When is Dancing with the Stars on? The show returns for week 2 with Viral Hits Night on Tuesday, September 22 at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT on ABC and Disney+. The two-hour event streams the next day on Hulu, giving viewers a clear same-week path whether they watch live or wait.
Julia Stiles and Teddy Swims
Julia Stiles and Ezra Sosa will dance a Tango to Teddy Swims' The Door, and Stiles said she picked it “because I just really like this song”. She also called it “a viral hit in my world” and added, “No, Teddy Swims got his career from this going viral, and it's a great song.”
That choice sets the tone for the episode: the songs were chosen to fit tracks that already traveled far beyond their original releases. For a Tuesday-night slot, that gives ABC and Disney+ a familiar playback model — watch live, then catch the full two-hour event on Hulu the next day.
14 song picks
Earlier this week, Dancing with the Stars released the set list for the September 22 show, and on Monday each remaining couple shared why they selected their songs on the official DWTS Instagram Stories. Fourteen remaining contestants are already attached to their music, which means the episode is built around selections made before the live broadcast rather than a last-minute reveal.
The list stretches across the cast: Jenna Dewan and Val Chmerkovskiy will dance a Jive to Katseye's Animal; Tatyana Ali and Jan Ravnik will Foxtrot to Billie Eilish's What Was I Made For; Guillermo Rodriguez and Witney Carson will do a Paso Doble to Rihanna's Where Have You Been; and Ciara Miller and Brandon Armstrong will Tango to Tinashe's No Broke Boys. Ezra French and Daniella Karagach are set for a Cha Cha to Flo Rida's Low, while Jackson Olson and Emma Slater will Foxtrot to Gracie Abrams' That's So True.
Monday selection gap
Connor Wood and Rylee Arnold will Tango to Sombr's 12 by 12; Giada De Laurentis and Alan Bernsten will Salsa to Becky G's Bella Ciao; Maura Higgins and Mark Ballas will Cha Cha to Earth, Wind & Fire's September; Amber Glen and Pasha Pashkov will Tango to Harrison's All the Things She Said; Taylor Hanson and Britt Stewart will Cha Cha to DNCE's Cake By the Ocean; Harry Shum Jr. and Jenna Johnson will dance a Viennese Waltz to the Goo Goo Dolls' Iris; and Tyler Cameron and Sharna Burgess will Salsa to The Kid Laroi's Girls.
The problem is simple: the lineup names 14 remaining contestants, but it does not give every couple's full reason for choosing a song in the same detail. That leaves the Monday social posts as the only place where the selection logic appears in first-person form, which makes the live show less about surprise music and more about how each pair handles a pre-set assignment in real time.
For viewers, the practical answer is already locked in: tune in Tuesday, September 22 at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT on ABC and Disney+, or wait for Hulu the next day if the live slot is out of reach. The schedule is set, the songs are set, and week 2 now belongs to whoever can turn a viral track into a cleaner score than the rest.
