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Billy Joel drummed up 5.73M viewers on Sunday night for the CBS airing of his concert at Madison Square Garden.

Watching the preview clip of Back To Black, the new Amy Winehouse biopic, it is impossible to shake the image of the late singer watching it herself. Winehouse, someone unafraid to dismiss anything she saw as beneath her, would surely not accept this soft-soap depiction of her rise from jazz singer to international icon. Back To Black isn’t really for Amy Winehouse, though.

Selome Hailu “Billy Joel: The 100th — Live at Madison Square Garden” reached 5.7 million viewers on Sunday night. Calculated from Nielsen’s measurement of linear viewers on CBS and live streaming via Paramount+, this makes the Joel concert the fourth-most-watched special of 2024, ranking only behind the Oscars (19.5 million viewers on ABC), the Grammys (16.9 million viewers on CBS) and the Golden Globes (9.4 million viewers on CBS).

Tim Chan If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. Millions of people tuned into CBS to watch Billy Joel‘s Madison Square Garden concert over the weekend, and the special — celebrating his 100th consecutive performance at MSG — has spurred a rush of last-minute ticket sales for his remaining residency dates. Joel and Madison Square Garden Entertainment announced last year that the singer will end his record-breaking residency at the iconic New York venue this July.

concert of his residency at the famous venue — and he included a hat-tip to the correct local paper. As he belted out, “New York State of Mind,” he changed the lyrics to include a shout-out to The Post.The TV concert special taped in March but aired Sunday night on CBS. During the verse where the song traditionally invokes the New York Times and the Daily News, Joel instead sang, “Out of touch with the rhythm and blues/ But now I need a little give and take / Who, oh, oh whoa, who / The New York Post / Newsday too.” The song still mentioned the Times and Daily News in an earlier verse.

CBS just announced that the network will rebroadcast Billy Joel: The 100th – Live at Madison Square Garden special in its entirety this Friday, April 19, after Sunday’s presentation cut out in some parts of the country as the singer was in the middle of his signature hit “Piano Man.”

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Billy Joel fans will get to find out whether Davy is still in the Navy after all. A broadcast special of the singer in performance at Madison Square Garden was cut off abruptly in most time zones Sunday night during his climactic rendition of the signature hit “Piano Man,” and after considerable public outrage, CBS has committed to re-airing the entire program on Friday night.

Billy Joel,’s 100th concert at MSG, the screen cut to black in a number of markets just as the Rock Hall of Famer launched into his seminal hit “Piano Man.”Fans were understandably disappointed.“Someone royally screwed up. That’s an embarrassment,” an irate viewer shared.Thankfully, viewers that were robbed of singing along with Joel on CBS can still catch him at Madison Square Garden this year.The only issue is that the 74-year-old singer doesn’t have many more shows at the Knicks and Rangers home venue.Back in July 2023, Joel announced he would end his longstanding, record-breaking 150 show run at MSG in July 2024; now, there are just four more concerts remaining on his schedule.

@CBS wtf is this?! You cut off @billyjoel during Pianoman of all songs?! And then didn’t come back to it?!?! Now wonder network TV is a mess. Not ballin, not ballin at all,” one fan posted on X, formerly Twitter. Annoyed that “Billy Joel: The 100th Live at Madison Square Garden” got cut short during “Piano Man” last night? We get it.

Tim Chan If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. Billy Joel is bringing his iconic concert to the small screen with a new television special airing tonight on CBS. Titled “The 100th: Billy Joel at Madison Square Garden,” the performance airs live on CBS at 9 p.m.

Wackadoo! A new Bluey special is coming to Disney+ this week.The hugely popular kids’ TV show is releasing an extended episode called The Sign, in which the Heeler family put their house up for sale and also hit the road to attend a wedding. Bluey – famous for its catchphrases including “wackadoo”, “for real life” and “oh, biscuits!” – has become a global phenomenon with A-list fans including Eva Mendes, Rose Byrne and Billy Joel. Natalie Portman even lent her voice to The Whale episode.

