Earlier this week, Jay-Z and Bono revealed that they collaborated on a track for Haiti, and now Jay has joined a list of a-list artists who will perform at a telethon, dubbed "Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief."
In addition to Jay and Bono, artists such as Justin Timberlake, Coldplay, Alicia Kys, Bruce Springsteen, and others will grace the MTV-sponsored show set to take place on Friday night (January 22).
According to MTV, the event will be highlighted by several one-of-a-kind collaborations, including a hookup between U2's Bono and The Edge with Jay-Z and Rihanna in London, and a jam featuring Kid Rock, Keith Urban and Sheryl Crow in Los Angeles. Each collabo, as well as the night's performances, will be available for download on iTunes for 99 cents the next day.
In New York, Jennifer Hudson, Mary J. Blige, Shakira and Sting will join Wyclef Jean and Springsteen; while the Los Angeles show will feature performances from Keys, Christina Aguilera, Dave Matthews, John Legend, Timberlake, Stevie Wonder and Taylor Swift.
"Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief" is a two-hour special, which will be broadcast from New York, London, Los Angeles and Haiti ... and will air commercial-free across ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, CNN, BET, the CW, HBO, MTV, VH1 and CMT on Friday at 8 p.m. ET/PT.
Additionally, it will also air on PBS, TNT, Showtime, Comedy Central, Bravo, E! Entertainment Network, National Geographic Channel, Oxygen, G4, Centric, Current TV, Fuse, MLB Network, Epix, Palladia, SoapNet, Style, Discovery Health and Planet Green, as well as Canada's CTV, CBC Television, Global Television and MuchMusic. And internationally on BET International, CNN International, National Geographic and MTV Networks International, available in 640 million homes worldwide.
All donations will directly benefit Oxfam America, Partners in Health, Red Cross, UNICEF and Wyclef's Yele Haiti Foundation.
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