The
theme
of
the
2025
Taipei
New
Year’s
Party
was
“Move,”
says
the
Department
of
Information
and
Tourism
(DOIT),
Taipei
City
Government.
People
in
large
numbers
came
to
enjoy
the
shows
at
the
four
large
Diversity
Stages,
and
the
main
stage
had
a
powerful
super-cast
of
performers
consisting
of
more
than
15
groupings
taking
the
stage
in
relay,
stirring
up
the
heat
at
the
venue
to
an
ever
higher
temperature.
The
opening
ceremony
saw
baseball’s
famed
Dragon
Beauties
cheerleading
squad
and
DJ
RayRay
team
up
with
an
exuberantly
lively
performance,
the
14
dragon
ladies
lighting
up
the
scene
with
their
dynamic
dance
moves.
The
popular
Papun
Band
performed
a
suite
of
their
classic
tunes,
including
I
Only
Wish
the
Most
Mediocre
Life,
and
collaborated
with
TRASH
for
the
first
time
to
present
Yong
Yuan
Bu
Hui
Tou
(“Never
Look
Back“).
Continuing
on
its
own,
TRASH
then
brought
more
boiling
rock
energy
to
the
stage
with
such
hits
as
Heavyhearted
Loser
and
LOVE.
In addition, Golden Melody queen Penny Tai touched the hearts of everyone in the audience with her soulful tunes, including What If We Still Stay Together and The Love You Want. Karencici and J.Sheon took turns on stage, and the two also combined to perform Hard to Say. The unique musical style of Faith Yang in Stars and other melodies brought passionate applause, and Sam Lee performed his classic love songs Hands Off and Devotion Love, one and all in the audience singing along in unison, enraptured. The group Cosmos People served up a riveting set pulsating with electric energy, delivering Ocean, Let’s Go Running Together, and other hits. HRC BEAST CREW SHADOW, the champion dance group of the city’s 2024 Metro Street Dance Competition, Olympic national breakdance athlete Sun Chen, and the City4 dance group also won acclaim from the audience with their scintillating dance routines
At the celebration’s mid-point a big specially planned surprise was unveiled, bringing delight and amazement to the audience, with singer YELLOW first conducting a video chat with Rozette, a popular Canadian vocal teacher, and then Rozette making a surprise appearance on the stage and the duo singing Shallow. Next, the Korean girl group Apink provided an exclusive Taipei performance, including Mr. Chu and LUV, of a number of their popular tracks, their charming repertoire inspiring ongoing audience screaming and shouting. Heavyweight headliner ENERGY, returning this year, performed Let Go, Friday Night, and other classics, which not only awakened classic memories but also ignited the party atmosphere to the highest temperature!
For the countdown to midnight, Taipei City Mayor Chiang Wan-an joined hands with four outstanding Taiwanese athletes, 2024 Paris Olympics badminton gold medalist Wang Chi-lin and boxing gold medalist Lin Yu-ting along with Premier12 baseball gold medalists Lee Kai-wei and Chen Kuan-wei from the Wei Chuan Dragons, with mascots Strong and Bravo the Bear also joining in. Mayor Chiang announced delivered a speech wishing everyone a Happy New Year, embracing the spirit of 2025 with “Everything is wonderful” Together with both online and offline audiences, he counted down to welcome the arrival of the new year.
The two much anticipated post-fireworks heavyweight finale performers were set to take the stage in turn, bringing the party atmosphere to repeated new climaxes. Gigi Leung recreated her performance of the opening song for her Taipei Arena concert last year, Spaghetti, creating a sense of boundless imagination and New Year hope, and followed this with tunes such as Coward that sketched out memories and evoked the good times of the past for all in attendance. The hot group 831 then hit the stage, powering out heart-thumping titles including East Side and Cheers!, the perfect conclusion for the 2025 Taipei New Year’s Party.
DOIT specially points out that this year’s gala once again demonstrated the cross-unit cooperation and execution capabilities of the Taipei City Government team, including Department of Health(DOH)、Taipei Metro Corporation(TMC)、Department of Transportation(DOT)、Police Department(PD)、Department of Environmental Protection(DEP)、Department of Social Welfare(DSW)、Fire Department(FD)、Department of Information and Tourism(DOIT), with manpower of 7,500 mobilized to ensure the smooth staging of the event, strengthening traffic dispersion and on-site order and maintenance, garbage removal and environmental restoration in peripheral areas, etc. This enabled full crowd dispersal to be completed before
2:10 o’clock in the morning after the New Year’s Party activities, and the systematic restoration of the original order and appearance of the city.
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