Every year hundreds of thousands of revelers descend upon the gleaming intersection of Seventh Avenue and Broadway in New York City to celebrate the turn of the new year.
Famously, Times Square plays host to musical performances, celebrity guests and 2,000 pounds of falling confetti. Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve began in 1974, and has hosted the ball drop party in Times Square ever since, but people were filling the square to ring in the new year for decades before Clark's televised party.
If you are lucky enough to be in Times Square this New Year's Eve, you can live out your wildest dreams as Taylor Swift takes center stage.
Can't make it? Just shake it off and catch the live broadcast on ABC.
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BONUS: 7 facts about the Times Square New Year's Eve ball