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Times Square's Grand New Year's Eve Celebration (Source: United Press)
On New Year's Eve, about 1 million people gathered in Times Square in New York City to participate in a grand New Year's Eve celebration to welcome the arrival of 2020.
According to the United Press Agency reported on January 1, New York Times Square held the 2020 New Year's Eve celebration as scheduled. At 6 p.m. local time on December 31, 2019, the celebration began and the iconic crystal ball was raised. At the last minute before the arrival of the New Year, the countdown is entered, and when the midnight bell rings, the crystal ball slowly falls with fireworks, New Year colored paper and the countdown to celebrate the arrival of the new year.
Times Square New Year's Eve (Source: United Press)
American actor Jonathan Bennett, host of the 2020 New Year's Eve gala, said more than a billion people around the world watched the New Year celebrations.
Bennett said that the crystal ball prepared this time is 12 feet (about 3.7 meters) in diameter, equipped with 32,000 LED lights, and weighs more than 11,000 pounds (about 5,000 kilograms), which is redesigned this year and is also the largest crystal ball in the world. The Crystal Ball Drop Ceremony, which began in 1907, is one of the most famous New Year's Eve ceremonies in the world, attracting millions of people from all over the world every year.
A month before the New Year's Eve, Times Square erected a number of wishing walls inviting people to write down their New Year and dreams on colorful pieces of paper that spilled down the streets at the moment of entering the New Year.
Korean super band BTS performs at the New Year's Eve celebration. (Source: United Press)
That night, South Korean super band BTS, Canadian singer Alanis Morissette and rap artist Post Malone contributed performances. The last song before New Year's Eve was John Lennon's "Imagination" sung by the X Ambassadors before midnight. (Overseas Network/AizaDa)
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