New Year’s Eve Live: Nashville’s Big Bash

Matt Roush says...

Music City is the setting for a five-hour musical blowout hosted by comedian Bert Kreischer and country music’s HARDY, with social media star Haley Baylee reporting from New York City’s Ball Drop before Nashville’s own Music Note Drop at Bicentennial Stage. HARDY leads a roster of performers at Nashville’s Bicentennial Park, including Jason Aldean, Lainey Wilson, Bailey Zimmerman, Dierks Bentley, Brooks & Dunn, Rascal Flatts, Keith Urban, Gretchen Wilson, and many more.

Other New Year’s Eve options:

• A Toast to 2025! (10:30/9:30c, NBC): Today‘s Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush look back at the year in a two-hour retrospective with NBC News, Sports, and Entertainment personalities. Guests include comedian Jim Gaffigan, Lil Rel Howery, Carson Kressley, Loni Love, Tom Papa, Wanda Sykes, and Saturday Night Live alum Bobby Moynihan.
• CNN’s New Year’s Eve Live With Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen (8 pm/ET, CNN): Following a full day of reports of New Year’s celebrations across the glove, the CNN and Bravo hosts team up to cut up once again, with guests including Stephen Colbert, Robyn performing from Times Square, Shakira in Hollywood, Florida, Brandy and Monica from their The Boy Is Mine Tour, Bryan Adams at Madison Square Garden, plus Florence + The Machine, Brandi Carlile, Aloe Blacc, Patti LaBelle and more.
• Who Can Forget 2025? (8 pm/ET, Fox News): Fox News personalities look back at the top stories and pop-culture breakthroughs of the years. Followed by A New Year With Kat and Tyrus (9 pm/ET), with FNC contributors Tyrus and Kat Timpf recapping their favorite stories and videos of the year, and at 11/10c, Jimmy Failla hosts an All-American New Year’s Bash with The Big Weekend Show‘s Tomi Lahren, Bar Rescue‘s Jon Taffer and comedians Aaron Berg and Charles McBee.

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