Lady Gaga performing onstage in February, 2025. Photo:
Theo Wargo/Peacock via Getty
Lady Gaga is taking her new album, Mayhem, on tour!
On Wednesday, March 26, the singer announced plans to embark on The MAYHEM Ball, a tour that will begin this summer following a headlining performance at Coachella and a free concert in Brazil.
The arena tour will give fans an opportunity to feel even closer to Gaga, 38.
“This is my first arena tour since 2018,” she said in a statement. “There’s something electric about a stadium, and I love every moment of those shows. But with The MAYHEM Ball, I wanted to create a different kind of experience — something more intimate — closer, more connected — that lends itself to the live theatrical art I love to create.”
Poster for Lady Gaga’s The MAYHEM Ball. Lady Gaga/Instagram
Gaga had more to say about the tour on Instagram.
“I wasn’t planning to tour this year after my shows in Singapore but the incredible response to the new album inspired me to keep things going,” she admitted, adding that it “came together super quickly.”
She continued, “We chose arenas this time to give me the opportunity to control the details of the show in a way you simply can’t in stadiums — and honestly, I can’t wait. This show is designed to be the kind of theatrical and electrifying experience that brings MAYHEM to life exactly how I envision it. The MAYHEM Ball Tour is officially coming your way. See you soon, monsters.”
Gaga will kick things off with a pair of shows in Las Vegas on July 16 and 18. Additional tour dates will take place across North America and Europe, with stops in New York City, Chicago, London and Milan.
She’ll wrap up the tour with a trio of performances in Paris on November 17, 18 and 20.
Artwork for Lady Gaga’s new album, ‘Mayhem’. Frank LeBon
Tickets for the tour will be available for presale on March 31. The Artist Presale will begin April 2 at 12 p.m. local time. Fans need to sign up for the presale before March 30 at 8 a.m. ET. The general sale will begin April 3 at 12 p.m. local time via Live Nation.
The MAYHEM Ball marks Gaga’s first tour since 2022’s The Chromatica Ball. The show was delayed by two years due to the pandemic and was immortalized via Gaga Chromatica Ball, an HBO concert special in 2024.
While promoting the special, the singer revealed that she performed five shows while sick with COVID.
“I shared it with everyone on my team and I said, ‘I don’t want anyone to feel uncomfortable at work and you don’t have to perform and you don’t have to work that day, but I’m going to do the show,’ because I just didn’t want to let all the fans down,” she said during a press conference.
Gaga continued, explaining her rationale: “The way that I saw it also is that the fans were all putting themselves in harm’s way every day coming to the show. During all my quick changes, I kept going. ‘I’m sorry. I’m so sorry.’ “
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