Lady Gaga Breaks Monthly Audience Record
Lady Gaga has shattered the record for the largest monthly audience by a female artist on Spotify, now exceeding 123 million monthly listeners.
With 123.7 million monthly listeners as of Tuesday (February 19), Abracadabra the singer currently ranks just behind Bruno Mars (150.7 m) and The Weeknd (125.8 m) in the overall platform ratings.
Recent Collaborations and Chart Success
About three weeks ago, Bruno Mars became the first artist to hit 150 million monthly listeners on Spotify, achieving this milestone a little over two months after surpassing The Weeknd’s previous record of 120.7 million monthly listeners.
The success of both Mars and Lady Gaga on the platform can be partially attributed to their collaboration, Die with a Smile, released in August 2024. The track has accumulated 1.89 billion streams on Spotify to date. Recently, the song completed five weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 and is currently positioned at number 4. This track adds to an impressive chart history that began with her first hit, Just Dance, in 2009, which spent 49 weeks on the chart, followed by Poker Face in the same year, and Shallow with Bradley Cooper in 2019, which had a 45-week chart run.
Gaga’s last solo single, Abracadabra, is also making waves, debuting at No. 1 on the Hot Dance/Pop Songs chart and reaching No. 29 on the Hot 100.
Upcoming Album and Genre Diversity
Both Die with a Smile and Abracadabra will feature on her seventh studio album, Chaos, scheduled for release on March 7 through Interscope. The artist unveiled a tracklist of 14 songs on Instagram, including a collaboration with French producer Gesaffelstein titled Killah.
Here’s the full tracklist:
- Disease
- Abracadabra
- Garden Eden
- An Ideal Celebrity
- Disappear Into You
- Killah ft. Gesaffelstein
- Zombie
- Love
- How Bad You Want Me
- Do Not Call Tonight
- The Shadow of Man
- Beast
- The Blade of Grass
- Die with a Smile
Gaga’s seventh studio album follows her Billboard 200-topping LP, Chromatica, released in 2020. In a recent interview with The Los Angeles Times, she described the album as “jumping around genres in a way that feels almost chaotic.”
“The cost of my love for music encompasses so many different genres and styles,” she shared. “Each song I wrote is like a memory of all these mistakes I’ve made in my life. But it ultimately ends in a very happy place.”
During an interview with Elle, Gaga noted that her influences for Chaos range from “90s alternative, electronic beats, Prince and Bowie melodies, guitar and attitude, funk bass lines, to French electronic dance and analog synthesizers.”
This project is set to be deeply personal, as Gaga revealed to Vogue that it contains “a lot of pain associated with this journey.”
Unstoppable, Lady Gaga is set to pull double duties on Saturday Night Live on March 8, serving as both the host and musical guest. This performance follows her appearance on SNL celebrating the show’s 50th anniversary last weekend, where she performed Shallow and joined Andy Samberg for a musical number of D*ck in a Box.
