By Jimmy Carlton Sportswriter Published Feb 01, 2017 at 2:33 PM

Billy Joel is only playing one show in Wisconsin this year, and no, it's not at Summerfest. The legendary musician will be on Titletown's not-so-frozen tundra in June.

The Packers and Live Nation announced on Wednesday that Joel will perform at Lambeau Field on Saturday, June 17. The summer performance will be Joel’s first show in Green Bay and his only live concert appearance in Wisconsin in 2017.

In appreciation of the artist and his many fans, Joel will be made an official shareholder of the Green Bay Packers, according to the team.

"We’re proud to welcome Billy Joel to Lambeau Field and we’re excited for Green Bay to host such a celebrated musician and iconic performer," said Packers President/CEO Mark Murphy in a statement. "We’re looking forward to seeing Billy put on an extraordinary show for fans of all ages against the storied backdrop of Lambeau Field."

With a capacity of more than 81,000, Lambeau is the largest venue in the state, though only about 45,000 seats will be available for the concert. According to Live Nation, all seating is reserved, including on the field, and the stage will be in the stadium's south end. The event is rain or shine, and there will not be a second show if it sells out. In June of 2015, country stars Kenny Chesney and Jason Aldean attracted 53,363 fans to the last concert held at Lambeau Field.

Joel, 67, has just eight stadium dates scheduled on his tour for this summer, and Lambeau is the only NFL venue. The others are at baseball parks, including Wrigley Field in Chicago on Aug. 11, where he will play for the fourth straight year.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer also became a Green Bay Packers shareholder, as Murphy and Live Nation Chicago's Jason Wright reportedly revealed a stock certificate with Joel's name on it during the concert announcement in the Lambeau Field Atrium.

Tickets for the general public go on sale on Friday, Feb. 10 at 10 a.m. via TicketMaster.com or by calling (800) 745-3000. American Express Card Members can purchase tickets before the general public, beginning Monday, Feb. 6, at 10 a.m. through Thursday, Feb. 9, at 10 p.m.

Joel is among the most popular recording artists in history and still one of the biggest concert draws in the world, with an impressive run of consecutive sold-out stadium shows and concert arenas. He's sold 150 million records over the past quarter century, scoring 33 consecutive Top 40 hits, and is the sixth-best-selling recording artist of all time (third-best solo).

In 2016, the Library of Congress selected "Piano Man" for preservation in the National Recording Registry for its "cultural, historic, and artistic significance." Joel has received both the prestigious Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song and the once-in-a-century ASCAP Centennial Award. He's won six Grammy Awards, a Tony Award for the Broadway musical ballad "Movin' Out" and has been inducted into the Songwriter's Hall of Fame. 

Here's hoping Joel plays one of his Packers-themed hits at Lambeau, such as "Titletown Girl," "Green Bay State of Mind," "We Didn't Run the Table," "Only the Good Retire Twice" and "Packer Man."

Jimmy Carlton Sportswriter

Born in Milwaukee but a product of Shorewood High School (go ‘Hounds!) and Northwestern University (go ‘Cats!), Jimmy never knew the schoolboy bliss of cheering for a winning football, basketball or baseball team. So he ditched being a fan in order to cover sports professionally - occasionally objectively, always passionately. He's lived in Chicago, New York and Dallas, but now resides again in his beloved Brew City and is an ardent attacker of the notorious Milwaukee Inferiority Complex.

After interning at print publications like Birds and Blooms (official motto: "America's #1 backyard birding and gardening magazine!"), Sports Illustrated (unofficial motto: "Subscribe and save up to 90% off the cover price!") and The Dallas Morning News (a newspaper!), Jimmy worked for web outlets like CBSSports.com, where he was a Packers beat reporter, and FOX Sports Wisconsin, where he managed digital content. He's a proponent and frequent user of em dashes, parenthetical asides, descriptive appositives and, really, anything that makes his sentences longer and more needlessly complex.

Jimmy appreciates references to late '90s Brewers and Bucks players and is the curator of the unofficial John Jaha Hall of Fame. He also enjoys running, biking and soccer, but isn't too annoying about them. He writes about sports - both mainstream and unconventional - and non-sports, including history, music, food, art and even golf (just kidding!), and welcomes reader suggestions for off-the-beaten-path story ideas.