Lady Gaga is back with a monster week on Billboard's charts, thanks to her new album, MAYHEM. The set blasts in at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 219,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S.

Lady Gaga’s “Mayhem” has made its mark as the No. 1 album in the United States this week. Her seventh studio album, “Mayhem” earns Gaga the biggest opening week for an album by a woman this year with 219,000 units earned, per Luminate. “Mayhem” also granted Gaga her biggest streaming debut yet, launching to the …

During her interview with The New York Times published on March 8, the "Rain on Me" singer revealed that her fiancé Michael Polansky talked her out of making Mayhem a "grunge" album.