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The latest touring data is in, and "The Mayhem Ball" has officially cemented its place in the history books. Lady Gaga has reached a massive career milestone, as this trek becomes her first-ever tour to surpass the $300 million mark in total ticket sales. With 74 out of 87 shows currently reported, the numbers are staggering: the tour has grossed $317,713,088 so far, with a total of 1,473,528 tickets sold. This puts the average gross at roughly $4.29 million per night, with an average ticket price of $215.61. A major driver of this success has been the U.S. leg, which has officially overtaken "The Monster Ball" (2009-11) as her highest-grossing domestic tour. The first 36 shows in the States alone pulled in $136.9 million, proving that the demand for this production is at an all-time high. Recent multi-night highlights include: Inglewood (The Forum): $14.2M from 4 shows (53,847 attendees) Fort Worth (Dickies Arena): $7.2M from 2 shows (23,004 attendees) Glendale (Diamond Arena): $7.1M from 2 shows (26,926 attendees) Austin (Moody Center): $7.0M from 2 shows (24,158 attendees) Atlanta (State Farm Arena): $6.7M from 2 shows (23,250 attendees) Every reported date has been a 100% sell-out. With 4 shows still left to be officially reported, the final total is likely to climb significantly higher. It’s clear that this era is a commercial juggernaut for Gaga, setting a new standard for her future touring cycles. What do you all think the final gross will be once the last few shows are concluded?

i'm filling the role of "no one should have this much money" that is allllllways discussed in threads like this, don't waste ur time

I mean the number of tickets sold is always more impressive than the gross revenue.. These prices are just insanely high so of course the gross amount will explode

Isn't it disgusting that Janet's career was destroyed over a nipple, she was blacklisted, and she was not able to revived her career.. but Kanye, a Nazi, giving a victimized "buy my album" apology, and people are giving a second chance, like nothing ever happened. I guess a nipple is worst than a Nazi

"Gross" is right I love this tour, it's absolutely her best show, but the actual extortion is crazy. Tour gross is not something to celebrate.

I know they don’t care and it’s all marketing but still, YAAAS

Rihanna was the opening act for The Pussycat Dolls in 2006/2007

Don't you like chocolate

Did they really have the nerve to say that they launched Rihanna's career?! MAGAts truly are delusional people

BTS’ ARIRANG rules the Billboard 200 albums chart for a second week, earning 187,000 equivalent album units. Ye's new album BULLY (which was supposed to be released on March 20 but was postponed by a week to not be blocked by BTS) debuts at No. 2 with 152,000 equivalent album units earned in the tracking week ending Thursday, April 2. Of that sum, SEA units comprise 96,000 (equaling 98.43 million on-demand official streams), album sales comprise 56,000. During BULLY’s release week, Ye staged his first major U.S. concert in nearly five years, playing SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Calif., on April 1. First-week sales of BULLY were aided by its availability across multiple color vinyl variants, deluxe boxed sets containing branded merch and a copy of the CD, as well as signed vinyl and CD editions. x The album arrived at physical retail on March 27 (on CD, vinyl and cassette), and at digital retail and streaming services on March 28 and since it was late on streaming his label posted their own numbers for full week instead of Billboard's numbers.

Whoever lets you have access to the Internet shall pay for this

Easter? Ruined

Btw, no GGD reaction shows anger I’d like to give this poll an honest FVCK

In my opinion, they made a huge space between Joker and Mayhem after Venice screenings just to make sure these two are separated and avoid bad press.

Little Monsters Reaches New Career Low with "The Mayhem Ball" — Over $300M Net Loss!

1. Debi Tirar Mas Fotos 2. Probably Cowboy Carter idk havent heard 3. Probably When We All Fall Asleep idk havent heard 4. Probably Folklore idk havent heard 5. Probably We Are idk havent heard 6. Probably Harry's House idk havent heard 7. Probably Midnights idk havent heard

I think this is symptomatic of a very curious thing: beyond the potential benefits of a tool like AI, in the age of social media, it also serves a "beautifying" purpose, in other words, it helps people bridge the gap they perceive between their self-image and society's beauty standards. They recreate themselves as more beautiful within a fictional environment, no longer just by applying filters, but by presenting an entirely alternative version of themselves to the world. Given the tools available, it was predictable that the naturalness of our actions would be increasingly hidden by the artifice of constant exposure. Fascinating if you think about it! Also quite sad.

https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/charli-xcx-sky-ferreira-wuthering-heights-credit-statement-1236215575/

I think it is coming for the mayhem 10 year anniversary.

