Pharrell Williams took to the pitcher’s mound at the New York Yankees baseball game earlier this week to throw the first pitch. For the occasion, Pharrell rocked his Billionaire Boys Club collaborative clothing line with the Yankees that just launched.

Billy Joel had a surprise for fans at his 82nd residency show at Madison Square Garden. The “Piano Man” brought out Olivia Rodrigo, who treated his fans with a performance of her hit single “Deja Vu”, a song that mentions Billy Joel. Olivia shared how she couldn’t have written “Deja Vu” without his influence. They also sang “Uptown Girl” together which was released almost 20 years before Olivia was even born.

The next generation of “Jeopardy!” is here. Michael Cera, Constance Wu and Ray Romano are among the famous contenders for the first-ever season of “Celebrity Jeopardy!” Actor B.J., Novak, Marvel star Simu Liu, comedian Iliza Shlesinger, “The Talk” host star Aisha Tyler, actor Patton Oswalt and the WNBA’s Candace Parker round out the cast. It will premiere Sept. 25 on ABC.

Adele’s video for her 2015 smash hit ‘Hello’ has reached 3 billion YouTube views. The black-and-white clip, which holds the record for being the quickest to reach the 1 billion mark, netted as many as 1.6 million views in a single hour during its peak.

Madonna’s daughter Lourdes Leon has dropped her debut single ‘Lock and Key’, under the moniker, Lolahol. The dance track was co-produced by experimental artist Eartheater, who also directed the music video, in which Lolahol ventures around New York City’s boroughs.

Nickelback has teased 10 tantalizing seconds of new music, and the internet is loving it. With the caption “Soon”, the group tweeted a clip of what may be the heaviest song they’ve ever written. The preview sent Twitter into overdrive, inspiring comments such as: “NICKELBACK IS DROPPING A HARDCORE EP”, and “100% here for a wall of death at a nickelback show”.

Kenny Chesney was joined onstage by long time friend Uncle Kracker at Ford Field in Detroit over the weekend. Together, they performed their 2004 hit duet ‘When the Sun Goes Down’, plus ‘Follow Me’ and ‘Drift Away’ .

Netflix has picked up “The Umbrella Academy” for a fourth, and final, season, which comes one month after the third season premiere of the comic-based drama.

Nichelle Nichols’ ashes are being blasted into space later this year. Also going are the remains of “Star Trek” legends Gene Roddenberry, his wife Majel Barrett, and James Doohan, who played Scotty.

The “Dancing with the Stars” cast rumors have begun. Your first alleged contestants are . . . TikTok star Charli D’Amelio and her mother Heidi. Remember, there are no teams on “Dancing with the Stars”, so they’ll be competing against each other. After 17 years on ABC, the upcoming, 31st season debuts on Disney+ on September 19th.

Jennifer Lopez allegedly cut dancers from an audition years ago because of their zodiac sign. Heather Morris said it’s all “hearsay”, but that she’s heard this from multiple people.

Joe Pesci is making a return to television to play Pete Davidson’s grandpa in the Peacock comedy series “Bupkis”. It also stars Edie Falco as Pete’s mom. No word when it’s coming out.

There was some “love of country” at the ACM Honors on Wednesday when Avril Lavigne paid tribute to fellow Canadian Shania Twain. Avril sang Shania’s “No One Needs to Know” . . . and someone in the crowd posted it online.

Sam Smith and Kim Petras have been working on new music together. The two of them posted a series of photos and videos on Thursday that showed them in the studio. In one of them, they were dancing together to their new song, “Unholy.”

Coldplay has been near the top of Billboard’s monthly Top Tours chart for nearly a year, and now the band has crossed the hurdle. The first few shows of the band’s European tour sold over 700,000 tickets. That puts them at #1 in the July Boxscore Report. Translated to dollars, that means they grossed more than $60 million for that short span of time. That’s an average of $6.1 million per concert.

Doja Cat is 70 days vape-free. She posted a somewhat comedic video online making the announcement. She wrote: “Are you proud of me?” She got her point across – that it hasn’t been easy and said she was ready to “peel her skin off for a smoke.”

Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady is expected to play in the team’s third and final preseason game Saturday against the Indianapolis Colts.