{"id":119449,"date":"2025-03-17T12:02:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T12:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2025\/03\/17\/lady-gaga-makes-mayhem-atop-chart-biggest-week-of-2025-for-a-woman\/"},"modified":"2025-03-17T12:02:01","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T12:02:01","slug":"lady-gaga-makes-mayhem-atop-chart-biggest-week-of-2025-for-a-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2025\/03\/17\/lady-gaga-makes-mayhem-atop-chart-biggest-week-of-2025-for-a-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"Lady Gaga makes ‘Mayhem’ atop chart, biggest week of 2025 for a woman"},"content":{"rendered":"
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All that promotion paid off: Lady Gaga<\/strong>‘s Mayhem<\/em> has debuted<\/strong><\/a> at #1 on the Billboard<\/em> 200 album chart with the biggest sales week of 2025 by a female artist.<\/p>\n

Mayhem<\/em>, Gaga’s first #1 since 2020’s Chromatica<\/em> and her seventh #1 album overall, sold 219,000 units in its first week. The last time an album by a female artist sold more was in September, when Sabrina Carpenter<\/strong>‘s Short n’ Sweet<\/em> started with 362,000 units. Mayhem<\/em> also gives Gaga her biggest streaming week ever\u00a0— the album’s songs racked up more than 108 million official streams.<\/p>\n

Mayhem<\/em> marked a return to the dance-pop sound that originally made Gaga a star, which is why she told ABC News’ Michael Strahan<\/strong> that she was initially fearful of using that sound again on Mayhem<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“As a woman in music, there was a lot of people that were like, ‘Oh, like, this is who made her’ or ‘This is what made her,'” Gaga explained. “And I think that returning to pop music, for me, was a little bit, like, something I was afraid of because I wondered if I was believing what those people were saying.”<\/p>\n

But Gaga said when she went into the studio, “I went in with confidence. And I was like, “No, no. I<\/em> made me, me.'”<\/p>\n

Helping her realize that was her fianc\u00e9, Michael Polansky<\/strong>, who has multiple songwriting credits on Mayhem<\/em>, as well as an executive producer credit, though he’s not a professional musician. Why was he so involved?<\/p>\n

“Well, we do a lot together,” Gaga told Strahan, adding, “He’s really creative. He plays guitar. He’s, like, a beautiful musician. So we have a really creative relationship.”<\/p>\n

“My album’s called\u00a0Mayhem<\/em>,” she continues. “But\u00a0… it’s also, like, nice to be in the mayhem with someone else — like, facing life together.”\u00a0<\/p>\n