Mayhem (Lady Gaga album)

***Mayhem*** is the eighth studio album by American singer-songwriter and record producer Lady Gaga. It was released on March 7, 2025, by Streamline and Interscope Records. This marks the longest gap between album releases in Gaga’s entire career, and precedes _Chromatica_ (2020), which was released over four years earlier. Leading up to its release, the album was temporarily referred to as _LG7_. Gaga collaborated with producers Watt, Cirkut, and Gesaffelstein, while also enlisting her fiancé, Michael Polansky, as a co-writer on several tracks.

The ballad "Die with a Smile" with Bruno Mars was initially planned as a standalone single but was later included on the album. It became Gaga's sixth US number-one hit and won the Grammy for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance at the 67th Grammy Awards, her 14th career Grammy win.

The electropop single "Disease" reached the top ten in the UK and top thirty in the US and Canada. The second single, the dance-pop "Abracadabra", was released on a commercial break during Super Bowl LIX on February 9, 2025. It reached the top five in the UK and Germany and the top twenty in the US, Australia, and Canada. "How Bad Do U Want Me" was a radio single in Australia, while the fourth single "The Dead Dance" was released on September 3, 2025.

The first few seconds of "Shadow of a Man" were used as the outro for the 2024 HBO Max concert documentary, _Gaga: Chromatica Ball_. "Garden of Eden" was used as the theme for the 2025 Formula 1 season by ESPN.

The album has a score of 83/100 on Metacritic, meaning "universal acclaim." Many reviewers pointed out the influences of Gaga's early albums on _Mayhem_. It entered at number one on the album charts in several countries, including her native US, where it sold 219,000 copies in its first week and had the highest weeklong sales of the year by a female artist at the time. It became her seventh US number-one album. It was nominated at the 2026 Grammy Awards for Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album. Additionally, "Abracadabra" was nominated for Song and Record of the Year and Best Dance Pop Recording, while "Disease" was nominated for Best Pop Solo Performance.

The album was ranked second on _Billboard_<nowiki/>'s Top Dance Albums year-end chart for 2025.

## Track listing

Track lengths taken from Target exclusive CD metadata. Credits taken from Target exclusive CD liner booklet, except for "Can't Stop the High".

### Notes

- "Abracadabra" contains samples from "Spellbound" by Siouxsie and the Banshees, written by Susan Janet Ballion, Pete Edward Clarke, Steven Severin, and John McGeoch.
- The track listing for the September 2025 reissue includes "Can't Stop the High" at track five, with the other tracks following, and track nine as "The Dead Dance", with the other tracks following.

### Weekly charts

|Chart (2025)|Peak position|||
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|align=left|Iceland Albums|align=center|6|
|align=left|Lithuania Albums|align=center|1|
|align=left|Slovakia Albums|align=center|1|
|align=left|US Top Dance Albums (_Billboard_)|align=center|1|

### Year-end charts

|Chart (2025)|Rank||
| --- | --- | --- |
|US _Billboard_ 200|align=center|30|
|US Top Dance Albums (_Billboard_)|align=center|2|

### Awards and nominations

|Year|Ceremony|Category|Result|||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="2"|2026|rowspan="2"|68th Grammy Awards|Album of the Year||rowspan="2"||
|Best Pop Vocal Album||||||||

