| Tickets to AT&T Playoff Playlist Live! toGo on Sale Monday, November 25 |
| ATLANTA – The College Football Playoff (CFP) today announced its star-studded lineup of recording artists who will perform at AT&T Playoff Playlist Live!, slated for January 18 and 19 at Atlanta’s award-winning State Farm Arena. The weekend’s initial needle-drop will take place on the AT&T Playoff Playlist Live! stage on Saturday, January 18 with performances by five-time GRAMMY® Award-winning rap icon Lil Wayne and GRAMMY®-nominated and award-winning hip-hop musician GloRilla. The second night, Sunday, January 19, will feature diamond-certified GRAMMY® nominated pop powerhouse Camila Cabello, British singer-songwriter and Apple Music’s Up Next Artist Myles Smith and Nashville-based singer-songwriter and social media sensation Knox. Tickets for each of the two concerts in the AT&T Playoff Playlist Live! series will go on sale on Monday, November 25 at 10 a.m. ET through Ticketmaster and CollegeFootballPlayoff.com/ppl. Additionally, the CFP revealed the artists who will perform at Allstate Championship Tailgate, which will kick off the game day festivities for the 2025 College Football Playoff National Championship. Allstate Championship Tailgate will take place outside Mercedes-Benz Stadium from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. ET in Georgia International Plaza and The Home Depot Backyard. Headlining the event will be award-winning musical acts on the Capital One Music Stage, featuring global superstar Kane Brown and iHeartCountry “On The Verge” artist Ashley Cooke. Fans will also enjoy interactive games, sponsor activations, concessions, live ESPN broadcasts and performances by each team’s marching band during the day. The 2025 College Football Playoff National Championship will take place on Monday, January 20 at 7:30 p.m. ET / 6:30 p.m. ET. The game will air live on ESPN. For additional information on the College Football Playoff, including AT&T Playoff Playlist Live!, Allstate Championship Tailgate and the 2025 CFP National Championship, visit CollegeFootballPlayoff.com. Join the social conversation by using the hashtags #CFBPlayoff, #ATTPlaylistLive and #ChampTailgate. -#CFBPlayoff- About the College Football Playoff The College Football Playoff (CFP) is the event that crowns the national champion in college football. The CFP Selection Committee ranks the top 25 teams at the end of the season. The 12 playoff participants consist of the five highest-ranked conference champions, plus the next seven highest-ranked teams. The four highest-ranked conference champions will be seeded one through four and receive a first-round bye. The schools seeded five through eight will host those seeded nine through 12 in first-round games. The quarterfinals and semifinals rotate annually among six bowl games – the Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic, Vrbo Fiesta Bowl, Capital One Orange Bowl, Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl, Rose Bowl Game presented by Prudential and the Allstate Sugar Bowl. This year’s quarterfinals will take place on December 31, 2024 and January 1, 2025, while the semifinals will be January 9-10, 2025. The College Football Playoff National Championship will be Monday, January 20, 2025, at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta. For additional information on the College Football Playoff, visit CollegeFootballPlayoff.com. |
| ABOUT THE ARTISTS: AT&T PLAYOFF PLAYLIST LIVE! LIL WAYNE Five-time GRAMMY® Award-winning rap icon, Young Money Entertainment founder, acclaimed author, and philanthropist, Lil Wayne has left an indelible tattoo on the culture. With album sales in excess of 100 million worldwide, his #1 debuts include eight-time platinum and three-time GRAMMY® Award-winning opus Tha Carter III in 2008, its five-time platinum, 2011 successor Tha Carter IV and Billboard #1 Tha Carter V in 2018, which earned the second-largest streaming week in history for an album, bulldozing the way for his thirteenth full-length album, Funeral, a year later. In 2022, Wayne earned his first RIAA Diamond certification with the smash record “Lollipop” (featurning Static Major), to surpass Elvis Presley with 186 entries on the Billboard Hot 100. Lil Wayne also owns and operates Young Money Entertainment, which has ignited the careers of two of the most successful artists ever: Drake and Nicki Minaj. CAMILA CABELLO Camila Cabello is a diamond-certified multi-GRAMMY® Award-nominated Cuban-born singer, songwriter, actress and activist. Her Billboard Hot 100 #1 hit “Havana” (featuring Young Thug) stands “as the most-streamed song of all-time by a female artist.” Cabello has garnered