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Apple Music announces the lineup for its New Year’s Eve livestreams, with DJ sets from Björk, Sweeney, Naina, Skepta, and Uncle Waffles.
Apple Music has announced the lineup for its Apple Music Live: New Year’s Eve livestream events to ring in 2025. The first, an audio-only livestream, will feature Björk performing a rare DJ set, with performances from Tim Sweeney and DJ Naina. Then, a second round of celebrations kicks off with a video stream featuring performances from Skepta and Uncle Waffles.
The audio-only sets were recorded at London’s The Cause, and will stream on December 31 via Apple Music Club and Apple Music 1 at 9 PM GMT. From 11 PM GMT onwards, the video stream kicks off with Skepta and Uncle Waffles, also recorded at The Cause. These performances will stream on Apple Music, Apple Music Club, and Apple Music 1.
Besides the two Apple Music Live: NYE sets, Apple Music is curating a 24-hour program on Apple Music Club and Apple Music 1 with special DJ mixes from artists including Justice, Rüfüs Du Sol, horsegiirL, John Summit, Jyoty, Kayan, DIDI Han, SPINALL, Skratch Bastid, and many more.
Apple Music’s New Year’s Eve celebration complements the swath of music-oriented programming to ring in the new year. Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve on ABC will see performances from Tinashe, Teddy Swims, Thomas Rhett, Cody Johnson, Lenny Kravitz, Alanis Morissette, Reneé Rapp, Blake Shelton, Luis Fonsi, and TLC. Meanwhile, CBS’ New Year’s Eve: Nashville’s Big Bash will feature Post Malone, Shaboozey, Lainey Wilson, and Luke Bryan.
The news of Apple Music’s lineup comes on the heels of Björk concluding a sound exhibition at Paris’ Centre Pompidou from November 20 to December 9. The exhibition, called “Natural Manifesto,” comprised a 3-minute-40-second audio piece that used AI software the recreate the sound of extinct animals, merging them with spoken word vocals.
Björk also recently launched Cornucopia: The Book, a physical companion piece to her Cornucopia tour, which saw the artist travel through several iterations of her art over the last five years.