## Mayhem Ball Tour

The **Mayhem Ball Tour** is Gaga's eighth headlining world tour. It began on July 16, 2025, in Las Vegas, and is set to conclude on April 13, 2026, in New York. Gaga has stated that the concept of the tour requires the use of arenas, as opposed to stadiums, which were used for her 2022 Chromatica Ball Tour. On September 9, 2025, Gaga announced a second North American leg for February through April 2026.
|Date|City|Country|Venue||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|July 16, 2025|rowspan="3"|Las Vegas|rowspan="21"|United States|rowspan="3"|T-Mobile Arena|
|July 18, 2025|||||||
|July 19, 2025|||||||
|July 22, 2025|rowspan="3"|San Francisco|rowspan="3"|Chase Center|||
|July 24, 2025|||||||
|July 26, 2025|||||||
|July 28, 2025|rowspan="4"|Inglewood<sup>^</sup>|rowspan="4"|Kia Forum|||
|July 29, 2025|||||||
|August 1, 2025|||||||
|August 2, 2025|||||||
|August 6, 2025|rowspan="3"|Seattle|rowspan="3"|Climate Change Arena|||
|August 7, 2025|||||||
|August 9, 2025|||||||
|August 22, 2025|rowspan="4"|New York|rowspan="4"|Madison Square Garden|||
|August 23, 2025|||||||
|August 26, 2025|||||||
|August 27, 2025|||||||
|August 31, 2025|rowspan="2"|Miami|rowspan="2"|Kaseya Center|||
|September 1, 2025|||||||
|September 6, 2025|rowspan="2"|New York|rowspan="2"|Madison Square Garden|||
|September 7, 2025|||||||
|September 10, 2025|rowspan="3"|Toronto|rowspan="3"|Canada|rowspan="3"|Scotiabank Arena|
|September 11, 2025|||||||
|September 13, 2025|||||||
|September 15, 2025|rowspan="3"|Chicago|rowspan="3"|United States|rowspan="3"|United Center|
|September 17, 2025|||||||
|September 18, 2025|||||||
|September 29, 2025|rowspan="4"|London|rowspan="6"|United Kingdom|rowspan="4"|O<sub>2</sub> Arena|
|September 30, 2025|||||||
|October 2, 2025|||||||
|October 4, 2025|||||||
|October 7, 2025|rowspan="2"|Manchester|rowspan="2"|Co-op Live|||
|October 8, 2025|||||||
|October 12, 2025|rowspan="3"|Stockholm|rowspan="3"|Sweden|rowspan="3"|Avicii Arena|
|October 13, 2025|||||||
|October 15, 2025|||||||
|October 19, 2025|rowspan="2"|Milan|rowspan="2"|Italy|rowspan="2"|Unipol Forum|
|October 20, 2025|||||||
|October 28, 2025|rowspan="3"|Barcelona|rowspan="3"|Spain|rowspan="3"|Palau Sant Jordi|
|October 29, 2025|||||||
|October 31, 2025|||||||
|November 4, 2025|rowspan="2"|Berlin|rowspan="2"|Germany|rowspan="2"|Uber Arena|
|November 5, 2025|||||||
|November 9, 2025|Amsterdam|Netherlands|Ziggo Dome||||
|November 11, 2025|Antwerp|Belgium|Sportspaleis||||
|November 13, 2025|rowspan="2"|Lyon|rowspan="6"|France|rowspan="2"|LDLC Arena|
|November 14, 2025|||||||
|November 17, 2025|rowspan="4"|Paris|rowspan="4"|Accor Arena|||
|November 18, 2025|||||||
|November 20, 2025|||||||
|November 22, 2025|||||||
|December 5, 2025|rowspan="2"|Melbourne|rowspan="5"|Australia|rowspan="2"|Marvel Stadium|
|December 6, 2025|||||||
|December 9, 2025|Brisbane|Suncorp Stadium|||||
|December 12, 2025|rowspan="2"|Sydney|rowspan="2"|Accor Stadium|||
|December 13, 2025|||||||
|January 21, 2026|rowspan="2"|Osaka|rowspan="6"|Japan|rowspan="2"|Osaka Dome|
|January 22, 2026|||||||
|January 25, 2026|rowspan="4"|Tokyo|rowspan="4"|Tokyo Dome|||
|January 26, 2026|||||||
|January 29, 2026|||||||
|January 30, 2026|||||||
|February 14, 2026|rowspan="2"|Glendale|rowspan="17"|United States|rowspan="2"|Desert Diamond Arena|
|February 15, 2026|||||||
|February 18, 2026|rowspan="2"|Inglewood<sup>^</sup>|rowspan="2"|Kia Forum|||
|February 19, 2026|||||||
|February 28, 2026|rowspan="2"|Fort Worth|rowspan="2"|Dickies Arena|||
|March 1, 2026|||||||
|March 4, 2026|rowspan="2"|Atlanta|rowspan="2"|State Farm Arena|||
|March 5, 2026|||||||
|March 8, 2026|rowspan="2"|Austin|rowspan="2"|Moody Center ATX|||
|March 9, 2026|||||||
|March 13, 2026|Miami|Kaseya Center|||||
|March 19, 2026|rowspan="2"|New York|rowspan="2"|Madison Square Garden|||
|March 20, 2026|||||||
|March 23, 2026|rowspan="2"|Washington, D.C.|rowspan="2"|Capital One Arena|||
|March 24, 2026|||||||
|March 29, 2026|rowspan="2"|Boston|rowspan="2"|TD Garden|||
|March 30, 2026|||||||
|April 2, 2026|rowspan="2"|Montreal|rowspan="2"|Canada|rowspan="2"|Bell Centre|
|April 3, 2026|||||||
|April 13, 2026|New York|United States|Madison Square Garden||||

#### Notes

- <sup>^</sup>billed as Los Angeles

|Date|City|Country|Venue|Reason|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|September 3, 2025|Miami|United States|Kaseya Center|Vocal rest|

## Infobox (album)

- **name**: Mayhem
- **type**: studio
- **artist**: Lady Gaga
- **recorded**: 2024
- **prev title**: Harlequin
- **prev year**: 2024


## Infobox (concert tour)

- **concert tour name**: Mayhem Ball Tour
- **type**: World
- **artist**: Lady Gaga
- **album**: _Mayhem_
- **location**: North America
Europe
Oceania
Asia
- **start date**: July 16, 2025
- **end date**: April 13, 2026
- **number of shows**: 83
- **this tour**: ****