Apr 5
Tickets Selling Like Hotcakes for Gaga's 'Mayhem Ball,' Despite High Prices
Kilian Melloy READ TIME: 2 MIN.
Lady Gaga's upcoming tour is already causing "Mayhem," and tickets have only just gone on sale!
"'The Mayhem Ball' tour will kick off in Vegas in July and includes three dates at New York City's Madison Square Garden and two at Chicago's United Center," Variety reports.
"In September, Gaga will head to Europe where she'll play three shows at the O2 in London before gracing arenas in Stockholm, Milan, Barcelona, Berlin, Amsterdam and Paris, among other cities. She will also headline Coachella this month."
But reports also say that some eager buyers are being confronted with sticker shock, as ticket prices for the tour are in the ionosphere.
"Tickets for the tour went on sale this week across multiple platforms, and some fans were not happy about the prices listed on Ticketmaster's website," NewsNationNow reported.
"One fan on X posted a screenshot of prices for Lady Gaga's Aug. 23 Madison Square Garden performance in New York, where tickets went up to $1,770 without additional fees. They called the pricing range 'disgusting.'
"Another fan posted on Reddit saying they saw dynamic pricing happen in real time with the singer's Seattle performance, where standard seats in the second row of the venue were $500 higher than the premium VIP package seats."
"Ticketmaster has been using dynamic pricing," the writeup added, "which allows companies to raise ticket prices based on demand, bots, fraudsters and resellers."
Relief may be in store for concertgoers thanks to none other than the music fan in chief.
"An executive order signed by President Donald Trump on Monday aims to crack down on ticket scalpers and harmful resale practices," NewsNationNow relayed.
Half a dozen dates were added to "The Mayhem Tour" to try to accommodate equally sky-high demand, the article detailed. Three of those dates are in New York, according to the New York Post.
In any case, the tour is sure to be a major moneymaker. Billboard projected that "The Mayhem Ball" would leave Mother Monster's earlier, $100 Million-grossing tours in the dust.
"An ever-expanding slate of shows have pushed Gaga's 2025 projections from the brink of $100 million to surging toward $125 million," the music mag noted. "But firm estimates for 'The MAYHEM Ball' are tricky, because much in the spirit of Lady Gaga, the 2025 routing zigs where she has previously zagged. To use figures from her most recent outing – $5.6 million and 41,700 tickets per show on 2022's 'The Chromatica Ball' – would be to ignore the nuances of this year's schedule."
Kilian Melloy serves as EDGE Media Network's Associate Arts Editor and Staff Contributor. His professional memberships include the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association, the Boston Online Film Critics Association, The Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association, and the Boston Theater Critics Association's Elliot Norton Awards Committee.
