Lady Gaga‘s recently-wrapped ‘Mayhem Ball’ tour grossed $419.5m (£340m), becoming one of the ten highest-selling tours by a female artist in history.
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Last week (April 13), Gaga played the final show of the trek, wrapping 12 months of live performances across five continents. According to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore, the tour grossed $419.5 million and sold just under two million tickets.
The publication broke down her time on tour into two categories. The ‘Mayhem Ball’ began on July 16, 2025 in Las Vegas and ran through North America, Europe, Australia, and Japan before closing at Madison Square Garden.
However, she also played two shows in Mexico City and four in Singapore in advance of the tour, and, in the thick of those dates, she also headlined both weekends of Coachella last year and played a record-breaking free show on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Including those events, it’s estimated that Gaga performed for an audience of more than 4.5 million people over the last year, with ‘The Mayhem Ball’ now Gaga’s highest-grossing tour. Not only a personal best, but it’s among the highest-grossing treks of the 2020s, and is now among the 10 highest-grossing pop tours ever, and the biggest pop trek this side of The Eras Tour.
The ‘Mayhem Ball’ followed its namesake album, which became Gaga’s eighth to earn a Grammy win. It earned four stars from NME, with a review noting that, “ultimately, ‘Mayhem’ feels like a great Gaga album because it’s just so much fun.
“At times, it’s a bit like reconnecting with an old friend who makes sense even when they seem to be chatting nonsense. Seventeen years after she broke through with ‘Just Dance’, Lady Gaga remains pop’s foremost agent of impeccably crafted chaos.”
The record landed at number 19 on NME’s list of the best albums of 2025, while ‘Abracadabra’ was named the number 20 song of 2025.
When Gaga bought ‘Mayhem’ to London last year, NME gave the show a glowing five-star review. “Her capacity for ideas and invention comes to life on the stage,” it read. “Never one to hold back, the theatrical pop auteur is in world-building mode, creating a fantastical, camp horror universe within the arena that sees her do battle with another version of herself, at times flanked by skeletons, witches and plague doctors.”
As for other high-ranking tours, last year saw Beyoncé‘s ‘Cowboy Carter’ trek named the highest-grossing tour of 2025 ahead of Oasis’ comeback, despite the Manchester band selling more tickets.
The singer’s 32-show ran up until July and according to data from Pollstar, it topped the charts with a total of $407.6million (£305.5million), selling a total of 1,596,165 tickets at an average price of $255.36 (£189.16).
Oasis’ ‘Live ‘25’ tour came in at second in the list, with its 36 shows taking in a gross of $405.4million (£300.3million). Due to a lower average ticket price of $181.93 (£134.76), however, Liam and Noel Gallagher and co actually sold the highest number of tickets in 2025 at 2,228,471.
Also placing high in the chart are Coldplay’s ‘Music Of The Spheres’ tour, which the data shows grossed $390million (£289million) for its 2025 dates at an average ticket price of $133.80 (£99.10), and Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s joint tour, which grossed $358million (£265million).
Back in 2024, Taylor Swift‘s career-spanning ‘Eras’ tour run grossed a record-breaking $2billion through ticket sales.
Even by the tour’s midpoint, Swift had already made history when the tour became the first to gross $1billion (£796million). Prior to that, it was estimated that, once it had concluded, the tour would be the most lucrative in music history.
It was later revealed that in total, the worldwide trek sold $2,077,618,725 (£1.6billion) worth of tickets, per the New York Times.
