WHAT:
This year marks the 50th anniversary of “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2022,” America’s go-to New Year’s tradition, which celebrates the year’s very best in music. The show sets the stage to ring in the new year with more than five and a half hours of dynamic performances airing until 2:00 a.m. EST and gives viewers a look at New Year’s celebrations from around the globe.

WHO:

The star-studded NYRE lineup also includes 17-time host and executive producer Ryan Seacrest in Times Square with first-time co-host Liza Koshy, co-host Ciara from the L.A. Party, co-host Billy Porter from New Orleans, and first-time co-host Roselyn Sanchez leading the festivities in Puerto Rico, the inaugural destination for the show’s first Spanish-language countdown.

Times Square will see performances from Ashanti & Ja Rule and Journey.

New Orleans co-host Billy Porter will deliver his new hit single and a sneak peak of a future classic on the riverboat Louis Armstrong on the mighty Mississippi River in the historic French Quarter.
Global music star and reggaeton dynamo Daddy Yankee will give a special hometown performance in Puerto Rico.

Los Angeles performers include AJR and duo Daisy The Great, Avril Lavigne and Travis Barker, Big Boi with Sleepy Brown, Don Omar with Nio Garcia, French Montana, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis with Windser, Måneskin, Mae Muller, Polo G, Masked Wolf, OneRepublic, and Walker Hayes.

POWERBALL correspondent Jessie James Decker will announce the “POWERBALL First Millionaire of the Year” live from New York just after midnight.

WHEN:
“Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2022” Airs Live Friday, Dec. 31, Beginning at 8/7c on ABC

MORE:
The No. 1 New Year’s Eve programming special each year, last year’s program dominated the combined deliveries of its broadcast competitors by 7.0 million Total Viewers and by 63% with Adults 18-49. Soaring by double digits year over year, last year’s late-night telecast attracted 18.4 million Total Viewers and ranked as the highest-rated musical special of 2020 among Adults 18-49.