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Saturday, March 15, 2025

Lady Gaga’s “Mayhem” Has Strong Start with 223,000 Copies Sold, More than Half in Physical Sales

Lady Gaga’s tremendous marketing push for her new album has paid off.

“Mayhem” sold 223,000 copies this week. Of those, 140,000 were CDs and downloads.

That’s what every artist wants, with streaming — which pays less — the least of sales.

In the UK, she sold around 55,000 copies.

Still, “Mayhem” fell behind The Weeknd’s “Hurry Up Tomorrow,” which debuted with 450,000 copies despite having any hit singles. Very strange.

“Mayhem” is a hit that should produce an album’s worth of singles — six right now on the iTunes top 100 — and last right through the year. If Gaga does a fall tour, even more copies will be downloaded or sold.

Roger Friedman
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Roger Friedman began his Showbiz411 column in April 2009 after 10 years with Fox News, where he created the Fox411 column. His movie reviews are carried by Rotten Tomatoes, and he is a member of both the movie and TV branches of the Critics Choice Awards. His articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. He is also the writer and co-producer of "Only the Strong Survive," a selection of the Cannes, Sundance, and Telluride Film festivals, directed by DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus.

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