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. Her fiancé, Michael Polansky, contributed 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
### Year-end charts
### Certifications
### Awards and nominations
## 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.

#### Notes 
* ^billed as Los Angeles

## References