Overview
- Social media creator Haley Baylee will report from Times Square and lead the East Coast midnight countdown.
- The special airs live on CBS and streams on Paramount+ starting at 8 p.m. ET/PT, pauses for local news at 10 p.m., then returns live through 1:30 a.m. ET/PT.
- Hardy will perform at Bicentennial Park as Nashville marks midnight CT with the Music Note Drop from the Bicentennial Stage.
- The five-hour lineup features citywide performances by Jason Aldean, Lainey Wilson, Bailey Zimmerman, Dierks Bentley, Brooks & Dunn, Rascal Flatts, Megan Moroney, Keith Urban and others.
- Special appearances include comedian Dusty Slay, Entertainment Tonight’s Cassie DiLaura, SiriusXM’s Buzz Brainard and UFC champion Kayla Harrison, with production led by executive producers Robert Deaton and Mary Hilliard Harrington and director Sandra Restrepo in partnership with Music City Inc.