Jason Aldean is set to perform his songs “Try That in a Small Town” and “How Far Does a Goodbye Go” as part of Fox Nation’s seventh annual Patriot Awards, which will be held Thursday (Nov. 6) at The Tilles Center for the Performing Arts in Brookville, N.Y. During the event, Erika Kirk, Turning Point USA CEO and widow of late conservative activist Charlie Kirk, will be honored with the inaugural Charlie Kirk legacy award.

Aldean and his wife, Brittany, will join Fox News Channel’s Jesse Watters to present Erika with the accolade, which in the years to follow will be given to “a recipient who embodies Charlie’s mission and his spirit of free speech, faith and family,” according to a release from Fox Nation.

The Patriot Awards will stream live on Fox Nation, with Fox New Channel’s Sean Hannity serving as master of ceremonies. The event will honor military veterans, first responders and more, with awards including the young patriot award, Benjamin Hall’s honor award, T2T Stephen Courage Siller award, salute to service award, most valuable patriot award, heroism award and patriot of the year award.  

Erika was named CEO of Turning Point USA following the death of her husband, who was shot and killed during a Turning Point USA event held at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10.

Aldean was among the artists who spoke out in the days after Kirk’s passing. The country singer had posted a photo on Instagram of the polarizing conservative activist with himself and wife Brittany, and praised Kirk in the caption.

Drake is almost definitely in his feelings following the conclusion of the 2025 World Series, which resulted in his home team losing to the Los Angeles Dodgers, who gladly took the opportunity to troll the rapper after their victory by using some Kendrick Lamar lyrics.

After triumphing over the Toronto Blue Jays in Game 7 on Sunday (Nov. 2), the Cali team shared a group photo of the players and staff wearing “World Series Champions” shirts. “THEY STILL NOT LIKE US,” the Dodgers wrote in the caption, quoting Dot’s famous Billboard Hot 100-topping diss track against Drizzy.

The ribbing comes after Drake spent much of the World Series trolling the L.A. team’s star player, Shohei Ohtani, on social media. Following Game 5, the Toronto native had shared a picture on his Instagram Story of the pitcher wearing a sweater vest and wrote, “ONE MORE!!!!!!!,” after which he posted a photo the Jays’ Trey Yesavage striking out Ohtani and gloating: “Savage already [on the way] to the dugout boss lol.”

Drake was then in attendance at Game 6 on Friday (Oct. 31), which ended with a Dodgers win. After the team won again two days later, securing the World Series trophy, Champagne Papi shared a diplomatic post on Instagram, writing, “Congrats to the Jays for a dream season and a legendary World Series fight!!!”

The Dodgers, however, weren’t the only ones eager to tease Drake after their big victory. Nike also trolled the rapper post-game by sharing a cinematic montage of the L.A. team set to “Not Like Us,” while Fox Sports posted an edited photo of Lamar driving off with the World Series trophy, leaving a disappointed-looking Drake in the dust.

The repeated use of “Not Like Us” to drag Drake definitely adds insult to injury, as the musician’s headline-grabbing defamation lawsuit against Universal Music Group over the song’s lyrics was recently dismissed by a judge. At the end of October, however, Drizzy filed an appeal to revive the case.

The track has been haunting Drake since a certain Compton icon dropped it in May 2024, quickly becoming a cultural phenomenon. This past February, Lamar won both song and record of the year at the Grammys for “Not Like Us,” which he performed on the world’s biggest stage just one week later at the 2025 Super Bowl.

CoComelon‘s new song “I Love My Bed” might be a bedtime anthem, but it’s no lullaby.

Billboard Family is exclusively premiering the animated music video for “I Love My Bed,” and “animated” is also a good adjective to describe the song, which is more upbeat than most bedtime music, aiming to make an often challenging part of the day fun — especially after Sunday’s daylight saving time switch.

“We designed ‘I Love My Bed’ as a true celebration of bedtime,” Joshua Embury, music director at Moonbug Entertainment, tells Billboard Family. “It’s not a traditional wind-down track; it’s high energy and exciting, acting as a great way to frame bedtime as a fun and positive event. We hope this anthem helps make bedtime more exciting for kids.”

In the new video, JJ goes on a big adventure, all from the comfort of his trusty bed. But this is no ordinary bed: It’s shaped like a boat, and it takes flight out of JJ’s room and into the skies, soaring through the clouds and out above the ocean before floating right back into JJ’s room where he’s fast asleep.

It’s all part of the “CoComelon Can Help” campaign to de-stress bedtime, which includes new music and CoComelon episodes, as well as the just-released Wiggle to Wind Down podcast, created in partnership with Headspace. Each 20-minute episode combines movement and calming stories, helping kids “release big energy before bed and drift off peacefully,” the podcast description promises. According to an online survey conducted by Moonbug Entertainment, 45% of parents say bedtime is one of their biggest daily challenges.

