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Dick Clark Productions and MGM Resorts International are teaming as much as develop Dick Clark’s iconic New Year’s Rockin’ Eve With Ryan Seacrest with its first-ever reside countdown from Las Vegas, sources inform Billboard.
The present, which airs on ABC and instructions the most important TV viewership of any non-sports rated present, will now be a bi-coastal affair, with performances by a variety of high music stars at MGM Resorts venues together with Dolby Live at Park MGM, the MGM Grand Garden Arena, and Mandalay Bay. Artists confirmed for performances embrace Lenny Kravitz, these sources add. The West Coast present will coincide with the enduring Times Square ball drop broadcast in New York City.
The efficiency wraps up an thrilling yr for Kravitz who dropped his twelfth studio album, Blue Electric Light, again in May by way of Roxie Records/BMG. The challenge was written and recorded by Kravitz in his studio within the Bahamas, and options the singles “Paralyzed,” “TK421” and “Human.” The assortment, he instructed Jimmy Fallon for a late-night interview that aired in March, is about “celebration, life, humanity, sexuality, sensuality, spirituality.” Blue Electric Light is “just that vibration of love, of god, of spirit.”
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In addition to musical acts, anticipate well-known magicians, circus artists and extra at New Year’s Rockin’ Eve With Ryan Seacrest. Last yr, the present reached 36 million viewers, up 22% from the earlier yr, with 28.9 million folks tuning in at midnight second alone, in response to Nielsen. The NYE social gathering included performances from NewDenims, Megan Thee Stallion, Jelly Roll, Sabrina Carpenter, LL Cool J, Cardi B, Green Day and extra.
