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East meets West. The New York Yankees will host the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 3 of the 2024 World Series on Monday (Oct. 28). The big game is set to air live on Fox at 8:08 p.m. ET/5:08 p.m. PT.

Taking the stage in their respective home cities, Ice Cube and Fat Joe were booked for pre-game sets for the 2024 MLB World Series. Fat Joe will hit up Game 3 at Yankee Stadium to perform custom versions of “New York” and “All the Way Up” on Monday. Ice Cube performed hits including “Bow Down” and “It Was a Good Day” during Saturday’s game.

Country music star Brad Paisley performed the national anthem ahead of the first game.

The Dodgers won the first two games of the series. Pre-game coverage for tonight’s game starts at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT on Fox.

Keep reading for how to watch details and more.

How to Watch & Stream the 2024 World Series in the U.S.

Because the World Series is airing on Fox, there are multiple ways to watch and stream the championship live and on-demand — and for free in most cases.

For starters, a TV antenna might be one of the easiest ways to watch local channels, but if you already have cable or satellite, check your local listings for channel information to watch the World Series.

If you don’t have access to live channels, streaming is the best choice. When it comes to sports, DirecTV Stream, Sling TV, Hulu + Live TV all have affordable streaming plans.

Want to stream the World Series for free? DirecTV Stream and Fubo TV offer free trials and discounted streaming plans. For example, DirecTV is currently offering a free trial for five days and $30 off streaming plans over two months ($15/month).

You can stream must-watch sports, entertainment and more, and record anything you miss with unlimited DVR. Plans start at $87/month for the most affordable subscription (90+ channels).

Interested in Fubo? Subscribe to Fubo Pro for $60/month — $20 off the regular price — and get access to 200 channels, plus a free trial for a week.

Additionally, Sling TV and Hulu + Live TV offer budget-friendly plans ranging from $20-$60 per month (and ExpressVPN allows you to stream from outside of the U.S.).

If you’re a diehard baseball fan, you don’t want to miss tonight’s game. You’ll also be able to watch MLB, NFL, NBA and more on platforms like DirecTV, Fubo and Sling TV.

How to Stream the World Series From Anywhere

Ratings for the 2024 World Series hit a seven-year high thanks in part to viewers in Japan tuning in to watch Dodgers’ star Shohei Ohtani. The 30-year-old athlete suffered a partially dislocated shoulder during Saturday’s game but he’ll be back on the field for Game 3. “He still has to go through the workout and swing the bat,” his manager Dave Roberts said ahead of the Dodgers’ workout at Yankee Stadium on Sunday. “But today feels better than yesterday, and our assumption is tomorrow’s going to feel better than today. That’s what I’m banking on.”

According to MLB.com, Game 1 of the series nabbed a combined 29.7 million viewers in the U.S. and Japan, the most of any series since 2017. Game 2 averaged 15.9 million viewers in Japan making it the country’s most-watched postseason game in history.

Whether you’re streaming from Japan or another location around the globe, a VPN makes it simple to access sports and more from outside of the U.S. (Game 3 of the World Series game airs on Tuesday at 9:08 a.m. in Japan).

To stream the World Series internationally, subscribe to ExpressVPN or another VPN service such as NordVPN. Once you sign up, you can stream sports, movies, TV series on various streaming platforms located in the U.S.  

Where to Buy Last-Minute Tickets to the 2024 World Series

There’s no shame in watching the World Series from home, but nothing compares to seeing the action in person! Be prepared to spend at least $700 though, and that’s on the lower end of the price spectrum.

According to Bleacher Report, tickets to World Series games cost $1,703 on average, the highest on record topping 2016’s World Series between the Chicago Cubs and Cleveland Guardians. It’s not uncommon for World Series tickets to be costly, especially with games in major cities such as New York and Los Angeles.

Last year’s World Series saw a similar spike prices and tickets skyrocketed to more than $3,000 in 2022, which was the second-highest rate in a decade, per CNBC.

World Series tickets are available at Stubhub, Vivid Seats, Gametime, Ticketmaster and Seat Geek (save $10 off eligible purchases of $250+ with code BILLBOARD10. Valid on first purchase only). You can also find World Series tickets on TicketNetwork (use code: Billboard150 to save $150 off $300 and BILLBOARD300 to save $300 off $1,000).

If the series stretches more than four games, ticket prices are likely to go up even higher.

Click the buy button above to purchase tickets to the 2024 World Series and here to stock up gear to wear before, during, and after the championship series.

World Series 2024 Schedule

Regardless of who wins, the 2024 World Series marks a milestone in a longstanding, bicoastal rivalry as the Yankees and Dodgers will face off in the World Series for the first time in 43 years. The Dodgers won the World Series back in 2020. The Yankees last won the World Series in 2009.

