‘Dick Clark’s New Years Rockin’ Eve’ Scores Best Ratings In 4 Years

ABC’s “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve With Ryan Seacrest” as soon as again bested the ball-dropping competitors, averaging 18.8 million viewers during its key 11:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. time slot according to Nielsen scores — up from last yr‘s 17.9 million viewers.

That made “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve,” produced by Dick Clark Prods., again the No. 1 leisure broadcast particular of New Years Eve. The telecast peaked at midnight, when more than 30 million viewers tuned in to usher in the New Year as the ball dropped in Times Square. That was up from 29 million viewers last yr.

According to ABC’s tabulation of Nielsen data, “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” beat CBS’ “New Year’s Eve Live: Nashville’s Big Bash” by +255% and also TGB’s “New Year’s Eve Live” by an undisclosed quantity.

All told, this yr’s “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” ran for practically eight hours — the longest in franchise historical past, since it launched as 1971 changed into 1972. The 2025-into-2026 marathon started at 8 p.m. ET and ended at 4 a.m. ET.

The event, hosted by Ryan Seacrest and Rita Ora from New York’s Times Square, featured 42 performers across New York, Las Vegas, Chicago, Puerto Rico and elsewhere. The present ended with a large fireworks show alongside the Las Vegas strip.

The event also aired live across more than iHeartRadio stations nationwide, which it said reached 2 million listeners P6+ on Wednesday— a +9% enhance from last yr.

According to Talkwalker Social Content Ratings, “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve With Ryan Seacrest 2026” primetime was the the No. 1 program across all of TV in complete interactions and video views on New Year’s Eve. Also, per Listen First, Busta Rhymes’ performance of “Look At Me Now” as a part of DJ Cassidy’s Pass The Mic Live! was the No. 1most watched clip across TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook for the day.

Highlights of the present included Diana Ross singing “I’m Coming Out,” “The Boss,” “Upside Down,” “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough,” and “Tomorrow.” Other visitors included Ciara, Little Big Town, Maren Morris and LE SSERAFIM.

The full event reached a mean of 34 Million complete viewers across the evening, with out of dwelling viewership dara still to come back.

Variety mum or dad company PMC owns Dick Clark Prods. in a three way partnership with Eldridge.