Taylor Swift has made New York City her home since March, and she will help the city she loves ring in the new year with a headlining performance for Ryan Seacreast's "New Year's Rockin' Eve" on ABC.
"I'm so excited," Swift announced on "Good Morning America" on Oct. 27. "It's going to be so great to be back here for New Year's."
The "Shake It Off" singer last performed at the Times Square festivities on the eve of 2013. She performed her hit songs "I Knew You Were Trouble" and "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together."
"Each year 'New Year's Rockin' Eve' continues its iconic legacy by delivering incredible performances from the year's hottest artists, and this year is no exception," the event's host and executive producer Ryan Seacrest said in a statement. "We already have secured an unprecedented number of music acts, culminating with a Times Square performance by Taylor, the biggest superstar in music today."
Swift dropped her new album "1989" on Monday, and her New York experiences helped shape the all-pop album. New York City also named her its welcome ambassador, a title fit for the "Welcome to New York" singer.
"New York has been an important landscape and location for the story of my life in the last couple of years. I dreamt about moving to New York. I obsessed over moving to New York and then I did it," Swift told ABC News. "And the inspiration that I found in that city is kind of hard to describe and hard to compare to any other force of inspiration I've ever experienced in my life. It's like an electric city."
"Shake It Off" sits at No. 1 on the iTunes Top 100 songs list. Swift released her new album shortly before midnight on Oct. 26.
