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New Jeans, the first K-pop girl group to perform on ABC's New Year's Eve special show
On the 14th, the agency ADOR announced through its official SNS that NewJeans (Minzy, Hani, Daniel, Haerin, Hyein) will be appearing on ABC's 'Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2024'. with Ryan Seacrest announced that he will appear in 2024 (hereinafter referred to as 'New Year's Rockin' Eve').
'New Year's Rockin' Eve', which celebrates its 52nd anniversary this year, is the most-watched New Year's Eve special program in the United States, starting every year on the evening of December 31st and continuing until dawn on New Year's Day. This program, which runs for over 5 hours, is full of attractions, including performances by the year's best singers and a New Year's countdown event in Times Square in New York.
This year's global lineup, which was additionally revealed on this day, included Post Malone and Ivy Queen along with NewJeans. Post Malone will perform in Las Vegas and Ivy Queen will perform in Puerto Rico. NewJeans performs on stage in Korea and meets viewers. They are scheduled to perform the title songs 'Super Shy' and 'ETA' from their second EP 'Get Up'.
As for K-pop artists, PSY, BTS, J-Hope (BTS), and Tomorrow by Together have appeared on 'New Year's Rockin' Eve' so far. NewJeans proved its global status by becoming the first K-pop girl group and appearing on this program in the shortest period of time (1 year and 5 months) after debut among K-pop artists of both genders.
NewJeans performed very well on several global stages this year. Last August, they became the first K-pop girl group to perform on stage at Lollapalooza Chicago, a major American music festival. At the time, approximately 70,000 spectators responded by singing along, confirming NewJeans' explosive popularity to the extent that it was hard to believe that this was their first performance in the United States. Last month, NewJeans held an opening performance at the finals of the 'League of Legends (LoL) World Championship', the largest e-sports festival in the world, and became the first K-pop girl group to perform at the 'Billboard Music Awards (BBMAs)', one of the three major American music awards ceremonies. performed a performance.
'New Year's Rockin' Eve 2024' will be broadcast live on ABC starting at 8 PM on the 31st (local time, 10 AM on January 1, Korean time).
Kim Ji-won, Ten Asia reporter bella@tenasia.co.kr
