The Mayhem Ball is officially underway!
Lady Gaga launched her 2025 tour on Wednesday, July 16, with a high-energy, theatrical concert featuring songs from her latest album, Mayhem, in addition to many of her greatest hits.
The pop star, 39, kicked off opening night at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas with 2011’s “Bloody Mary” and ran through songs including 2008’s “Poker Face,” 2018’s “Shallow” and 2009’s “Bad Romance” before ending her two-hour-and-15-minute show with 2025’s “How Bad Do U Want Me.” (See the full 27-track setlist below.)
This is Gaga’s first tour since 2022’s Chromatica Ball, which grossed $112.4 million in just 20 nights and had its own 2024 HBO special filmed at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles.
The Mayhem Ball is scheduled to stop in U.S. cities such as San Francisco, New York, Miami and Chicago, among others, before heading to Europe, Australia and Asia.
Gaga (real name Stefani Germanotta) has been heavily promoting Mayhem since its March release. She headlined Coachella in April and performed for a record-breaking 2.1 million people in Brazil the following month.
The critically acclaimed album includes the hit singles “Disease,” “Abracadabra” and “Die With a Smile” (with Bruno Mars) as well as fan favorites “Vanish Into You” and “Killah.”
“I wasn’t planning to tour this year … but the incredible response to the new album inspired me to keep things going,” the singer wrote via Instagram earlier this year, explaining that she booked arenas this time around to have “the opportunity to control the details of the show in a way you simply can’t in stadiums.”
A source exclusively told Us Weekly in March that Gaga’s “identity as an artist is stronger than ever” these days — thanks in part to her fiancé, Michael Polansky, who served as an executive producer on Mayhem.
“His collaboration [on] the project … adds a personal touch that continues to cement this album as that of a very human artist and not a product of the music industry,” a second insider explained at the time.
The Grammy and Oscar winner met Polansky at a charity event in 2019, and they got engaged last year.
The venture capitalist, 41, told Elle in January that the couple’s relationship is “probably a lot like everyone else’s,” only they “have to figure out how to do some of it in public.” He explained that they try to “find normalcy” in their day-to-day lives by maintaining “strong friendships and close family relationships” and hosting loved ones at their home in Malibu, California.
Gaga was previously engaged to Chicago Fire star Taylor Kinney from 2015 to 2016 and talent agent Christian Carino from 2017 to 2019.
Check out the complete Mayhem Ball setlist below:
- “Bloody Mary”
- “Abracadabra”
- “Judas” (with a snippet of “Aura”)
- “Scheiße”
- “Garden of Eden”
- “Poker Face”
- “Perfect Celebrity”
- “Disease”
- “Paparazzi”
- “LoveGame”
- “Alejandro”
- “The Beast”
- “Killah”
- “Zombieboy”
- “LoveDrug”
- “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 U Want Me”
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