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Lady Gaga performs onstage during The MAYHEM Ball Tour at Madison Square Garden on August 22, 2025 in New York City.
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On Monday (Sept. 29), Lady Gaga begins the European leg of The Mayhem Ball at London’s O2 Arena. But even before the 24 shows in 10 cities across eight countries, 2025 is already a milestone year on the road for Mother Monster.
Taking into account the success of the tour’s first North American leg, extensions around the world, and the warm-up shows from earlier in the year, 2025 will be Gaga’s biggest-ever year on tour. According to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore, Lady Gaga’s 27 shows in the United States and Canada brought in $103.4 million and sold 378,000 tickets. That makes it the highest-grossing leg of any Gaga tour, in North America or otherwise.
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Back in April, Billboard projected that The Mayhem Ball might reach $100 million by the end of its entire run, which at that time, was the end of the Europe leg in November. Having already reached that milestone, the tour could near $150 million by the end of her European shows, before Gaga embarks on added stadium stints in Australia and Japan, plus another 25-show stretch in North America through April 2026.
The Mayhem Ball notably returned Gaga to arenas after playing stadiums for The Chromatica Ball (2022) and mixing both venues on the Joanne World Tour (2017-18). With fewer seats available each night, demand drove ticket prices to the point that her show grosses sustained against the supply shortage.
And even compared to the North American legs of her last all-arena runs, The Mayhem Ball is up (14,009 tickets per show) compared to ArtRave: The Artpop Ball (12,315 in 2014) and The Born This Way Ball (12,232 in 2013). She last cracked 14,000 in 2011 on The Monster Ball.
Even considering the expected drop-off in ticket prices in Europe, the lengthy run of arena shows will add at least half of North America’s gross and likely another 300,000 tickets. The Japanese stadium shows should fall somewhere between her recent Singapore run ($10.2 million per show) and 2022’s Saitama shows ($5.7 million) to add $40-45 million. Her December leg in Australia will be her first since 2014, padding another $35-40 million.
Next year’s return to the U.S. and Canada might be softer than Gaga’s recent run considering some of the smaller-capacity arenas included on her routing. Still, demand is high, and her continental gross should stretch toward $175 million. In all, The Mayhem Ball could be her first tour to approach $300 million, potentially tripling Billboard’s initial estimates. Sales will soar beyond 1 million tickets, becoming her third to do so, and first since The Born This Way Ball, plus 2009-11’s The Monster Ball.
Those totals don’t include Gaga’s international dates prior to the proper tour’s kick-off. Two concerts in Mexico City and four in Singapore grossed $56.6 million and sold over 300,000 tickets. Including this week’s shows in London, and with a couple dozen more to go, 2025 will become her biggest year on tour ever, surpassing 2012’s $161.8 million.
Already, Gaga’s reported career totals have climbed to $879.6 million and 7.1 million tickets. By tour’s end, she’ll have cleared $1 billion in ticket sales.
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