Also this week, the new live-action CoComelon series The Melon Patch will premiere a new “Bathtime” episode on Thursday centered on a key part of many families’ pre-bed routine.

AC/DC will continue their globe-hopping Power Up tour into 2026 with Monday morning’s (Nov. 3) announcement of a run of 21 more shows in South America and North America next year. The new dates for the nearly two-year-old tour by the legendary Australian hard rockers will kick off on Feb. 24 at  Estádio do MorumBIS in São Paulo, Brazil and include stops in Santiago, Chile on March 11 and Buenos Aires, Argentina on March 23 before winding down on April 7 in Mexico City at Estadio GNP Seguros.

The band will then take the spring off and be back on the road beginning July 11 in Charlotte, N.C., followed by shows in Columbus, Ohio, Madison, Wi., San Antonio, Denver, Las Vegas, San Francisco, Edmonton, Alberta, Vancouver, Atlanta, Houston, South Bend, Ind., St. Louis, Montreal, Toronto and East Rutherford, N.J. before winding down on Sept. 29 at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia.

Tickets for the upcoming run of 2026 shows will be on sale at 10 a.m. ET on Friday (Nov. 7); click here for details.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame act — singer Brian Johnson, guitarist Angus Young, rhythm guitarist Stevie Young, drummer Matt Laug and bassist Chris Chaney — kicked off the tour named for their 17th studio album in May 2024. The band’s next scheduled date is on Nov. 12 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne, Australia.

Check out the 2026 dates for AC/DC’s Power Up tour below.

*Denver, Las Vegas, and Philadelphia on sale at 12pm local time

Billboard’s Live Music Summit will be held in Los Angeles on Nov. 3. For tickets and more information, click here.

Drake’s music has received “billions of fraudulent streams” on Spotify, according to a new class action lawsuit that says the streaming giant turned a “blind eye” to bots and thus deprived fair pay to thousands of other artists.

In a case filed Sunday in Los Angeles federal court, attorneys for a rapper named RBX (Eric Dwayne Collins) say Spotify is “all too happy” to ignore billions of fake streams per month that falsely inflate some artist stats – and that Champagne Papi was one of the most-boosted artists.

“Billions of fraudulent streams have been generated with respect to songs of ‘the most streamed artist of all time,’ Aubrey Drake Graham, professionally known as Drake,” the rapper’s lawyers write. “But while the streaming fraud with respect to Drake’s songs may be one example, it does not stand alone.”

The lawsuit claims that Spotify’s policies against fake streams are “nothing more than window dressing” and that the company would prefer to do nothing because bots help the company’s bottom line.

“The more users (including fake users) Spotify has, the more advertisements it can sell, the more profits the company can report, all of which serves to increase the purported value delivered to shareholders,” RBX’s attorneys say.

And such “cheating” has real victims, the lawsuit says: “This mass-scale fraudulent streaming causes massive financial harm to legitimate artists, songwriters, producers and other rightsholders whose proportional share is decreased as a result of fraudulent stream inflation on Spotify’s platform.”

A spokesman for Spotify did not immediately return a request for comment. Drake was not named as a defendant in the lawsuit nor accused of any wrongdoing; a rep for the star did not return a request for comment.

Streaming fraud on platforms like Spotify, Apple Music and Amazon Music is a longstanding problem, made all the more challenging in recent years by advances in artificial intelligence and other sophisticated spoofing technologies. By some estimates, several percentage points of all streams are inauthentic – meaning billions of monthly plays. Since royalties on digital services are divvied up among rightsholders from a finite pie, such phony numbers siphon off revenue from legitimate streams.

In one extreme example, a North Carolina man was indicted last year on federal charges that he used AI to help create “hundreds of thousands” of songs and used thousands of bots to stream them millions of times. The feds say the scheme diverted over $1 million per year from real artists.

In his lawsuit on Sunday, RBX says he wants to force Spotify to take more aggressive action against such behavior on its platform, calling its current anti-fraud policies “inadequate at best.”

“Plaintiff brings this case to bring justice for his brother and sister creators and entertainers,” his lawyers write. “In doing so, Plaintiff gives a voice to more than one hundred thousand rightsholders who, among other things, may be unable or too afraid to challenge Spotify, a powerful force in the music business whose failure to act has caused significant problems and great financial harm.”

In technical terms, the lawsuit accuses Spotify of legal negligence, meaning the company caused harm to him and others by failing to take steps it should have taken. He also claims the company violated California state law against unfair competition.

The case is filed as a proposed class action, meaning RBX wants to represent thousands of other artists who have allegedly faced the same harm he did. But such other artists will only be drawn into the case if a judge grants approval – a difficult threshold to clear in any class action litigation.