Bruno Mars will play the first two concerts at Los Angeles’ Intuit Dome, the future home of the Los Angeles Clippers that is still under construction at the time of publication.This pair of gigs will be his first in L.A.

“The View” co-hosts and show staff were forced to flee their studio before Wednesday morning’s show after a grease fire broke out at “The Tamron Hall Show,” which shoots in the studio next door.No one was injured in the blaze, and “The View” (11 a.m./Ch. 7) carried on as usual once the dust (and smoke) settled.“Tamron Hall,” meanwhile, sent its audience home and aired a repeat in its 10 a.m.

ABC‘s The Tamron Hall Show had an unexpected incident on Wednesday (April 10).

Today’s episode of ABC‘s Tamron Hall show was scotched after a grease fire in an on-set kitchen caused a brief evacuation of the Upper West Side ABC studio where Hall tapes the show.

Olivia Rodrigo took the piano to sing her smash debut single “Drivers License” on Friday night — during the first of four sold-out shows at Madison Square Garden on her “Guts” World Tour — it was almost as if she had outgrown the song.Just three years ago — when the breakup ballad floored it to No. 1 in 2021, putting the pop ingenue on the fast track to three Grammys — Rodrigo had yet to graduate from Disney’s “High School Musical: The Musical: The Series.” So singing about the rite of passage of getting your driver’s license made her feel just like the 17-year-old that she was when she wrote, recorded and released her first of three chart-toppers.Flash forward to April 2024, and Rodrigo has made Disney a distant memory, leaving “High School Musical” in 2022, graduating from playing Radio City Music Hall on 2022’s “Sour” Tour to making her headlining debut at the big daddy of New York arenas.

In his first Los Angeles appearance in six years, Bruno Mars will be the grand-opening performer at Intuit Domein Inglewood, CA in August.

Jerry Seinfeld paid tribute to Billy Joel earlier this week (March 28) following Joel’s 100th show at Madison Square Gardens, New York.The artist has been performing at the venue for a residency once a month for the last decade, with each of his 100 shows being a sell-out. Joel’s first concert at Madison Square Gardens took place on December 14 1978 – every concert of his theirs has been a sell-out since.Speaking to the crowd, Seinfeld paid tribute to the artist saying: “I am from Long Island, like Billy is from Long Island, He captured how we all feel living in this particular part of the world. Long Island.

Billy Joel only has five concerts remaining at New York City’s Madison Square Garden before he wraps his record-smashing residency at the venue with his 150th concert on July 25.Until then, it isn’t too late to snatch last-minute tickets for his fifth-to-last MSG gig on Thursday, March 28.It won’t be cheap to see the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer live, though.At the time of publication, the best price we could find on last-minute seats was $304 before fees on Vivid Seats.Floor seats start at $362 before fees — not that much more to sit significantly closer to the stage.Still, while that may sound pricey, there’s an element of scarcity at play here.As we near Joel’s final concert at the Knicks’ home court, it’s likely prices will continue to rise. Therefore, this might be the best deal you see before Joel calls quits on his longstanding MSG stint.Want to rock out to “Only The Good Die Young,” “Uptown Girl,” “We Didn’t Start The Fire,” “Scenes From An Italian Restaurant,” “Movin’ Out” and Joel’s 2024 single “Turn The Lights Back On” live?You’re in the right place, Piano Men and Uptown Girls.We’ve got everything you need to know and more about Billy Joel’s March 28 Madison Square Garden concert below.All prices listed above are subject to fluctuation.A complete breakdown of all the best prices by section at Madison Square Garden for Joel’ s March 28 concert can be found here:(Note: The New York Post confirmed all above prices at the publication time. All prices are in US dollars, subject to fluctuation and include additional fees at checkout.)Vivid Seats is a verified secondary market ticketing platform, and prices may be higher or lower than face value, depending on demand.

he told Newsday as his record-breaking residency at the storied Midtown venue comes to an end. The choice initially concerned his team, who thought his stardom would cause a “big megillah.”But Joel said his commute has been uneventful.“People will sometimes look at me on the railroad and think, ‘Look at this guy, trying to look like Billy Joel.

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