New Year's Eve or Old Year's Night is observed on December 31, the final day of the Gregorian year, the day before New Year's Day. New Year's Eve is a separate observance from the observance of New Year's Day.
In modern practice, fireworks, music, alcoholic beverages (non-islamic) and other forms of noise making is part of the New Year's Eve celebration. New Year's Eve is celebrated with parties and social gatherings spanning the transition of the year at midnight.
In English-speaking countries, a few popular songs are associated with New Year's Eve and it is common to hear them on the radio these countries on, or shortly before, December 31.
- "Auld Lang Syne" (a Scottish folk song written by Robert Burns, the song most closely associated with the holiday)
- "Let's Start the New Year Right" from Holiday Inn by Bing Crosby.
- "It Was a Very Good Year" by Frank Sinatra.
- "It's Just Another New Year's Eve" by Barry Manilow.
- "Same Old Lang Syne" by Dan Fogelberg
- "Happy New Year" by ABBA
- "Imagine" by John Lennon
- "The New Year" by Death Cab For Cutie
- "A Long December" by Counting Crows
- "New Year's Eve" by The Walkmen
- "New Year's Day" by U2
- "What a Wonderful World" by Louis Armstrong
- "Maybe Baby (New Year's Day)" by Sugarland
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