Today (March 16), the Billboard 200 chart data was released and atop the list is Lady Gaga’s Mayhem. While Lady Gaga is no stranger to chart-topping projects, Mayhem’s accolade marked a major milestone for the Academy Award-winner–her seventh No. 1 album.

Lady Gaga's Mayhem debuts at Number One on the Billboard 200 albums chart, per the publication. It's the star's seventh time topping the chart and it also marks Gaga's largest debut via streaming of her career.

Lady Gaga's "Mayhem" has made its mark as the No. 1 album in the United States this week. Her seventh studio album, "Mayhem" earns Gaga the biggest opening week for an album by a woman this year with 219,

Lady Gaga’s MAYHEM moves in at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, as the set debuts atop the tally dated March 22. It’s the seventh leader for the superstar. The set —

On Popcast, a discussion about the singer’s latest “return to form” album and whether her aggressive promotion of it adds up to anything new.

During her interview with The New York Times published on March 8, the "Rain on Me" singer revealed that her fiancé Michael Polansky talked her out of making Mayhem a "grunge" album.

“Mayhem” puts the lie to that idea: Brash, squirmy, full of detailed grooves and expertly crafted hooks, it’s a winning reclamation of her trademark sound — her best since 2011’s “Born This Way” and precisely the album you’d want her to drop before headlining Coachella, as Lady Gaga will do next month.

She dances on the line between clever self-referentiality and less inspired rehashing on her new LP, committing to the over-the-top excess that first made her a star.

It is as complete a statement about who Lady Gaga is in 2025 as anything could be. MAYHEM repositions Gaga as a dance diva heavily indebted to the icons who came before her to an audience as likely to know her for wearing a meat dress as for performing with Tony Bennett.