With the release of Lady Gaga’s “Hold My Hand,” from the film Top Gun: Maverick, is Lady Gaga already the front-runner to win next year’s Oscar for best original song? And, will the tune blast to the top of the charts? It’s never too early to start prognosticating. Plus, Pusha T scores his first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 – and he could be the first of a series of No. 1 debuts over the next two months from the likes of Future, Kendrick Lamar, Harry Styles, BTS and Luke Combs. Who could make the splashiest debut atop the list? And are all of them guaranteed chart-toppers?

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