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Spotify has unveiled a “paws up” statue on Copacabana Beach in Brazil to celebrate Lady Gaga’s remarkable year on the charts.  Early this morning, Brazilian fans discovered a new statue on their favorite beach. Spotify installed the “paws up” tribute to celebrate Lady Gaga’s achievements this year, which include her hit album MAYHEM, worldwide singles like “Die With a Smile,” “Abracadabra,” and “The Dead Dance,” one of the highest-grossing tours of her career that is still running, a Coachella performance, and her unforgettable record breaking show on Copacabana Beach. In May, Lady Gaga set the record for the most attended concert by a female artist in history with an audience of 2.5 million fans at her Copacabana show. For one unforgettable night, fans from around the world filled the beach to welcome her back after 12 years away from the country. The free concert was widely praised by global media and left a lasting mark on the nation, becoming a cultural phenomenon known for its imagery, staging, and iconic outfits. It is not yet known how long the statue will remain on display, but fans in Brazil can enjoy it while it lasts and can also scan a QR code that features a special message from Lady Gaga herself. Brasil_Lets_Go.mp4 Spotify also revealed that Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars’s “Die With a Smile” was the platform’s top global song of 2025 with 1.7 billion streams, confirming its position as the number one song of all time on the United World Chart. Meanwhile, Gaga’s “Abracadabra” was the most streamed solo female track of the year on Spotify, Apple Music, and Deezer. Lady Gaga is currently touring Australia with her MAYHEM Ball tour, which will continue in Japan before returning to the United States for a second leg next year.

Lady Gaga returned to chat with Stephen Colbert and take part in the “Colbert Questionert”, a segment where Stephen asks guests a series of personal questions. Watch the interview below to learn about her favorite sandwiches, the animal she finds the scariest, and her favorite scent.

Lady Gaga will appear on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on December 1 to take the "Colbert Questionert". The segment will air on CBS at 11:35PM ET. Lady Gaga last appeared on the show earlier this fall to perform an acoustic version of "Vanish Into You" and discuss her latest album, MAYHEM.

A week after she scored seven nominations at the 68th Grammy Awards, Lady Gaga graced the cover of Rolling Stone's December magazine to talk about "MAYHEM," finding love and touring. This marks Gaga's fourth time on the cover of the magazine and her first since 2011. Read the cover story here, and check out some highlights below. On mental health Gaga opened up about the mental health struggles she faced after the release of "ARTPOP" in 2013. She said "ARTPOP" altered the trajectory of her career because it "was the first time that [she] ever had major criticism about a piece of work" she made. From there, she discussed how her mental health problems continued through the next decade. She said she did "A Star is Born" on lithium, a powerful mood stabilizer, and had a psychotic break after filming on the Joanne World Tour: "I needed to take a break. I couldn't do anything ... I completely crashed. It was really scary. There was a time where I didn't think I could get better. ... I feel really lucky to be alive." She continued to say she doesn't think she "was doing very well" during the filming of "House of Gucci," and spoke about how "Chromatica" is "very literal" because it's all she had: "I didn't have a lot of the same type of poetry inside of me because I sort of lost it." This concept is explored in the "Disease" music video, which she said "is so deliberately about somebody that wants to harm you – and it being you." After filming it, she said she went into a dark place that revealed to her that she was not done healing. Thankfully, she now considers herself "a healthy, whole person," thanks in part to "MAYHEM": "One of the things I'm most grateful for is gaining all my artistic faculties back to make this record. I had to dig very, very deep, and I had to change a lot of my life and recenter around what I needed as a human being." On being in love Another factor in getting her back on track is her relationship with Michael Polansky, about whom she said, "Being in love with someone that cares about the real me made a very big difference." It's Polansky who told her she needed to reclaim her music, and in the process, she asked him for his input. Polansky is credited as a co-writer on six "MAYHEM" songs, which surprised him because his contributions were not intentional. "It was very touching to me that she wanted to acknowledge me," he said. Andrew Watt, a close collaborator through the "MAYHEM" sessions credited Polansky with being a crucial stabilizer in the recording process and said he has "that all-knowing Buddha-type energy." In turns out she secretly had another business venture with Polansky as she co-founded and sits on the board of directors of Outer Biosciences, a skin-health research firm that Polansky said "was her idea." "When she talks about us being partners, it kind of looks like it all goes one direction, but she's the most incredible support to me as well," he said. They plan to get married soon, and Gaga added that "being a mom is the thing [she wants] the most." On the MAYHEM Ball The narrative of MAYHEM Ball, Gaga's largest and longest tour in a decade, is a dream-logic version of parts of her real life. She broke it down and said the show starts with Mayhem, "the most egocentric side" of her, that announces she's the queen with a desire of torturing the younger version of herself "as a way of teaching her how to be great." The Mayhem character's plan doesn't go as planned, though. "I decided I wanted to make it something that everybody could understand and love," she said, "and it didn't have to be the most dark thing that I'd ever created. Isn't that Mayhem talking? 'I have to be dark.' And, like, what is that in me that I have to be the toughest or the most edgy?" While she still panics at the start of every show, but "the rehearsal of self" saves her and puts her back in the moment.