two Latin GRAMMY® Awards, five American Music Awards and a Billboard Music Award. In 2018, her debut album Camila bowed at #1 on the Billboard Top 200, eventually going platinum and receiving a GRAMMY® nomination for “Best Pop Vocal Album” as “Havana (Live)” picked up a nod for “Best Pop Solo Performance.” In 2019, she teamed up with Shawn Mendes for “Señorita,” which scored a GRAMMY® nomination for “Best Pop Duo/Group Performance”. Cabello’s sophomore full-length, Romance, ascended to platinum status, and, in April 2002, she released her third album, Familia, which was also nominated for a GRAMMY® and has racked up over 1.3 billion streams to date. She recently released the “Magic City” deluxe edition of her fourth studio album C, XOXO to widespread critical acclaim. GLORILLA From the north Memphis neighborhood of Frayser, Tennessee, GloRilla is a GRAMMY®-nominated musician and award-winning hip-hop artist whose three recent hits “TGIF,” “Yeah! Glo” and “Wanna Be” (featuring Megan Thee Stallion) simultaneously charted in the Top 40 of Billboard Hot, making her the first female hip-hop artist to achieve the feat in 2024. Earlier this year, she released the mixtape, Ehhthang Ehhthang, which has generated over 550 million streams to date in the United States alone. “Yeah Glo!” subsequently became her third #1 on Billboard’s Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart, following in the footsteps of her 2022 breakout single “F.N.F. (Let’s Go)” and “Tomorrow 2.” “FNF (Let’s Go)” sparked the viral #FNFChallenge and paved the way for the femme fatale to sign with Yo Gotti’s CMG label in partnership with Interscope Records. GloRilla’s swift rise earned her the 2022 BET HipHop Award for “Breakthrough Artist,” as well as GRAMMY®-nomination that same year. She recently achieved her second GRAMMY®-nomination for Best Rap Song with her hit “Yeah Glo!” MYLES SMITH British singer-songwriter Myles Smith’s rise has been meteoric. In 2024, he reached over one billion streams across his catalogue, with his breakout hit “Stargazing” becoming a global phenomenon. Named as Apple Music’s Up Next Artist and Deezer’s Next Artist, he recently sold out a 35-date North American tour and his upcoming 2025 UK tour already fully booked. Known for his blend of folk, Americana and pop, and a “DIY” approach that resonates deeply with fans, Smith has built a devoted following and earned critical acclaim. He recently released his eagerly-awaited seven-track EP, A Minute, which features the platinum-certified “Stargazing,” fan favorites “Whisper” and “Wait For You,” and current chart-climber “Nice To Meet You,” a lively yet introspective track that captures life’s twists and turns. KNOX Knox, an Ohio native with fan favorites such as “Sneakers” and “Not The 1975” charting on Top 40 radio and Top 10 Hot AC, has established himself as a showstopping live presence renowned for energetic, engaging, and enthralling performances. He logged time on the road with The BAND CAMINO and Quinn XCII, going on to eventually sell out two of his own headline tours. Knox racked up over 60 acoustic gigs for radio shows nationwide and a summer college tour while simultaneously emerging as a dynamic outlier equally comfortable on a bill with either Boys Like Girls or Camila Cabello. He ignited the stage at Lollapalooza, the 2024 MTV VMA Block Party, and the US Olympic Gymnastics Trials. Along the way, he garnered acclaim from the likes of Billboard and collaborated with everyone from Bilmuri, Rosie and HARDY. |
| ABOUT THE ARTISTS: ALLSTATE CHAMPIONSHIP TAILGATE KANE BROWN Named “the future of country music” (Billboard), multi-platinum-selling, award-winning singer/songwriter Kane Brown recently announced his fourth studio album and tour, The High Road. Slated for release January 24, 2025, the album will include his 12th #1 single “Miles On It” with Marshmello, as well as his current radio single, “Backseat Driver.” Brown’s self-titled, two-time platinum debut album (2016) topped the Billboard Top Country Albums chart for more than 13 weeks and included the Diamond Certified “Heaven,” and nine-time platinum “What Ifs”. Experiment (2018) hit #1 on the Billboard Top 200 – making him the first country artist in more than 24 years to top the chart with a sophomore album. The multi-song project Mixtape Vol. 1 earned an ACM Award nomination for Album of the Year (2021) and an ACM win for “Video of the Year.” With 12 chart-topping singles and internationally sold-out tours, Brown continues to expand the perception of country music and break musical boundaries. ASHLEY COOKE Still early in her journey, Big Loud/Back Blocks Music artist Ashley Cooke has already earned 