Award-winning chart-toppers and Tennessee musicians Kane Brown and Jelly Roll will headline CBS’s New Year’s Eve show in Nashville on December 31st.
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Country music’s continued influence on the Nashville New Year’s Eve experience will take on an unprecedented local and national dimension when Chattanooga native Kane Brown, with over 50 million singles sales, and Nashville native Jelly Roll headline the CBS-televiscerated festivities at Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park.
The duo is the first of numerous acts that will perform live from downtown Nashville during the New Year’s Eve special, which will air on December 31 from 8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. ET/PT and 10:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. ET/PT on CBS and stream on Paramount+ (live and on-demand for Paramount+ with SHOWTIME subscribers or on-demand for Paramount+Essential subscribers the day after the special airs).
New Year’s Eve in Nashville at a glance
The five-hour broadcast in 2024 will feature an all-star lineup with performances from multiple time zones, all broadcast from locations across Music City.
Last year’s edition of New Year’s Eve Live: Nashville’s Big Bash featured over 50 consecutive performances by artists such as Lainey Wilson, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Thomas Rhett, Elle King, Grace Bowers and Jackson Dean.
Viewership increased by 75% – equivalent to nearly eight million households – making the event the highest-rated country music program of 2023.
More than 200,000 local revelers and tourists are expected to attend the event. On New Year’s Eve, along with CMA Fest and the Fourth of July celebrations, tourists have spent nearly 20 percent more annually over the past five years as the city has received five percent more visitors than before the COVID-19 quarantine.
Kane Brown and Jelly Roll in 2024
Having entertained over 2 million people in arenas and stadiums over the past three years, Kane Brown has also increased his international and cross-genre reputation over the past 12 months with “Miles on It,” an EDM-meets-country single with producer Marshmello, and “The One (Pero No Como Yo),” a bilingual tropical house-meets-country duet with Regional Mexican Airplay chart-topper Carín León.
In addition to his five-year-old single “Heaven,” eight other singles – “Be Like That,” “Bury Me in Georgia,” “Good as You,” “Homesick,” “Lose It,” “One Thing Right,” “Thank God,” and “What Ifs” – have sold a total of over 30 million copies in the last seven years.
Nearly three months after the October 11 release of his latest album, “Beautifully Broken,” by Academy of Country Music and Country Music Association award-winning Jelly Roll.
The New Year’s Eve headlining show will mark an impressive year for the Nashville-based Antioch native, who has performed on ABC, CBS, NBC and Amazon Prime (often on numerous occasions), testified before the U.S. Congress in favor of the FEND Off Fentanyl Act, and appeared in commercials and television spots for brands such as Dunkin Donuts and Uber.
These successes also include a 56-date national tour and the number one spot on the country radio charts with the Dustin Lynch collaboration “Chevrolet,” as well as the solo chart-topping “Halfway to Hell.”
