Lady Gaga named Billboard's Woman of the Year

Congratulations to Lady Gaga who has been named Billboard's 2015 Woman of the Year! Gaga will be honored with the award at the annual Women In Music event that will take place in New York City on December 11th.

"Billboard's Woman of the Year has always represented the finest in music, and the anointing of a key influential figure who drove the conversation for that year. No one embodies that more than Lady Gaga in 2015," said Janice Min, co-president and chief creative officer of Guggenheim Media. "From her show-stopping performance at the Oscars, to her co-headlining tour, to her philanthropic outreach and foundation promoting youth wellbeing and empowerment, to her new role as TV star, there is no woman dominating popular culture tastes and its evolution as much as she is today. What a force."

2015 has been one of the most successful years of Gaga's massive career so far: she received universal acclaim for her Sound of Music performance at the Oscars, played over 30 sold-out shows with the jazz legend Tony Bennett, and received the first ever "Icon" award at the Songwriters Hall of Fame. She's currently busy filming the highly-anticipated new season of American Horror Story, and recording her next album, due out in 2016.