Per usual, the players will walk out to a pre-chosen playlist. The Dodgers’ walk-up playlist includes Future, Kendrick Lamar & Metro Boomin’s “Like That,” Latto’s “Put It On Da Floor,” “Stay” by Zedd, Jeezy’s “Soul Survivor,” Zumba by “Don Omar” and Mark Morrison’s “Return of the Mack.”

The Yankees’ walk-up list features Dr. Dre’s “Still Dre,” “White Horse” by Chris Stapleton, “Lean Back” by Terror Squad, Ozuna’s “Made in Qatar,” Led Zeppelin’s “Whole Lotta Love” and “New York State of Mind” by Jay-Z featuring Alicia Keys.  

The series returns to New York’s Yankee Stadium for Games 3 and 4 this week. The first two games were held at Dodgers Stadium.

See the 2024 World Series schedule below.

Game 1 – Yankees at Dodgers; Friday, Oct. 25

Game 2 – Yankees at Dodgers; Saturday, Oct. 26

Game 3 – Dodgers at Yankees; Monday, Oct. 28

Game 4 – Dodgers at Yankees; Tuesday, Oct. 29

Game 5 – Dodgers at Yankees; Wednesday, Oct. 30 (if necessary)

Game 6 – Yankees at Dodgers; Friday, Nov. 1 (if necessary)

Game 7 – Yankees at Dodgers; Saturday Nov. 2 (if necessary)

Even before Charli XCX dominated the summer with her acclaimed album brat, there was internal chatter about a joint arena tour with her and Troye Sivan. “I was pretty unsure how it would work, honestly,” recalls creative director Imogene Strauss, citing how unusual it is for two artists to alternate within the set list. “I was like, ‘This is going to be a challenge’ — and I think everyone felt that way.”

Ultimately, fusing two separate tours — Charli had debuted her solo brat shows during album release week at Primavera Sound in June while Sivan had embarked on his own European/U.K. headlining tour in support of his third album, Something To Give Each Other, in May — for a fall co-headlining run proved easier than expected. The Sweat tour kicked off Sept. 14 in Detroit and quickly became one of music’s hottest tickets, with sold-out dates at Madison Square Garden and Kia Forum with surprise guests including Lorde and Kesha, respectively. The trek concluded in Seattle on Oct. 23.

“It’s been an interesting morphing, shifting thing because of the scale, but also because of the collaboration element of it,” says Strauss, who has worked with Charli since 2019. Along with Jonny Kingsbury of Cour Design, the pair leaned heavily on lighting as a unifying element for the tour. “That ultimately became the thing that could tie the two shows together,” she says. Adds Kingsbury: “Traditionally with a pop artist, you would use bright key light and lots of downstage wash, but instead we light her very strobe-y, almost as if you were watching someone walk through a club in a movie throughout the entire show.”

Another early decision the creative team made was to enlist a Steadicam operator from the music video world and to hire a focus puller, which Strauss says is “expensive and specific, but I think it’s added this cinematic level that has been so positive.” (Plus, as Kingsbury says, the concept paired well with the brat aesthetic, “with [Charli] pushing the camera man aside, spitting on the catwalk and licking it up. All of that feels very brat.”)

Fittingly, Strauss’ favorite part of Sweat showcases that creative synergy: Midway through the show, as Sivan is wrapping up “Stud” on the main stage and Charli is gearing up for “365” from the scaffolding, the screens are turned off and Charli’s iconic “bumpin’ that” line blares from the speakers. “Musically, the worlds are so well tied together, and being able to express that visually… it’s just so cool to see the worlds collide in a way that really works,” she says. Both she and Kingsbury credit music director Mitch Schneider for “expertly” putting Charli and Sivan’s music together, ultimately laying the foundation for the entire show.

“I think most people were expecting this tour to be like, Troye plays a set and then Charli plays a set,” says Strauss. “But Troye and Charli and all of us involved were like, ‘If we’re gonna do this, it’s gonna be intertwined musically, visually, everything.”

As a result, Kingsbury says a lot of the feedback he’s been hearing about the tour was how polished the show was. Both he and Strauss say many arena tours today rely on “gags” or “interstitial content” to help with costume or staging transitions, whereas Sweat was “very dialed in,” says Kingsbury. “Everyone is always trying to go bigger and more ridiculous — we went the opposite direction.”

“[This tour] doesn’t take itself too seriously — people dance like crazy,” adds Strauss. “Turning an arena into a club was the No. 1 challenge, and when the arena was literally shaking, I was like, ‘OK, success.’”

A version of this story appears in the Oct. 26, 2024, issue of Billboard.

Beyoncé’s attorneys are once again asking federal regulators to register Blue Ivy Carter’s name as a trademark, more than 12 years after she and Jay-Z first sought to lock up the intellectual property rights to their daughter’s name.

