Rihanna and Jay-Z will be the two headline acts in the popular music lineup for the London 2012 Olympic Games.

The pair will star in the BBC Radio 1 Hackney Weekend 2012 (June 23-24) a month before the Games, said organizers of the Olympics cultural festival, releasing the program at a news conference today. Comedians Stephen Fry and Tim Minchin will be among other entertainers cropping up in venues across Britain.

“There will be absolutely something for everyone: from Beethoven to Jay-Z, from Shakespeare to Mike Leigh,” Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt said at the news conference in the Tower of London. Leigh is a film director.

The festival organizers conveyed the size and scope of the event.

“The London 2012 Festival will be the biggest cultural celebration in our lifetime,” said Royal Opera House Chief Executive Tony Hall, who chairs the Cultural Olympiad board.

Hall said more than 18 million people had already taken part in 9,000 performances and almost as many workshops.

The U.K. is rolling out dozens of arts events around the Games, which run from July 27 to Aug. 12. Some have been long planned and some commissioned as part of a four-year, 97 million pound ($157 million) cultural program.

Other headliners of Hackney Weekend — set to draw an estimated 100,000 fans — are Florence + the Machine, Jack White, David Guetta and Tinie Tempah.

On Wednesday, TIME will release the TIME 100, the magazine’s list honoring the 100 most influential people in the world.

To celebrate the release of the list, five-time Grammy Award winner Rihanna and R&B star Raphael Saadiq will perform at this year’s eighth annual TIME 100 Gala at Jazz at Lincoln Center on April 24. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will be delivering the gala’s keynote address. Approximately 350 people attend the gala, including world leaders, politicians, business leaders, entertainers and philanthropists. Notable guests will include Chelsea Handler, Jeremy Lin, Governor Andrew Cuomo, Claire Danes, Matt Lauer, Tilda Swinton, Harvey Weinstein, Louis C.K. and Cardinal Dolan.

TIME will roll out three red carpets for the gala. You can also follow @TIME on Twitter for real-time updates, using the hashtag #time100. Don’t forget to check TIME.com/TIME100 on Wednesday, April 18 to find out who made this year’s list.

Let’s hope this year Rihanna will be featured on the list. :)

Rihanna will be making a return to Saturday Night Live next month! The 24-year-old singer will be the musical guest on the May 5 episode of SNL, which will be hosted by New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning.

Rihanna has appeared on the show twice before as a musical guest and also acted in two different Shy Ronnie skits alongside Andy Samberg. We hope that we get a third one!

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Rihanna will appear on Japanese TV show Music Station on April 6th. The last time she was in Japan was in February 2010. She’s also listed as one of the performers at Summer Sonic Festival in Tokyo and Osaka (August 18-19).

UK Navy! Jonathan Ross has said that Rihanna will be on his show, The Jonathan Ross Show, in about 4 or 5 weeks. RiRi will be performing at this year’s Brit Awards and celebrating her 24th birthday in London next month.

Watch Rihanna performing “Russian Roulette” at the show back in 2009.

Rihanna will perform on The X Factor USA next Thursday night, November 17th, and on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on November 21st, the day “Talk That Talk” will be released.

Rihanna is going to perform at the Donbass Arena on May 14th to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Ukrainian professional association football club, FC Shakhtar!

The preparation of the ceremony are made by Italian company K-events which held the opening of the Olympic Games in Turin. “The show will be a wonderful gift for our fans“, told Sergey Palkin, CEO of FC Shakhtar.

The grand show will start at 20:30 in Donetsk and will be broadcasted in other cities. Tickets for the ceremony can be already purchased at the Donbass Arena!

This will be the first Rihanna performance in this country!