Lady Gaga has officially received multiple nominations at the 68th Annual Grammy Awards, highlighting the continued artistic impact of her most recent era. This year’s nominations span several major categories across pop, dance, traditional, and vocal performance, reflecting Gaga’s wide-ranging creative presence in contemporary music. Lady Gaga's 68th Annual Grammy Award Nominations "MAYHEM" Album of the Year Best Pop Vocal Album "Abracadabra" Record of the Year Song of the Year Best Dance Pop Recording "Disease" Best Pop Solo Performance "Harlequin" Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album Note: Abracadabra (Gesaffelstein Remix) is also nominated for Best Remixed Recording, but the award only goes to the remixer (Gesaffelstein). Lady Gaga’s nominations this year mark several landmark moments in Grammy history: With 7 nominations at the 68th Annual Grammy Awards, Lady Gaga is the most-nominated woman at the ceremony this year. Lady Gaga is the first artist in Grammy history to have her work nominated across the entire Pop & Dance/Electronic fields. MAYHEM has achieved 9 total Grammy nominations, making it the most nominated album of Lady Gaga’s career. Lady Gaga is the first artist ever to be nominated for Best Pop Vocal Album and Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album in the same year. With 5 career Album of the Year nominations, Lady Gaga now ranks 4th among women in Grammy history for most nominations in the category — following Taylor Swift (7), Barbra Streisand (6), and Beyoncé (6). She now holds 45 career Grammy nominations. The 2026 Grammy Awards will take place on February 1, 2026, at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. The ceremony will be broadcast live on CBS and will also be available to stream globally via Paramount+.

Lady Gaga and the cast of Netflix’s “Wednesday” season two fully embody the Halloween spirit as two new promotional videos were released in honor of the holiday. One is the long-awaited ASMR video with Gaga and co-star Catherine Zeta-Jones, who plays Morticia Adams. The other video features Gaga doing “The Dead Dance” with Emma Myers (Enid Sinclair) and Evie Templeton (Agnes DeMille). In September, Myers and Templeton joined Gaga on stage at a MAYHEM Ball show at London’s O2 Arena during “LoveDrug.” On Nov. 1, “The Dead Dance” became the seventh song from “MAYHEM” to reach 100 million streams on Spotify.

Lady Gaga attended a special Halloween event in Barcelona hosted by YouTube on Friday, October 31, called MAYHEM Halloween. The artist, dressed as the “Garden of Eden”, carried a shovel and wore a gown by Matieres Fecales styled by Hunter Clemens. She later claimed on Instagram, According to event guests, Lady Gaga’s appearance was a surprise. Gaga danced alongside Little Monsters to her latest hits, including “The Dead Dance” and “Abracadabra,” with everyone dressed in their spookiest attire. Gaga’s attendance of YouTube’s event comes in between her three sold-out MAYHEM Ball shows at the Palau Saint Jordi. The artists next stop on the world tour is at the Uber Arena in Berlin on November 4 and 5.