{"id":119432,"date":"2025-03-13T00:01:30","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T00:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2025\/03\/13\/lady-gaga-projected-to-cause-mayhem-atop-billboard-album-chart\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T00:01:30","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T00:01:30","slug":"lady-gaga-projected-to-cause-mayhem-atop-billboard-album-chart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2025\/03\/13\/lady-gaga-projected-to-cause-mayhem-atop-billboard-album-chart\/","title":{"rendered":"Lady Gaga projected to cause ‘Mayhem’ atop ‘Billboard’ album chart"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lady Gaga<\/strong>‘s\u00a02024 album\u00a0Harlequin<\/em>, which she described as a “companion album” to her movie\u00a0Joker: Folie \u00e0 Deux<\/em>, peaked at #20 on the Billboard<\/em> 200 album chart. But her new album Mayhem<\/em> is projected<\/strong><\/a> to return her to the top of the tally, which she last visited in 2020.<\/p>\n

According to Billboard<\/em>, Mayhem<\/em> is likely to debut at #1 on the chart with sales in the six figures, and also give Gaga the title of best single-week sales for an album by a female artist of 2025.<\/p>\n

Right now, Tate McRae<\/strong> holds that title for her album So Close to What<\/em>, which sold 177,000 units in its first week of release in February, but Billboard<\/em> predicts Mayhem<\/em> has a “good chance” of passing that number. The publication cites the album’s good reviews, all the promotion that Gaga has done, and the fact that it’s available in many different configurations <\/strong><\/a>— from CD and LP to box set and cassette — which usually boosts sales.<\/p>\n

What’s more, Mayhem<\/em> also includes a Grammy-winning #1 hit, “Die With a Smile,” as well as two additional top 40 hits, “Disease” and “Abracadabra.”<\/p>\n

We should learn on Sunday whether Mayhem<\/em>\u00a0does, indeed, cause sales chaos on the chart.<\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Interscope\/Frank Lebon Lady Gaga‘s\u00a02024 album\u00a0Harlequin, which she described as a “companion album” to her movie\u00a0Joker: Folie \u00e0 Deux, peaked at #20 on the Billboard 200 album chart. But her new album Mayhem is projected to return her to the top of the tally, which she last visited in 2020. AccordingRead More →<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,427],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119432"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}