Her new album is a work of self-citation, rummaging around in Gaga’s own past for inspiration. It’s also, somehow, the freshest collection of songs she has released in years.

Lady Gaga finally dropped her new album, Mayhem, on March 7. It's her long-awaited solo followup to 2020's Chromatica -- not counting 2024's Harlequin, which was a Joker: Folie à Deux companion album.

Lady Gaga's Mayhem has stormed to No. 1 on the U.K.'s Official Albums Chart to give the pop icon her fifth chart-topper (March 14). The new LP now joins The Fame (2009), Born This Way (2010), Artpop (2013) and Chromatica (2020) as No.