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Apple Music Live: Mayhem Requiem (2026)

Where the lyrics of Apple Music Live: Mayhem Requiem take you, and where it was really made.

The concert was staged as an encore to the Mayhem Ball, with the tour's opera-house set presented as if it had been reduced to rubble.

Key places

Recorded at the Wiltern Theatre (2026)

Recording site Wiltern Theatre — The concert was recorded at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles on January 14, 2026, a one-night-only event held between the tour's stadium dates in Australia and Japan. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• Apple Music Live: Mayhem Requiem is a concert film and live album by Lady Gaga
• Released May 14, 2026 through Interscope Records as part of the promotion for Mayhem (2025)
• Recorded at a one-night-only concert at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles on January 14, 2026
• Teased at the final Mayhem Ball show at Madison Square Garden on April 13, 2026
• Gaga performed the full standard edition of Mayhem in album order, in a darker and more stripped-back interpretation
• Conceived as an encore to the Mayhem Ball, using a destroyed version of the tour's opera-house set

Background

• Mayhem was released March 7, 2025 as Gaga's sixth solo studio album, through Interscope and Streamline Records
• The Mayhem Ball was her eighth concert tour, and its combined shows grossed $419.5 million
• The Wiltern event took place between the tour's stadium dates in Australia and Japan
• A private event organized with Apple Music, with a venue capacity of about 2,300 people
• Tickets were offered by lottery to fans who signed up for Gaga's updates, priced between $225 and $450, and sold out
• Attendees had to place recording devices in locked pouches at the venue

Recording

• Apple Music recorded the performance for its Apple Music Live series
• The staging was built around crumbled stone, shattered stained glass and pipe organs rising from the debris
• Lasers, smoke, neon lighting and shifting colors were the main visual effects, with the staging largely static

Cover

• Rose Zhang, Apple Music senior art director, also designed the album's cover artwork

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Tracklist

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Artist

Formation

• Born Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta on March 28, 1986 in Manhattan, New York City.
• Signed with Interscope Records in 2007; Streamline Records was an Interscope imprint.
• Debut album The Fame (2008) and reissue The Fame Monster (2009) brought global recognition.

Career

• Born This Way (2011) debuted atop the Billboard 200 with 1.1 million first-week sales in the US.
• Expanded into jazz with Tony Bennett on Cheek to Cheek (2014) and Love for Sale (2021).
• Acting: American Horror Story: Hotel (2015–2016), A Star Is Born (2018), House of Gucci (2021).
• Chromatica (2020) and Mayhem (2025) returned to pop; the Mayhem Ball concluded in April 2026 as her highest-grossing tour.
• Estimated sales of 124 million records; 16 Grammy Awards; 22 MTV Video Music Awards.
• Philanthropy and activism focus on mental health and LGBTQ rights; founded the Born This Way Foundation in 2012.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

At release

• Variety, Steven J. Horowitz: described the concert as the other side of the Mayhem Ball, removing arena-scale spectacle for a more static, music-centered performance
• Horowitz: compared it to Gaga's Harlequin Live and Las Vegas Jazz & Piano residency, and wrote that the concert brought her artistic ambitions back to the music
• San Francisco Chronicle, Tony Bravo: described both the concert film and live album as imaginative reinventions of the Mayhem material
• Bravo: said the costumes were a masterclass in dark glamour that avoided resembling a Tim Burton film character
• Paper, Taylor Lomax: said the piano-led version of Abracadabra reflected Gaga's strength as a vocalist and musician
• Lomax: singled out Killah for its industrial reworking and Die with a Smile for its vocoder-heavy reinvention
• Highsnobiety, Emma Madden: remarked that it is rare to see a pop star of this magnitude scaled down like this, noting the absence of dancers and a small group of musicians
• Jenesaispop, Jordi Bardají: wrote that the show did not simply replicate the tour but reworked the songs through new staging and costumes
• Bardají: called the remixes a real gift, and found Don't Call Tonight less effective
• Critics in general praised the stripped-down presentation, Gaga's creative approach, and the reworked arrangements

Records

• UK Album Downloads Chart: debut at number 2
• UK Albums Sales Chart: debut at number 50 for the week of May 28, 2026
• US Top Dance Albums chart: debut at number 12 for the week of May 30, 2026, Gaga's tenth entry on the chart
• ARIA Albums Chart, Australia: debut at number 65
• Billboard Japan Download Albums chart: debut at number 62 for the week of May 20, 2026, after six days of availability
• Switzerland: number 42
• France: number 172
• Belgium: number 186 in Flanders and number 142 in Wallonia

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• Gaga wore an archival red-and-black Givenchy dress from Alexander McQueen's Fall/Winter 1997–98 collection during the procession at The Grove on the film's debut day.
• Brazil was the only country outside the United States to screen the film theatrically, with free tickets for active Apple Music subscribers through the Vivo app.
• Shazam users could unlock themed wallpapers and Apple Watch faces tied to the project.
• The release includes video performances of each song and interlude.
• Killah contains elements of Nine Inch Nails' Closer, and Die with a Smile contains elements of Kavinsky's Nightcall, with both songs' credits adjusted accordingly.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

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