After much anticipation, 14-time Grammy Award-winner Lady Gaga has officially unveiled the Australian leg of her ‘The MAYHEM Ball’ tour, featuring three stadium shows added to her global schedule. This marks Lady Gaga’s eagerly awaited return to Australia, her first performances in the country since the 2014 ArtRave: The ARTPOP Ball. Australian fans can catch ‘The MAYHEM Ball’ tour starting December 5 at Melbourne’s Marvel Stadium, followed by a performance on December 9 at Brisbane’s Suncorp Stadium, and concluding on December 12 at Sydney’s Accor Stadium.
Following her headlining performances in 2025 at Coachella, stadium shows in Mexico City and Singapore, and a landmark free concert on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Gaga will kick off The MAYHEM Ball tour on July 16 in Las Vegas. The tour will then continue through North America, Europe, and the UK in support of her new album, MAYHEM, which has garnered widespread acclaim from both critics and fans, debuting at #1 on the Billboard 200. Stream MAYHEM HERE. Recently, due to overwhelming global demand, Lady Gaga added 13 new dates, all of which sold out quickly, showcasing her strong connection with fans.
Presale for the Australian dates starts on Monday, April 14. Mastercard holders will have exclusive access to presale tickets starting at 10am local time in Melbourne, 11am in Sydney, and 12pm in Brisbane, with sales ending on Wednesday, April 16, at the same local times. Preferred ticket access for some of the best seats will open on Thursday, April 17, at 12pm local time in Melbourne, 1pm in Sydney, and 2pm in Brisbane. Mastercard is also bringing cardholders even closer to their passion for music by offering an incredible Priceless experience, including an onstage photo opportunity, a Q&A with a member of Lady Gaga’s crew, pre-show access, and more. Visit priceless.com/music for details.
Vodafone mobile customers can be among the first to secure tickets during a 48 hour presale commencing 10am local Monday 14 April in Melbourne, 11am local in Sydney and 12pm local in Brisbane. Visit vodafone.com.au/ticket to find out more.
A Live Nation pre-sale will commence Wednesday 16 April at 11am local in Melbourne, 12pm local in Sydney and 1pm local in Brisbane. Visit livenation.com.au for details.
PARTNER PRESALE
Melbourne: Monday April 14 at 10am local – Wednesday April 16 at 10am local
Sydney: Monday April 14 at 11am local – Wednesday April 16 at 11am local
Brisbane: Monday April 14 at 12pm local – Wednesday April 16 at 12pm local
LIVE NATION PRESALE
Melbourne: Wednesday April 16 at 11am local – Thursday April 17 at 11am local
Sydney: Wednesday April 16 at 12pm local – Thursday April 17 at 12pm local
Brisbane: Wednesday April 16 at 1pm local – Thursday April 17 at 1pm local
GENERAL ON SALE:
Melbourne: Thursday April 17 at 12pm local
Sydney: Thursday April 17 at 1pm local
Brisbane: Thursday April 17 at 2pm local
VIP: The tour will also offer a variety of different VIP packages for fans to take their concert experience to the next level. Packages vary but include premium tickets, invitation to the pre-show VIP hospitality lounge, limited edition merch item & more. VIP package contents vary based on the offer selected. For more information, visit vipnation.com.
LADY GAGA
THE MAYHEM BALL TOUR
AUSTRALIA 2025 – JUST ADDED
Fri Dec 5 – Melbourne, AU – Marvel Stadium
Tue Dec 9 – Brisbane, AU – Suncorp Stadium
Fri Dec 12 – Sydney, AU – Accor Stadium
Taking the world by storm, MAYHEM continues to dominate the charts and break records. The album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, marking Gaga’s seventh consecutive No. 1 album. In its third week, it remains one of the biggest releases of the year, still holding Top 10 positions across key charts including The Billboard 200, Digital Albums, and Billboard Top 200 Pop Albums chart. It also retains the No. 1 spot on the Top Dance/Electronic Albums chart— her eighth career No. 1 on the tally, making her the most successful artist of all time in the chart’s history. She now stands alone with the most No. 1 albums ever on the Dance/Electronic Albums chart.
