Lady Gaga has revealed that her seventh studio album, apparently titled “Mayhem,” will be released on March 7. The announcement was teased via billboards that appeared overnight in New York and Las Vegas,.
“The album started as me facing my fear of returning to the pop music my earliest fans loved,” Gaga said in the album announcement, describing the creative process as “reassembling a shattered mirror: even if you can’t put the pieces back together perfectly, you can create something beautiful and whole in its own new way.”
The 14-track project — which features previously released songs “Disease” and “Die With a Smile” — was executive produced by Gaga, Michael Polansky and Andrew Watt. Producers on the album include Gaga, Andrew Watt, Cirkut, and Gesaffelstein.
Lady Gaga “Mayhem” album cover (Courtesy Interscope Records)
The singer will debut the third single and accompanying music video from ‘Mayhem’ on February 2, airing during a commercial break at the 2025 Grammy Awards. The full tracklist for the album will be revealed at a later date.
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Ahead of the Grammys, Gaga will join artists including Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo, Stevie Nicks, and Joni Mitchell to perform at FireAid in Los Angeles on January 30, benefiting the people and communities devastated by the recent wildfires. On March 17, she will be honored with the 2025 iHeartRadio Innovator Award at the 12th annual iHeartRadio Music Awards, followed by a headlining performance at Coachella on April 11 and 18.
In a Dec. 19 interview with the Los Angeles Times, Gaga said the LP was “full of [her] love of music” and was composed of “so many different genres, so many different styles, so many different dreams.”
“It leaps around genre in a way that’s almost corrupt,” she told the publication. “And it ends with love. That’s the answer to all the chaos in my life is that I find peace with love. Every song that I wrote, I just kept getting kind of swept away in these different dreams I was having about the past — almost like a recollection of all these bad decisions that I made in my life.”
She added, “But it ends in this very happy place.”
Outside of her work for “Joker: Folie à Deux,” this will be Gaga’s first full-length effort since 2020’s “Chromatica,” which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 upon its release. Lady Gaga previously hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with the “A Star Is Born” soundtrack (with Bradley Cooper, in 2018 and 2019), “Joanne” (in 2016), “Cheek to Cheek” (with Tony Bennett in 2014), “Artpop” (in 2013) and “Born This Way” (in 2011).