{"id":119447,"date":"2025-03-14T21:01:34","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T21:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2025\/03\/14\/lady-gagas-mayhem-scores-her-biggest-first-week-opening-since-2013-in-the-uk\/"},"modified":"2025-03-14T21:01:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T21:01:34","slug":"lady-gagas-mayhem-scores-her-biggest-first-week-opening-since-2013-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2025\/03\/14\/lady-gagas-mayhem-scores-her-biggest-first-week-opening-since-2013-in-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Lady Gaga&#8217;s Mayhem&#8217; scores her biggest first-week opening since 2013 in the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2025-03-14\/M_LadyGagaMayhem_012725.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Interscope\/Frank Lebon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Lady Gaga<\/strong>&#8216;s <em>Mayhem<\/em>\u00a0is a hit across the pond.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The album has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/chart-news\/lady-gaga-mayhem-uk-number-1-album\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/chart-news\/lady-gaga-mayhem-uk-number-1-album\/\">debuted at #1<\/a> on the U.K.&#8217;s Official Albums Chart with first-week sales of 55,577, outselling the rest of the top five combined, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicweek.com\/labels\/read\/lady-gaga-earns-biggest-albums-chart-opening-since-2013-with-mayhem\/091585\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/www.musicweek.com\/labels\/read\/lady-gaga-earns-biggest-albums-chart-opening-since-2013-with-mayhem\/091585\"><em>MusicWeek<\/em><\/a>. It&#8217;s her highest first-week sales in\u00a0the U.K. in more than 10 years. The last time she sold more in a debut week was in 2013, when <em>Artpop<\/em> debuted at #1 in the U.K.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In addition, <em>Mayhem<\/em> had the second-biggest debut sales week of 2025 in the U.K.\u00a0\u2014 only British singer\/songwriter\u00a0<strong>Sam Fender<\/strong>&#8216;s <em>People Watching<\/em> sold more.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">She previously hit #1 in the U.K. with <em>The Fame Monster, Born This Way<\/em>, <em>Artpop<\/em> and <em>Chromatica<\/em>, as well as the soundtrack for <em>A Star Is Born<\/em>. We&#8217;ll find out how <em>Mayhem<\/em> did on the<em> Billboard<\/em> chart this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interscope\/Frank Lebon Lady Gaga&#8216;s Mayhem\u00a0is a hit across the pond. The album has debuted at #1 on the U.K.&#8217;s Official Albums Chart with first-week sales of 55,577, outselling the rest of the top five combined, according to MusicWeek. It&#8217;s her highest first-week sales in\u00a0the U.K. in more than 10 years.<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2025\/03\/14\/lady-gagas-mayhem-scores-her-biggest-first-week-opening-since-2013-in-the-uk\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/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":[425,426,427],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119447"}],"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=119447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}