The fastest-selling international release of the year, MAYHEM debuted at No. 1 in 12 countries, including the U.S., UK, Germany, Japan, Italy, Canada, Australia, France, Spain, Mexico, Brazil, and South Korea, and landed at No. 2 in the Netherlands and Sweden—further cementing Gaga’s global dominance. “Abracadabra” entered the UK Singles Chart at No. 3 and the UK Airplay Chart at No. 2, while in France, MAYHEM posted the biggest first-week sales since Born This Way. In Japan, it ranked among the biggest international albums in recent years; in Finland, it was the only international album to crack the Top 10; and in Ireland, three MAYHEM tracks landed in the Top 40—reinforcing its worldwide impact.
In its first week alone, MAYHEM amassed over 240 million streams worldwide, marking her biggest streaming week ever. Since release, the album has generated over 5.2 billion global streams to date. Across her entire catalog, Gaga now surpasses 66 billion global streams, underscoring her longevity and global reach. MAYHEM also marked her biggest vinyl week ever, with 74,000 units sold across 14 collectible variants, some of which featured exclusive bonus tracks like “Kill for Love” and “Can’t Stop the High.” The digital edition of the album includes music videos for “Die With a Smile,” “Disease,” and “Abracadabra,” all of which helped fuel the album’s massive first week impact.
“Die With a Smile,” Gaga’s collaboration with Bruno Mars, continues to break records, securing a 15th week at No. 1 on the Billboard Global 200 chart. Tied ffor the second-longest running No. 1 in Billboard Global 200 chart history, the song has also spent 168 days at #1 on the Spotify global chart, the most of any song ever.
MAYHEM marks a return to Gaga’s pop roots, reaffirming that she is a master of reinvention, crafting an album that is as bold and eclectic as it is deeply personal. A declaration of artistic freedom, it embraces the fractured pieces of oneself and how they come together to form something unexpected and beautiful. The album mirrors this concept with its diverse sonic palette and thematic layers, combining elements of chaos, defiance, and vulnerability into a cohesive artistic statement. Gaga describes this process as assembling a shattered mirror: “Even if you can’t put the pieces back together perfectly, you can create something memorable and whole in its own way.”
Critical Acclaim for MAYHEM:
“In a world of so-called lowercase pop, Gaga still has the caps-lock on in a bold, 96-point font, like she did in 2009. Throughout the album, she belts to the heavens and hits her marks with precision and flair, reminding her peers what a capital-E entertainer sounds like.” – NEW YORK TIMES
“Brash, squirmy, full of detailed grooves and expertly crafted hooks, it’s a winning reclamation of her trademark sound …and precisely the album you’d want her to drop before headlining Coachella, as Lady Gaga will do next month.” – LOS ANGELES TIMES
“Full of typically irresistible hooks and her signature sense of drama…Mayhem easily ranks with her best.” – WALL STREET JOURNAL
“Lady Gaga’s return to form…[an] instantly lovable, bombastic pop offering…[with] big, juicy, showy hooks…the kind that overwhelm the brain with dopamine and the hips with a need to move.” – THE NEW YORKER
“Mayhem makes a return to her trademark sound, but it also, more important, recalls her foundational ethos…As the album develops, it highlights all sorts of Gagaisms: oompah synth squirts, melodies that are like stammered sea shanties, vocals that swing between pageant-queen preening and gutter-punk growls…It is a muscular, gutsy, never-a-dull-minute work of bricolage. It’s also a warm, strangely moving collection about the passage of time.” – THE ATLANTIC
“…a juggernaut so abundant in hooks, harmonic pivots, and gleefully indulgent production flourishes that it sounds like the result of a sinister plan to option every unclaimed hit on the marketplace and Frankenstein it into one maximalist pop symphony.” – PITCHFORK
“Gaga feels like her most authentic self from start to finish on this album: There’s no characters, concepts, or aesthetic impulses overshadowing the songs. Instead, she’s made one of her most sonically challenging and uniform albums yet: a mix of Nine Inch Nails, David Bowie, Prince and her Fame Monster-era self, rolled into the year’s strongest pop release yet.” – ROLLING STONE
“In a musical landscape concerned with “album eras,” Mayhem refuses to be easily categorized. Ranging from grinding industrial techno one moment to soulful, heartfelt balladry the next, Mayhem makes its title a thesis statement — the throughline is disorder.” – BILLBOARD
“Mayhem serves as a true return to form—delivering Gaga’s rawest and most experimental music to date.” – VOGUE
“Gaga has a way of revitalizing the touchstones of her earliest work on Mayhem without it feeling nostalgically lopsided. There are callbacks to former glory, but it sounds contemporaneously fresh, in lockstep with modern-day pop without chasing its most obvious conventions.” – VARIETY
