Lady Gaga’s Mayhem Tour Grossed More Than $400 Million on Tour

Earlier this week (April 13), Lady Gaga played the final show on The Mayhem Ball, wrapping 12 months of live performances on five continents. Altogether, it was the biggest year of her career on tour, across 93 solo headline ticketed shows. According to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore, Gaga grossed $419.5 million and sold just under two million tickets in her year of Mayhem.

Dating to 2009 with shows in American clubs, Gaga has grossed more than $1.1 billion and sold 8.4 million tickets over 555 reported shows. She is the sixth woman to join Boxscore’s billion-dollar club, following Beyoncé, Celine Dion, Madonna, P!nk, and Taylor Swift.

The Mayhem Ball followed its namesake album, which became Gaga’s seventh to top the Billboard 200. It was her eighth album to yield a Grammy win, and her fourth to claim multiple trophies: best pop vocal album for Mayhem, best pop/duo group performance for “Die With A Smile,” with Bruno Mars, and best pop dance recording for “Abracadabra.” ‘Smile’ was the set’s biggest hit, topping the Billboard Hot 100 and Billboard Global 200, and finishing atop the former’s year-end tally for 2025.

Gaga’s 2025-26 totals break into two main categories. The Mayhem Ball ($362.9 million; 1.6 million tickets), her seventh proper tour, began on July 16, 2025 in Las Vegas and ran through North America, Europe, Australia, and Japan before closing at Madison Square Garden on Monday. But before that, she played two shows in Mexico City and four in Singapore, warming up for the main tour in stadiums on opposite sides of the world.

The Mexico shows (April 26-27) grossed $15.7 million and sold 119,000 tickets at Estadio GNP Seguros and the Singapore shows (May 18-19, 23-24) brought in $40.8 million and sold 193,000 tickets – more than enough for simple warm-up dates. Amid this brief run, she headlined both weekends of Coachella and played a record-breaking free show on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Including those events, Gaga performed for an estimated audience of more than 4.5 million people over the last 12 months.

The Mayhem Ball began in North America, with 27 arena shows across eight major markets. Those shows grossed $103.4 million and sold 378,000 tickets. As detailed upon the tour’s announcement, comparing the tour’s $3.8 million per-show average to Gaga’s most recent tours is apples-to-oranges, down 37% from The Chromatica Ball’s brief stadium run ($6 million), and up 150% from her residency at Las Vegas’ Dolby Live ($1.5 million). Ultimately, with more shows than Chromatica and bigger venues than Vegas, she staged her highest-grossing North American leg ever while still leaving meat on the bone for a 2026 return.

Europe followed with 25 shows and $65.5 million. Trips to Australia and Japan brought Gaga back to stadiums, zipping through the former with $60.7 million in five nights and the latter with $45.7 million in six. Her second arena leg in the U.S. and Canada finished the tour with another $87.7 million and 318,000 tickets. The Mayhem Ball out-earned all her previous tours on each continent. It’s been a consistent player on Billboard’s monthly Top Tours chart, ranking among the top 10 for each of the last seven months, with rankings for March and April still yet to be published.

The Mayhem Ball is Gaga’s highest-grossing tour, by a long shot. It’s her fifth stint above $100 million, including her Vegas residency, but first to break $200 million (The Monster Ball [2009-11] grossed a reported $130.1 million but has many unreported shows from 2010), let alone $300 million and $350 million.

Not only is The Mayhem Ball Gaga’s biggest, it’s among the highest-grossing treks of the 2020s. It is one of the 10 highest-grossing tours by women in Billboard Boxscore history. It’s also among the 10 highest-grossing pop tours ever, and the biggest pop trek this side of The Eras Tour.

Including the Mexico City and Singapore shows, Gaga played 93 shows in 33 markets over the last year, averaging about three nights in each city. Looking back to her most recent mostly-arena tour, it’s a markedly different schedule than the Joanne World Tour’s 49 shows in 41 cities: almost double the shows, but fewer stops.

Gaga’s Mayhem touring is a modern update of the classic world tour, in line with Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter Tour (32 shows; nine cities) and Harry Styles’ Together, Together (67; seven). The Mayhem Ball was not quite a series of mini-residencies in the way of Styles’ upcoming tour – Gaga played one show apiece in Antwerp, Brisbane, and Netherlands – but her runs of nine non-consecutive shows at Madison Square Garden, eight at Kia Forum, and five at Paris’ Accor Arena called fans to travel to major cities in lieu of individual stops in every corner of the U.S. or Europe.

With the move from stadiums on The Chromatica Ball to mostly arenas, and from a slew of one-night-engagements to fewer extended stays, Gaga fostered exclusivity and virality, consolidating demand on the way to the biggest tour of her career. Savvy planning, or a work of magic: abracadabra!