Tatsuya Endo’s SPY×FAMILY Vol. 17 debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard Japan Book Hot 100, on the list released Apr. 9.

The latest volume of the hit comedy action series about a makeshift family consisting of a spy, an assassin, and a mind-reading child claims the top spot after dominating brick-and-mortar sales and e-books, while also scoring points on the social media and e-commerce (EC) metrics.

ONE PIECE Vol. 114 climbs 4-2 after the digital edition became available on April 3, keeping the title inside the top 10 for a fifth consecutive week. Similarly, Wanpanman (One-Punch Man) Vol. 36 soared 84-4 after the release of its digital version.

Yukinobu Tatsu’s Dandadan Vol. 23 debuts at No. 3, placing No. 3 in brick-and-mortar and No. 4 in e-books.

Outside the top 10, Leiya Seguchi’s Second Photo Book “Lei” tops the EC metric to bow at No. 15. The latest volume of Oni no Hanayome (The Ogre’s Bride) — whose live-action film adaptation opened Mar. 27 in Japanese cinemas — holds inside the top 20 for a second straight week. The series is also set to receive a TV anime adaptation from July.

The Billboard Japan Book Hot 100 is a comprehensive chart combining physical sales, e-books, library loans, subscription data and social media activity. Check out the top 10 titles on this week’s list below, tracking the period from Mar. 30 to Apr. 5.

(Numbers in parentheses indicate the title’s metric placements for brick-and-mortar, EC, e-books, subscriptions, and social media, top 20 only. English title given if translations or adaptations exist.)

1. SPY×FAMILY Vol. 17, Tatsuya Endo (1/–/1/–/–)

2. ONE PIECE Vol. 114, Eiichiro Oda (4/–/2/–/–)

3. Dandadan Vol. 23, Yukinobu Tatsu (3/–/4/–/–)

4. Wanpanman (One-Punch Man) Vol. 36, ONE, Yusuke Murata (–/–/3/–/–)

5. Futsutsuka na Akujo de wa Gozaimasu ga (Though I Am an Inept Villainess) Vol. 10, Ei Ohitsuji, Satsuki Nakamura, Yuki Kana (6/–/5/–/–)

6. Natsume Yujin-cho (Natsume’s Book of Friends) Vol. 33, Yuki Midorikawa (2/–/15/–/–)

7. Mushikaburi Hime (Bibliophile Princess) Vol. 11, Yui Kikuta, Yui, Satsuki Shiina (7/–/9/–/–)

8. Danzai sareta Akuyaku Reijo wa, Gyakko shite Kanpekina Akujo wo Mezasu (The Condemned Villainess Goes Back in Time and Aims to Become the Ultimate Villain) @COMIC Vol. 8, Rat Kitaguni (–/–/6/–/–)

9. Keiyaku-kon shita Aite ga Oni Saisho deshita ga, Konotabi Saisho-shitsu Sennin Hosa-kan ni Ninmei sareta Jimi Bukan (Hensou-chu) wa Watashi desu. Vol. 3, Nagi Okawa, Seven Tsukishiro (–/–/7/–/–)

10. Akane-banashi Vol. 21, Takamasa Moue, Yuki Suenaga (15/–/11/–/–)

Tyga is heading to Hollywood. Luckily for the “Rack City” rapper, it’s not a far ride from Calabasas, Calif., to the silver screen.

The 36-year-old (born Michael Ray Stevenson) is set to make his feature film debut starring in the coming-of-age drama Baby, You’re a Star. In addition to taking on a lead role, Tyga will serve as a producer and cowriter for the movie. Decorated music video director Arrad Rahgoshay is slated to direct the movie musical.

Tyga will star alongside Outer Banks‘ Madison Bailey, Ashton Sanders, Mike Epps, Apollonia, Clifton Powell, Patrick Cage and David Alan Grier.

The film’s storyline hits home with Tyga, which will follow an aspiring music artst determined to overcome life’s obstacles to reach stardom.

“Blending music, nostalgia and raw emotional stakes, the film aims to capture the spirit of a generation on the brink of cultural change,” a press release for Baby, You’re a Star states. Production for the movie is currently underway in Portland, Ore.

Tyga has been a rap staple for nearly 15 years since his breakout Billboard Hot 100 top 10 hit “Rack City,” which reached No. 7 on the chart in early 2012. Among his 34 Hot 100 entries, Tyga’s notched another pair of top 10 anthems in his career with “Taste” alongside Offset (No. 8 peak) in 2018 and hopping on Chris Brown’s “Loyal” in 2014 (No. 9 peak).

