Lady Gaga’s ‘Mayhem’ Tops the Albums Chart

Lady Gaga’s Mayhem debuts at Number One on the Billboard 200 albums chart, per the publication. It’s the star’s seventh time topping the chart and it also marks Gaga’s largest debut via streaming of her career.

Mayhem bows at Number One with 219,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S., according to Luminate. Of those units, 80,500 come from streaming — the equivalent of more than 108 million on-demand official streams of the album’s songs — with the album debuting at Number One on the Top Streaming Albums chart as well.

The album marks Gaga’s seventh Number One-bowing album on the Billboard 200 chart. Gaga has debuted at Number One previously with 2020’s Chromatica, the 2018 soundtrack to A Star Is Born with Bradley Cooper, 2016’s Joanne, 2014’s Cheek to Cheek with Tony Bennett, 2013’s Artpop, and 2011’s Born This Way.

Mayhem also earned the biggest week of 2025 for an album by a woman. It’s also the largest debut album by a woman in more than six months. Sabrina Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet, which bowed with 362,000 units on Sept. 7, 2024, was the last big-selling woman-led debut (Short n’ Sweet appears at Number Six this week).

Mayhem’s first week sales were boosted by a bevy of editions, including 14 vinyl variants, four CD editions, a cassette tape, and a deluxe CD box set, plus downloadable offerings of both the standard and deluxe album versions. Vinyl comprised 74,000 of Mayhem’s opening-week sales.

Elsewhere on the charts, Kendrick Lamar’s GNX moves down a notch to Number Two with a bit more than 81,000 units earned. Drake and PartyNextDoor’s $ome $exy $ongs 4 U falls to Number Three with 79,000 units earned, SZA’s SOS remains at Number Four with 69,000 units earned, and Tate McRae’s So Close to What rounds out the Top Five with 63,000 units earned.

In other chart news, Jennie’s first solo studio album, Ruby, enters the Billboard 200 at Number Seven, with 56,000 units earned.

From Rolling Stone US.