The Mayhem Ball is formally underway!
Lady Gaga launched her 2025 tour on Wednesday, July 16, with a high-energy, theatrical live performance that includes songs from her newest album, Mayhem, in addition to lots of her best hits.
The pop star, 39, kicked off opening evening at T-Cell Enviornment in Las Vegas with 2011’s “Bloody Mary” and ran via songs together with 2008’s “Poker Face,” 2018’s “Shallow” and 2009’s “Dangerous Romance” earlier than ending her two-hour-and-15-minute present with 2025’s “How Dangerous Do U Need Me.” (See the complete 27-track setlist beneath.)
That is Gaga’s first tour since 2022’s Chromatica Ball, which grossed $112.4 million in simply 20 nights and had its personal 2024 HBO particular filmed at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles.
The Mayhem Ball is scheduled to cease in U.S. cities similar to San Francisco, New York, Miami and Chicago, amongst others, earlier than heading to Europe, Australia and Asia.
Lady Gaga Kevin Mazur/Getty Photographs for Coachella
Gaga (actual title Stefani Germanotta) has been closely selling Mayhem since its March launch. She headlined Coachella in April and carried out for a record-breaking 2.1 million individuals in Brazil the next month.
The critically acclaimed album contains the hit singles “Illness,” “Abracadabra” and “Die With a Smile” (with Bruno Mars) in addition to fan favorites “Vanish Into You” and “Killah.”
“I wasn’t planning to tour this 12 months … however the unbelievable response to the brand new album impressed me to maintain issues going,” the singer wrote through Instagram earlier this 12 months, explaining that she booked arenas this time round to have “the chance to regulate the main points of the present in a approach you merely can’t in stadiums.”
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A supply completely informed Us Weekly in March that Gaga’s “id as an artist is stronger than ever” nowadays — thanks in half to her fiancé, Michael Polansky, who served as an government producer on Mayhem.
“His collaboration [on] the mission … provides a private contact that continues to cement this album as that of a really human artist and never a product of the music trade,” a second insider defined on the time.
Lady Gaga Kevin Mazur/Getty Photographs for Coachella
The Grammy and Oscar winner met Polansky at a charity occasion in 2019, and so they received engaged final 12 months.
The enterprise capitalist, 41, informed Elle in January that the couple’s relationship is “most likely quite a bit like everybody else’s,” solely they “have to determine the way to do a few of it in public.” He defined that they attempt to “discover normalcy” in their day-to-day lives by sustaining “sturdy friendships and shut household relationships” and internet hosting family members at their house in Malibu, California.
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Gaga was beforehand engaged to Chicago Hearth star Taylor Kinney from 2015 to 2016 and expertise agent Christian Carino from 2017 to 2019.
Take a look at the entire Mayhem Ball setlist beneath:
- “Bloody Mary”
- “Abracadabra”
- “Judas” (with a snippet of “Aura”)
- “Scheiße”
- “Backyard of Eden”
- “Poker Face”
- “Excellent Celeb”
- “Illness”
- “Paparazzi”
- “LoveGame”
- “Alejandro”
- “The Beast”
- “Killah”
- “Zombieboy”
- “LoveDrug”
- “Applause”
- “Simply Dance”
- “Shadow of a Man”
- “Kill for Love”
- “Summerboy”
- “Born This Method”
- “Million Causes”
- “Shallow”
- “Die With a Smile”
- “Vanish Into You”
- “Dangerous Romance”
- “How Dangerous Do U Need Me”
