Nashville New Year’s Eve headliners to have a local-to-national flavor
Country music’s continuing influence on Nashville’s New Year’s Eve experience will take on an unprecedented local-to-national flavor as over 50 million single-selling Chattanooga native Kane Brown and Grammy-nominated Nashville native Jelly Roll will headline the CBS-aired festivities from Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park.
The duo are the first of numerous acts who will perform live from downtown Nashville during the New Year’s Eve special set to air on Dec. 31 from 810 p.m., ET/PT, 10:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m., ET/ PT on the CBS and streaming 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
2024’s five-hour broadcast will feature an all-star lineup of performances across 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 back-to-back performances from acts, including Lainey Wilson, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Thomas Rhett, Elle King, Grace Bowers and Jackson Dean.
A 75% increase in viewership – equaling nearly eight million homes – viewed the event, making it the highestrated country music program of 2023.
Over 200,000 local revelers and tourists are expected to attend the event. New Year’s Eve has, alongside CMA Fest and 4th of July festivities, has seen tourists spend almost 20 percent more annually in the past five years as the city has welcomed five percent more visitors than before COVID-19’s quarantine.
Kane Brown and Jelly Roll in 2024
Kane Brown has entertained over 2 million people in arenas and stadiums over the past three years. As well, he’s increased his international and multigenre renown in the past 12 months via “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 charttopper Carı́n León.
Also, alongside 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 achieved the equivalent of over 30 million total sales in the past seven years.
Academy of Country Music and Country Music Association award winner Jelly Roll will be nearly three months removed from the Oct. 11 release of his latest album “Beautifully Broken.”
Headlining New Year’s Eve will mark an impressive year for the native of Nashville’s Antioch neighborhood that has seen him appear on ABC, CBS, NBC and Amazon Prime (often on numerous occasions), testifying before the U.S. Congress in support of the FEND Off Fentanyl Act, plus advertising and television commercials for brands including Dunkin Donuts and Uber.
These accomplishments also include a 56-date nationwide tour and hitting No. 1 on country’s radio charts with the Dustin Lynch collaboration “Chevrolet,” plus solo chart-topper “Halfway to Hell.”