T-Raww’s laid low for the first quarter of 2026 on the music side. The California native’s most recent album, NSFW, arrived in February 2025 with assists from Cher, Big Sean, Flo Milli, Lil Wayne, Shenseea, Lil Tjay and Ty Dolla $ign.

Attorneys for Sean “Diddy” Combs and prosecutors battled before a federal appeals court Thursday (April 9) as he sought to overturn his 50-month sentence, with judges grilling both sides over “exceptionally difficult” legal questions about how much time the star deserved.

Combs was acquitted in a June verdict on racketeering (RICO) and sex trafficking charges over claims that he forced girlfriends to have sex with male prostitutes at sex parties called “freak offs.” But he was still convicted of two lesser counts of interstate prostitution, resulting in his lengthy prison sentence.

During a heated hearing at the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, Diddy’s attorney Alexandra Shapiro told a panel of three appellate judges that her client had been unfairly sentenced by a trial judge who had disregarded the jury’s decision to largely clear him.

“Their unanimous verdict was not guilty on the most serious charges … but [they’re] what drove the sentence,” Shapiro said. “This was the highest sentence ever for this type of charge.”

Thursday’s hearing centered on the legal concept of acquitted conduct — meaning the elements of the case against Diddy that jurors had rejected in their verdict. Federal sentencing officials recently passed new guidelines instructing courts to be more careful not to impose harsh sentences based on such conduct, saying at the time that “not guilty means not guilty.”

Diddy’s attorneys say Judge Arun Subramanian violated those new rules, handing down a draconian term that ignored the jury’s verdict rejecting the RICO and sex trafficking counts. Prosecutors say the judge did enough to comply with them and was allowed to consider much of the disputed case.

As the court grappled with those “exceptionally difficult” novel legal questions, both sides faced withering questions from the judges. Judge William J. Nardini interrupted Shapiro almost immediately, suggesting the court was not even able to consider the issue for procedural reasons. Judge Sarah A. L. Merriam later noted that Subramanian had acknowledged the acquittals, and asked why that wasn’t enough.

“Obviously the judge acknowledged that he’d been acquitted, but that’s not enough,” Shapiro said. “That’s just make-weight.” Nardini quickly interjected: “You mean he didn’t mean it? Or he wasn’t thinking it? What does ‘make-weight’ mean? That’s a rather disparaging characterization.” Shapiro quickly clarified that she had not intended to insult the trial judge.

Arguing for prosecutors was Christy Slavik, who said Subramanian had taken the correct approach to acquitted conduct. But she, too, faced sharp questions from the panel — including from Judge M. Miller Baker, who said the prostitution claims had been nothing more than a “sideshow” to the RICO case during the actual trial.

“Why shouldn’t we hold you to the way you prosecuted the case?” Baker asked. “You went to the jury and said this man did all these terrible things for purposes of the RICO conspiracy, for the purposes of sex trafficking, and they acquitted him! And now you want us to rely on all this acquitted conduct that was presumably rejected?”

Slavik fired back that Subramanian had instead relied on “admitted conduct” — citing the Diddy team’s much-discussed defense strategy of openly admitting physical abuse: “The defendant admitted from the outset of the trial that the defendant engaged in horrific domestic violence. All of that conduct was admitted.”

Slavik urged the panel to take a narrow approach to the new rules on acquitted conduct, saying judges could still consider such actions if it’s “relevant” to the actual convicted charges. But that suggestion also drew blowback from the judges.

“What your argument would lead to is that there’s no such thing as acquitted conduct,” Nardini said. “Tell me why I’m wrong about that.”

Though Thursday’s arguments focused entirely on sentencing, Combs is also appealing his underlying convictions, including by arguing that the “freakoffs” at the core of the case were merely amateur pornographic movie shoots that are protected by the First Amendment.

But such arguments are typically far harder to win at appeals courts, which are less likely to overturn a jury’s verdict than a judge’s ruling. And Diddy’s appeal has clearly been focused on sentencing since it was first filed in December.

Following Thursday’s hearing, the Second Circuit will take the case into consideration and issue a ruling at some point in the months ahead. Appeals in federal court can often take well over a year to reach a ruling, but Diddy’s case has been granted expedited status that should result in a faster decision.

If you know two things about guitarist/singer Tom DeLonge you are aware that he has been in and out of Blink-182 several times over the years and that he is super obsessed with aliens and UFOs. So much so that according to his former bandmate in side project Angels & Airwaves, current Foo Fighters drummer Ilan Rubin, he is prone to casually busting out alien autopsy pics at the weirdest times.

