Mayhem (Lady Gaga album)

Mayhem is a studio album by American singer and songwriter Lady Gaga. It was released on March 7, 2025, through Streamline and Interscope Records. During the creation of the album, Gaga collaborated with producers such as Andrew Watt, Cirkut, and Gesaffelstein, resulting in an album that has a "chaotic blur of genres", mainly synth-pop, with industrial dance influences, and elements of electro, disco, funk, industrial pop, rock and pop rock. Thematically, it explores love, chaos, fame, identity, and desire, using metaphors of transformation, duality, and excess. The album was recorded at Rick Rubin's studio Shangri-La, in Malibu, California.

Mayhem was preceded by the release of two singles. Its lead single "Disease" was released on October 25, 2024, while "Abracadabra" followed as the second single on February 3, 2025, reaching number five on the Billboard Global 200 and number thirteen on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. The record also includes the Grammy-winning global number one single "Die with a Smile", a duet with Bruno Mars. Mayhem topped the album charts in over 20 countries, and reached the top ten in Denmark, France, Iceland, Lithuania, the Netherlands, and Sweden. It achieved the largest first-week sales of the year for a female album in the United States in 2025.

Mayhem received critical acclaim with reviewers deeming it a strong return to form to Gaga's pop roots, specifically The Fame (2008). Reviewers highlighted the production, stylistic diversity, album cohesion and noted stylistic inspiration from artists such as David Bowie, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Prince, Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails and Siouxsie and the Banshees. It became her highest-rated release on Metacritic. Gaga will promote the album in 2025 with a series of concerts, including a headlining performance at Coachella and a free show in Brazil attended by 2.5 million people, and her eighth concert tour, the Mayhem Ball.