Legendary tour! Regardless of actual gross numbers, this whole era has been an amazing repeak and this tour is her best yet. So happy she’s back on top. Really happy I was able to see the Toronto shows! Will be sad when the tour is officially over, I’ve liked knowing that’s it’s still alive and going on somewhere these past months.

If I remember rightly the “story” of the BTWB was as follows. Set on GOAT, captured by the government, breaks free of the government and goes on the run, births a new race (the fans), takes over the planet bit by bit going to different “kingdoms” on the planet liberating people as anarchists and liberators, overthrows the government and kills Mother GOAT, heads to earth to spread the message of love and empowerment and integrate with the humans. Mayhem Ball is in simplistic form about Gaga (Mayhem/Lady in Red) chasing Stefani (Gaga) and essentially fighting for control. Basically Gaga having an internal monologue about wanting to be famous but also herself and then in the end they come together as one because she has accepted who she is now and is focusing on the happy side of things. It’s heavily inspired by real Operas and Aria’s as well actually.

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It's sad that antisemitism is only brought up as a point of critique in order to shut down people who dare not love Israel, while genuine antisemites(Kanye) are doing well. Like I wish people who think Zohran hates Jewish people would allocate at least half of their energy to Elon roman saluting, or to Kanye selling swastika merch.

Its actually a third chance. He apologised for antisemitism in 2023. Then released Heil Hitler and sold the merch. Now he's apologised again. And we wait....

The way many of their openers are bigger than them now

Don't call tonight unless you're Alejandro don't call tonight it's not because Fernando Don't call tonight tomorrow with Fernando I can hear everything you're saying from here don't call my name don't call my name don't call my name Stop hating on Alejandro 2.0

Both actually make me feel something and I'm dead inside. So I think both should win.

Ughhhhh that’s tough DCT’s sounds much better but at the same time, ARTPOP’s has such iconic lyrics/diction Like, if I have to pick my personal favorite, it has to be DCT… but I feel that it would be a blasphemy to not vote for ARTPOP As a result: I’m skipping this poll, sorry

Means social pressure actually work With these big companies decisions are always purely transactional. If u dont give them a reason to evaluate something as negative to their bottom line (in this case negative PR) they wont stop it

She beat that 200+ shows of the Monster Ball with 74 shows she could possibly cross 400 mil with the stadium shows.

Why is anyone surprised by Chloe when she literally did this 3 years ago lmao

Lauryn Hill? The same person who narrated a movie about decolonial movements in Africa and read from Fanon? Lmao f*ck off with this nazi bullshit

Idk about y'all but I love this song. Maybe it's because I'm getting engaged this year to my man but it's so sweet and relatable. The final chorus has so much emotion in it.

I think it sounds like a dirge because it’s an expression of her being afraid of opening herself up to love again, choosing to do so, but also still feeling all of the raw pain of the hurt she’s gone through in her past. Although it’s not the exactly the same, I remember when I realized that I was in love for the first time in a deep way, it was actually painful because I was afraid that I would lose it again and even thinking about admitting how much he mattered to me was overwhelming, so I feel like that’s kind of where’s she’s at in the song. She’s trying to feel hopeful in spite of herself.

Such a good take

Don't make this thread about me it's about the Bussy Scat Dolls

My personal interpretation is that the 16minute performance-art-transformation was like a russian doll, because when she first arrives with that giant pink dress you think "okay, extra" but then she reveals a black dress and it's like "wow ok it wasn't all, now that's a conventionally beautiful dress" and then surprisingly she takes it off to another pink dress so you're like "how is she even carrying that many heavy clothes?" And just when you think it'd be over, she's on her element: black nine inch heels, fishnets, bra and panties. Now that I've thought about it, it's fun how the first dress, a flamboyant pink, is Gaga, the second, black and neat, is Lady, the third, while the same flamboyant pink, is more Lady than Gaga, and the fourth outfit, black with glitter, is absolutely Gaga.

IM SHOCKED On a personal note im in shambles bc its the 1 of 3 nights in MTL I'm not going to

They are doing purely not to get cancelled not cuz they care lol

@Ladle Ghoulash had a really lucid interpretation of the Stygian influence earlier in the thread

I'm back to say that I absolutely love this album now. Every single song. All 18.I mean Chatroom feels a bit weak but all th other 17 I'm obsessed

There's no way you don't know about his MAGA/Nazi era bro was selling merch with swastikas He apologized but has yet to actually prove the apology was legitimate

Just like her saying at the premiere of Chromatica Ball "my fans hate when I say soon but its coming soon" about new music and we waited 5 months for a single and 11 months for the actual album

Who’s gonna tell her?

I don't know why you guys hate it so much. It's not her best ballad but I like it.