read several of the Confetti Wishes to be mixed into the confetti release at midnight and share their wishes for the New Year.

• Jeremy Hassell talks with Times Square revelers.

• Robyn performs her hit songs Dancing On My Own, Dopamine, and Call Your Girlfriend on the Center Stage.

• Little Big Town performs medley of their hit songs on the Countdown Stage.

9:56  pm – 10:00 pm – Hourly Kia Countdown 

• Brian Povinelli from Planet Fitness will appear at the Countdown Stage to wish the Times Square revelers “Happy New Year”; and lead the ten second countdown to the 10 o’clock hour accompanied by a purple and yellow confetti release and colorful pyrotechnic effects atop One Times Square.
• He will also read several of the Confetti Wishes to be mixed into the confetti release at midnight and share his wish for the New Year.

• Xavi performs medley of his hit songs on the Planet Fitness Center Stage.

• Jeremy Hassell talks with Times Square revelers.

• Maren Morris performs medley of her hit songs on the Countdown Stage.

• Jeremy Hassell talks with more Times Square revelers.

• Raúl de Molina will appear at the Countdown Stage to wish the Times Square revelers “Happy New Year”; and lead the ten second countdown to the 11 o’clock hour accompanied by colorful pyrotechnic effects atop One Times Square.  
• He will also read several of the Confetti Wishes to be mixed into the confetti release at midnight and share his wish for the New Year.

• Ana Barbara performs medley of her hit songs on the Planet Fitness Center Stage.

•  Jeremy Hassell talks with Times Square revelers.

• Diana Ross performs medley of her hit songs on the Countdown Stage.

• Tones and I performs her version of John Lennon’s Imagine on the  Center Stage.

• The Mayor of New York City pushes the crystal button that signals the descent of the New Year’s Eve Ball, and leads the final sixty-second countdown to the New Year on the Countdown Stage.
• The lighted Ball descends 90 feet in sixty seconds.
• The Ball is 12.5 feet in diameter and weighs 12,350 pounds. The Ball is adorned with 5,280 circular Waterford crystals.

The world-famous New Year’s Eve confetti is released from the rooftops of buildings throughout Times Square creating a celebratory blizzard of colorful confetti as revelers welcome the New Year accompanied by colorful pyrotechnic effects.

The three thousand pounds of confetti includes tens of thousands of wishes from revelers around the world hoping for peace, love, good health, and a better future in the new year.

America250 kicks off America’s Semiquincentennial year with patriotic nonpartisan imagery leading into Ray Charles’ inspirational singing of America The Beautiful accompanied by the first ever post-midnight second tidal wave of red, white, and blue confetti (2,000 pounds), and the U.S. flag revealed completely taking over the One Times Square building top to bottom with the Numerals 2026 lit up in red, white, and blue and America250 displayed on the Ball atop the building.

Thanks to the Times Square Alliance for this schedule.

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