Last night [17th July 2025], 14-time Grammy, Oscar and Emmy award winner Lady Gaga kicked off her highly anticipated The Mayhem Ball Tour at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
Opening night of the sold-out tour featured a powerful setlist blending hits from her critically acclaimed album “Mayhem” with fan favourites which span her expansive catalogue.
Highlights from the show include “Abracadabra,” “Killah,” “Vanish Into You,” “How Bad Do You Want Me,” “Love Drug,” “Summerboy,” “Just Dance,” “Judas,” “Born This Way,” “Shallow,” “Die With a Smile” and much more.
Produced by Lady Gaga and Michael Polansky via their company Morningview, The Mayhem Ball expands on the visual and conceptual world Gaga introduced at Coachella and evolved throughout her festival run.
Continuing her collaboration with acclaimed choreographer Parris Goebel, she enlisted Ben Dalgleish of Human Person as show director. The production also features brand new costumes, styled by Hunter Clem and Gaga’s sister Natali Germanotta, under her design house Topo Studio.
The Mayhem Ball celebrates Gaga’s eighth studio album, “Mayhem”, which debuted at # 1 on the US Billboard chart and marked her seventh consecutive # 1 solo album. The album remained in the Top 20 for 12 consecutive weeks.
It also topped the US dance/electronic albums chart— where it spent 17 weeks in the top spot — and landed in the Top 10 of the Billboard pop albums chart for 15 consecutive weeks. It also debuted at No. 1 on the US LP vinyl albums chart, further underscoring its cross-format appeal.
Certified Platinum in the U.S. for more than 1,000,000 equivalent album units sold, “Mayhem” has amassed more than eight billion global streams and 4.5 million albums sold worldwide, making it one of the year’s biggest global music releases.
The album’s explosive performance propelled Gaga to nearly 125 million monthly listeners on Spotify — making her the most listened-to female artist in the platform’s history.
“Die With a Smile,” Gaga’s hit collaboration with Bruno Mars, also shattered records across the board. It spent 18 weeks at # 1 on the Billboard Global 200 — making it the second-longest running chart-topper in the chart’s history — and reached # 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, where it held for five weeks.
On Spotify, it became the longest-running # 1 song in the platform’s history, spending an unprecedented 201 days at the top of the global chart. It also holds the record as the fastest song ever to surpass one billion (in 96 days) and two billion (in 200 days) streams on Spotify. In total, the song has amassed 5.7 billion global streams, including 2.7 billion on Spotify alone.
Set List:
Bloody Mary
Abracadabra
Judas
Aura
Scheiße
Garden Of Eden
Poker Face
Perfect Celebrity
Disease
Paparazzi
LoveGame
Alejandro
The Beast
Killah
Zombieboy
Love Drug
Applause
Just Dance
Shadow Of A Man
Kill For Love
Summerboy
Born This Way
Million Reasons
Shallow
Die With A Smile
Vanish Into You
Bad Romance
How Bad Do You Want Me
The Mayhem Ball follows Gaga’s headlining performances at Coachella and a landmark series of international shows, including stadium dates in Mexico City and Singapore. In Rio de Janeiro, her free show at Copacabana Beach drew an estimated 2.5 million fans – setting a new record for the highest attended concert by a female artist in history.
The tour continues this weekend with two more shows in Las Vegas, before heading to San Francisco for three nights at Chase Center starting Tuesday, July 22nd July.
Highlights of the routing include a four-night run at Los Angeles’ Kia Forum and six nights at New York’s iconic Madison Square Garden. Gaga will also perform multiple nights in Seattle, Miami, Toronto, and Chicago.
Following the North American leg ending on 18th September, the tour will expand globally with major runs across Europe and the UK [September 29th to November 22nd], with Australia and Japan, carrying into early 2026.
UK shows:
Mon Sep 29 – London, UK – The O2
Tue Sep 30 – London, UK – The O2
Thu Oct 02 – London, UK – The O2
Sat Oct 04 – London, UK – The O2
Tue Oct 07 – Manchester, UK – Co-op Live
Wed Oct 08 – Manchester, UK – Co-op Live
Photos by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Live Nation [Exclusive coverage]
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