Lady Gaga’s Mayhem tops chart

Lady Gaga’s seventh studio album Mayhem debuted at No.1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart. The highest-charting single of the album is Abracadabra, which she premiered in a commercial break during the Grammys in February.

The collection of dance floor songs includes the previously released singles Disease, Abracadabra and Die With A Smile with Bruno Mars. Her seventh studio album, Mayhem, earned her the biggest opening week for an album by a woman this year with 219,000 units earned.

Gaga has debuted at No. 1 previously with 2020’s Chromatica, the 2018 soundtrack to A Star Is Born with Bradley Cooper, 2016’s Joanne, 2014’s Cheek to Cheek with Tony Bennett, 2013’s Artpop, and 2011’s Born This Way.

Blackpink member Jennie debuts at No. 7 for the first time as a solo artist with her debut LP, Ruby logging 56,000 units earned. It tallied nearly 40 million streams and 26,500 sales. A collection of pop and R&B, Ruby includes features from Childish Gambino, Doechii, Dominic Fike, FKJ, Dua Lipa and Kali Uchis.

Ruby is the third record by a Blackpink member to place in the top 10 of the albums chart, following Rosie by Rose, which debuted at No. 3, and Lisa’s Alter Ego, which arrived at No. 7. — ANI