Including, it turns out, at Rubin’s 2020 wedding.

In a recent interview on the Go With Elmo podcast, Rubin told a mind-blowing story about DeLonge sharing a picture of what he said was a deceased E.T. to the drummer and another one of his former bosses, Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor.

“When my wife and I got married, we finish the ceremony. Everyone kind of goes to the reception or whatever, and she and I go up to the suite for her to kind of get out of the wedding dress and having some champagne,” Rubin told host Elmo Lovano earlier this week. “And we finally get down to the reception, where the first two people I see are Tom and Trent.”

Noting that DeLonge is a “really tall guy” and that at 6’4″ he’s hovering over the 5’7″ Reznor, Rubin said he noticed that DeLonge has his phone out. “I know how this goes: ‘Hey, check this out.’ And I’m thinking, ‘What is he possibly showing him right now?,’” Rubin said, aware that DeLonge loves to share his unique outer space knowledge with friends. “Then I go straight up to them like, ‘Hey guys, how’s it going?’ Tom’s like, ‘Dude, congratulations. I’ll see you in a bit, I’m going to get a drink.’”

Rubin then asked Reznor what DeLonge had shared with him. “He’s like, ‘that dude just showed me a dead alien,’” Reznor confided. “Nobody else could conduct themselves in that way and it be normal, but he’s [Tom’s] just so unapologetically him. It’s infectious. It’s great. I’ll always remember that.”

As Rubin said, the story would be out of this world if it were about anyone else, but DeLonge has a long fascination with all things space and extraterrestrial, including his founding of the To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science, dedicated to studying UFOs. DeLonge described what he said was his first contact with aliens in a Papermag interview in 2015, where he said that during a camping trip at a secret base on the flight path to the legendary Area 51 in Nevada, he felt a “strange phenomenon” and thought, “OK, they’re at our campsite, they’re not here to hurt us, they’re talking about shit, but I can’t make out what they’re saying. But they’re working on something.”

In 2020, the Pentagon declassified three videos allegedly showing unexplained aerial phenomenon that DeLonge had released through TTSA in 2017. Also in 2017, DeLonge received the UFO Researcher of the Year award from OpenMinds.tv.

Watch Rubin tell his wedding reception alien encounter story below.

The Prince estate has reached a settlement with singer Apollonia, ending their dispute over who owns legal rights to the name made famous by the movie Purple Rain.

After years of fighting, Prince’s estate and Apollonia (born Patty Kotero) both withdrew their dueling trademark cases against each other on Wednesday (April 8). Apollonia’s lawyer, Daniel Cislo, told Billboard that the matter has been confidentially settled.

“Apollonia is very happy with the results, and that the parties can continue to honor the legacy of Prince and his musical genius,” said Cislo. “In a time of so much conflict, it is very good to see people coming together to resolve their dispute.”

Lawyers for the Prince estate did not return a request for comment on the resolution.

The dispute dates back to 2018, two years after Prince’s sudden death by fentanyl overdose. The star’s estate filed paperwork to trademark “Apollonia 6,” the name of a Prince-founded girl group led by Apollonia, but were rejected because Apollonia herself already owned the intellectual property.

The Prince estate petitioned the U.S. trademark office to cancel Apollonia’s ownership, leading to years of legal proceedings between the two sides. Apollonia then moved the fighting to federal court last summer with a lawsuit accusing the estate of trying to “steal” her name.

Prince’s estate called the lawsuit “frivolous” and said its goal was to peacefully co-exist with Apollonia. A hearing on the estate’s motion to dismiss was coming up this Friday (April 10) in Los Angeles before the settlement was reached.

The estate has now dropped its trademark cancellation petition, which was one of the terms sought by Apollonia in her lawsuit. It’s not clear whether the settlement also includes any financial payments or further ground rules for the ownership of the Apollonia name going forward.

Apollonia rose to fame playing a character of the same name in Purple Rain. Her song from the 1984 movie, “Sex Shooter,” spent six weeks on the Billboard Hot 100. In the years since, Apollonia has used the moniker for music releases, acting credits and a podcast hosting gig.

Prince’s lucrative estate, meanwhile, is managed by the business entity Paisley Park Enterprises. The star died without a will, leading to years of probate court infighting before Paisley Park’s assets were split in 2022 between Prince’s heirs and another entity controlled by Primary Wave.