In a motion filed last week at the federal trademark office, lawyers for Beyoncé’s company pushed back on a ruling earlier this year that consumers might confuse the name with another Blue Ivy: a single-store clothing boutique in Wisconsin that has used the name since before the young Carter was born.

The star’s lawyers say that ruling should be overturned, arguing that nobody is going to confuse Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s daughter — once dubbed the “most famous baby in the world” — with a small clothing shop.

“No reasonable consumer would ever suffer any form of confusion when encountering the [store’s] logo, which is used with one small shop in Fish Creek, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community with a population of approximately 997 people,” Beyoncé’s attorneys write. “Nor would a reasonable consumer encounter the ‘Blue Ivy Carter’ mark and conclude that the famous Carter family had teamed up with a small shop in rural Wisconsin to launch a clothing line.”

An attorney for Beyoncé’s company did not immediately return a request for comment on the status of the trademark case.

Just weeks after Blue Ivy was born in January 2012, Beyoncé’s BGK Trademark Holdings LLC applied at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to register her unusual name as a trademark. The move raised eyebrows at the time, as fans wondered if the couple was commercializing their daughter. But Jay-Z later told Vanity Fair that they merely wanted to prevent her name from being exploited by others.

“People wanted to make products based on our child’s name, and you don’t want anybody trying to benefit off your baby’s name,” he told the magazine in 2013. “It wasn’t for us to do anything; as you see, we haven’t done anything.”

More than 12 years later, however, Blue Ivy’s parents have yet to secure that trademark registration.

For years, the process was bogged down in legal disputes with a woman named Veronica Morales, who runs a lifestyle event planning company under the name “Blue Ivy” and secured her own trademark to it. In 2020, a tribunal at the USPTO rejected Morales’ complaints, ruling that the two sides’ respective offerings were “so dissimilar that confusion is unlikely.”

That ruling seemingly cleared the way for the “Blue Ivy Carter” trademark registration to finally be issued. But attorneys for BGK never moved that application forward, and eventually, the USPTO deemed the application abandoned last year.

In November 2023, Beyoncé’s attorneys applied yet again for the same trademark registration. Like previous efforts, however, the new application quickly hit a roadblock: In April, a trademark examiner issued a tentative ruling that the mark was “confusingly similar” to the name of the Wisconsin clothing store, which has owned a trademark registration on its “Blue Ivy” logo since 2011.

(The Wisconsin boutique itself is not actually involved in the case and has not filed an opposition to the Blue Ivy Carter trademark; instead, the USPTO simply cited the earlier trademark as a reason to deny Beyoncé’s application.)

It was this tentative denial that Beyoncé’s attorneys challenged last week, arguing that Americans know who Blue Ivy Carter is and would never think she was “somehow connected to a lovely boutique shop in a small town in rural Wisconsin.”

“Since the moment she was born, she has resided in the American public’s conscience and thus … the consuming public would associate her with a trademark bearing her name,” BGK’s lawyers write. “The parties each exist and thrive in their own separate worlds and can continue doing so into the future.”

Megan Thee Stallion and TWICE are teaming up for a whole lot more than just the “Mamushi” remix. The rapper unveiled a new limited edition cover of her Megan: Act II deluxe album on Monday (Oct. 28) that the K-pop girl group designed.

The digital album with the alternative cover is currently available on Megan’s webstore until Thursday, Oct. 31 at 11:59 p.m. ET.

TWICE is featured on the remix of Megan’s Billboard Hot 100 No. 36 hit “Mamushi,” originally featuring Yuki Chiba, from her latest deluxe album Megan: Act II that dropped on last Friday (Oct. 25). “Mamushi” recently earned Megan her fifth No. 1 on Billboard’s Rhythmic Airplay chart (dated Oct. 26). “TWICE IS TALKING THEIR SH-TTTT !!! Its so good #mamushiremix,” the rapper tweeted last week ahead of her deluxe album’s release, to which TWICE responded, “Can’t wait. Real Hot Girls.”

Can’t wait🩷🩷🩷🩷
Real Hot Girls https://t.co/hv1LQzFzbk

— TWICE (@JYPETWICE) October 24, 2024

Megan: Act II also features 12 new tracks, including collaborations with RM of BTS (“Neva Play”), Flo Milli (“Roc Steady”) and Spiritbox (“TYG”).

Megan released her self-titled third studio album on June 28 via Hot Girl Productions. The 18-track set features previously released singles “Cobra,” the Hot 100 No. 1 “Hiss,” “Boa” and “Mamushi,” and collaborations with Kyle Richh of 41 (“B.A.S.”), Yuki Chiba (“Mamushi”), GloRilla (“Accent”), UGK (“Paper Together”), Victoria Monét (“Spin”), and Big K.R.I.T. and Buddah Bless (“Miami Blue”). The set peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 and topped the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.

See the new cover art for Megan: Act II’s deluxe edition below: