Abracadabra opened the Best New Artist set with a short snippet of “May Ninth” before Boone began performing his song “Beautiful Things” in the in the audience, he approached Heidi Klum and Nikki Glaser who ripped off his tuxedo to reveal a light blue jumpsuit as he hit the track’s high notes. While performing his breakthrough single, which peaked at Number Two on the BillboardHot 100 and became thebiggest song of the year through the first halfof 2024, Boone snuck in his signature black flip from atop a piano.