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'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.

 Charts and certifications 

Weekly charts
+ Weekly chart performance for Mayhem Chart (2025)  PeakpositionIceland Albums6Lithuania Albums1Slovakia Albums1US Top Dance Albums (Billboard)1

Year-end charts
+ Year-end chart performance for Mayhem Chart (2025) RankUS Billboard 20030US Top Dance Albums (Billboard)2
Certifications

Awards and nominations
YearCeremonyCategoryResult202668th Grammy AwardsAlbum of the YearBest 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.
+Scheduled showsDateCityCountryVenueNorth AmericaJuly 16, 2025Las VegasUnited StatesT-Mobile ArenaJuly 18, 2025July 19, 2025July 22, 2025San FranciscoChase CenterJuly 24, 2025July 26, 2025July 28, 2025Inglewood^Kia ForumJuly 29, 2025August 1, 2025August 2, 2025August 6, 2025SeattleClimate Change ArenaAugust 7, 2025August 9, 2025August 22, 2025New YorkMadison Square GardenAugust 23, 2025August 26, 2025August 27, 2025August 31, 2025MiamiKaseya CenterSeptember 1, 2025September 6, 2025New YorkMadison Square GardenSeptember 7, 2025September 10, 2025TorontoCanadaScotiabank ArenaSeptember 11, 2025September 13, 2025September 15, 2025ChicagoUnited StatesUnited CenterSeptember 17, 2025September 18, 2025EuropeSeptember 29, 2025LondonUnited KingdomO2 ArenaSeptember 30, 2025October 2, 2025October 4, 2025October 7, 2025ManchesterCo-op LiveOctober 8, 2025October 12, 2025StockholmSwedenAvicii ArenaOctober 13, 2025October 15, 2025October 19, 2025MilanItalyUnipol ForumOctober 20, 2025October 28, 2025BarcelonaSpainPalau Sant JordiOctober 29, 2025October 31, 2025November 4, 2025BerlinGermanyUber ArenaNovember 5, 2025November 9, 2025AmsterdamNetherlandsZiggo DomeNovember 11, 2025AntwerpBelgiumSportspaleisNovember 13, 2025LyonFranceLDLC ArenaNovember 14, 2025November 17, 2025ParisAccor ArenaNovember 18, 2025November 20, 2025November 22, 2025OceaniaDecember 5, 2025MelbourneAustraliaMarvel StadiumDecember 6, 2025December 9, 2025BrisbaneSuncorp StadiumDecember 12, 2025SydneyAccor StadiumDecember 13, 2025AsiaJanuary 21, 2026OsakaJapanOsaka DomeJanuary 22, 2026January 25, 2026TokyoTokyo DomeJanuary 26, 2026January 29, 2026January 30, 2026North AmericaFebruary 14, 2026GlendaleUnited StatesDesert Diamond ArenaFebruary 15, 2026February 18, 2026Inglewood^Kia ForumFebruary 19, 2026February 28, 2026Fort WorthDickies ArenaMarch 1, 2026March 4, 2026AtlantaState Farm ArenaMarch 5, 2026March 8, 2026AustinMoody Center ATXMarch 9, 2026March 13, 2026MiamiKaseya CenterMarch 19, 2026New YorkMadison Square GardenMarch 20, 2026March 23, 2026Washington, D.C.Capital One ArenaMarch 24, 2026March 29, 2026BostonTD GardenMarch 30, 2026April 2, 2026MontrealCanadaBell CentreApril 3, 2026April 13, 2026New YorkUnited StatesMadison Square Garden

 Notes 

 ^billed as Los Angeles

+Rescheduled showsDateCityCountryVenueReasonSeptember 3, 2025MiamiUnited StatesKaseya CenterVocal rest

 References 

Category:2025 albums
Category:Lady Gaga albums
Category:Dance-pop albums
Category:Electropop albums
Category:Synth-pop albums