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For New Year's Eve 2025, Atlanta officials replaced the traditional Peach Drop with a drone and fireworks show designed to be visible across the entire city — transforming the celebration from a downtown gathering into a citywide spectacle.
Mayor Dickens announced the return of the Peach Drop to Underground Atlanta for New Year's Eve 2024, with Big Boi headlining, Neon Trees and Res performing, and a giant peach descending from a 100-foot tower at midnight.
In December 2023, Mayor Andre Dickens announced that Atlanta would not host the Peach Drop for New Year's Eve — continuing a pattern of cancellations that had disrupted the 34-year-old tradition more years than not since 2019.
In November 2019, Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced that Atlanta would not hold the Peach Drop for New Year's Eve — the first cancellation in the event's 30-year history, driven by the sale of Underground Atlanta and logistical complications.
The 27th annual Peach Drop brought an estimated 80,000 people to Underground Atlanta on New Year's Eve 2015, with T.I. and Sister Hazel headlining a celebration anchored by an 800-pound fiberglass peach dropping from a tower at midnight.