352 million global streams, bolstered by chart-climbing hits like “Never Til Now” with Brett Young, debuts at the Ryman Auditorium and Grand Ole Opry, and appearances on ABC’s The Bachelorette and NBC’s TODAY, plus tours with Luke Bryan, Jordan Davis, Cole Swindell, Brett Young and more. Her sun-kissed blend of two-lane pop country is on full display in her 2023 debut album shot in the dark, earning widespread critical acclaim. Cooke earned a CMT Award in 2024 for Breakthrough Female Video of the Year, as well as an ACM nomination for New Female Artist of the Year. She has also been recognized as a MusicRow Discovery Artist of the Year and “Next Big Thing,” as well as iHeartCountry’s “On The Verge” artist. Her award-winning single “your place” notched her first career #1 song in country radio. |
| 2025 COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYOFF NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP EVENTS In addition to AT&T Playoff Playlist Live! and Allstate Championship Tailgate, fans can participate and experience the following public events in Houston leading up to the 2025 national championship game: Playoff Fan Central Georgia World Congress Center Building A Saturday, January 18 – Monday, January 20, 2025 Playoff Fan Central is an interactive experience that gives fans the opportunity to be a part of the College Football Playoff National Championship. The free three-day, family-friendly event will take place at the Georgia World Congress Center and will include games, youth sports clinics, pep rallies and exhibits celebrating college football and its rich history. Playoff Fan Central sponsor activations, Media Day presented by Great Clips (Saturday, January 18), special guest appearances and autograph signings. Media Day presented by Great Clips Georgia World Congress Center Building A Saturday, January 18, 2025(Cotton Bowl Champion 9-10 a.m. ET; Orange Bowl Champion 10:30-11:30 a.m. ET) Media Day presented by Great Clips will feature one-hour interview sessions with student-athletes and coaches from each of the College Football Playoff National Championship participating teams. The event is free and open to the public. Fans can listen in to interviews as over 1,000 media members will be present to preview the national championship game, including personalities from ESPN. Extra Yard for Teachers Summit Rialto Center for the Arts at Georgia State University Saturday, January 18, 2025 The Extra Yard for Teachers Summit is a gathering of teachers who come together for a relevant and high energy program featuring inspiring speakers who recognize the hard work of those working with students in PK-12 schools. The 2025 event will offer in-person (for local educators) and virtual (for teachers across the country) options to attend for free thanks to the support of AT&T and Dr Pepper, both Official Sponsors of the College Football Playoff. There will be a post-event reception for in-person attendees to enjoy food, drink and peer-to peer-networking. Past speakers and presenters have included Condoleezza Rice, former U.S. Secretary of State; Desmond Howard and Holly Rowe, ESPN college football talent; and GRAMMY® award-winners Leon Bridges and Lauren Daigle, and many more. The EYFT Summit also includes sessions to educate, entertain, and inspire attendees. Registration is open now at CFP-Foundation.org. Trophy Trot 5K and 10K Georgia International Plaza Sunday, January 19, 2025 The Trophy Trot is a family-friendly run/walk that offers a chance for fans to take part in national championship weekend. The 2025 edition of the Trophy Trot, which will feature both the 5K and 10K distances, will begin at 9 a.m. ET on Sunday, January 19 at Georgia International Plaza in the heart of downtown Atlanta. Each participant will receive a t-shirt and medal, and there will be opportunities to win tickets to the 2025 national championship game. All proceeds benefit Extra Yard for Teachers, the College Football Playoff Foundation’s primary platform. Registration for the Trophy Trot is open now at TrophyTrot.com. Taste of the Championship Georgia Aquarium Sunday, January 19, 2025Taste of the Championship is a premium dining experience on Sunday, January 19, the eve of the College Football Playoff National Championship. Held at the Georgia Aquarium, Taste of the Championship will offer attendees the opportunity to indulge in gourmet food and drink prepared by Atlanta-area chefs, as well as experience live entertainment and celebrity appearances. Proceeds from the event will support the College Football Playoff Foundation and its Extra Yard for Teachers platform. Tickets are on sale now at CollegeFootballPlayoff.com/taste. |
