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It’s been a monolithic twelvemonth for Lady Gaga, who returned to the apical of some the Billboard Hot 100 and Billboard 200 albums illustration (with “Die With a Smile” alongside Bruno Mars and Mayhem, respectively), headlined Coachella and launched an acclaimed arena tour. This month, she continues her winning streak with an acting crook connected the deed Netflix bid Wednesday, and the accompanying caller opus “The Dead Dance.”
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After an incomplete archetypal week of tracking pursuing its Wednesday, Sept. 3 release, “The Dead Dance” debuts astatine No. 40 connected the Hot 100 successful its archetypal afloat week of release. It’s Gaga’s 3rd apical 40 deed of 2025 connected the chart, pursuing “Smile” and the No. 13-peaking “Abracadabra” — and soon aft its release, it was besides included connected a recently expanded variation of Mayhem, on with 2 further caller tracks, “Can’t Stop the High” and “Kill for Love.”
Is the song’s debut higher oregon little than we expected? And is this Wednesday/”Dead Dance” epoch present a large portion of Gaga’s 2025? Billboard staffers sermon these questions and much below.
1. Lady Gaga’s “The Dead Dance” debuts astatine No. 40 connected the Hot 100 this week successful its archetypal afloat week of tracking. Is that bow lower, higher oregon astir what you expected?
Katie Atkinson: Top 40 feels astir right, arsenic an end-of-Mayhem, Wednesday-cameo dainty for each the Little Monsters. This is simply a amusive opus with a large bushed that’s chopped from the aforesaid cloth arsenic morbid disco classics similar “Murder connected the Dancefloor” oregon “Heads Will Roll,” and Gaga is 1 of lone a fistful of artists who tin accidental Tim Burton directed a euphony video for them. But aft a dependable twelvemonth of Gaga output, determination mightiness not person been arsenic overmuch anticipation for caller euphony arsenic determination had been. Having said that, “The Dead Dance” did debut successful the apical 10 of the Global 200 chart, truthful planetary fans were hungrier for much ghoulish Gaga.
Chris Claxton: I deliberation that’s really little than expected. This way had everything going for it, a large VMA performance, a viral TikTok dance, a diagnostic successful Netflix’s large summertime deed Wednesday, a Tim Burton–directed video, and much yet it lone peaked astatine No. 40. Not that No. 40 is atrocious by immoderate means, but fixed however perfectly Lady Gaga executed each move, I was expecting it to illustration overmuch higher.
Stephen Daw: Higher that what I would person primitively expected — mostly due to the fact that I was not expecting a one-off azygous written and performed for a Netflix show to bash immense numbers connected the illustration — but little than I thought it mightiness get aft I heard it for the archetypal time. It’s highly catchy, fits into the dependable of her past medium and has a precise well-produced euphony video. With each of that, and a unrecorded debut astatine the VMAs, I thought the opus mightiness get a bigger boost, but breaking into the precocious echelons of this illustration has proven to beryllium harder and harder lately.
Kyle Denis: Definitely lower. Between a Wednesday sync, a caller euphony video and a VMAs show — not to notation an accompanying creation that’s intelligibly jockeying for TiKTok virality à la “Bloody Mary” — I expected a 5op 25 debut astatine the precise least.
Andrew Unterberger: Given the antithetic timing of the release, and the information that Gaga’s solo streaming debuts aren’t ever the flashiest, I deliberation “Dead Dance” creeping into the apical 40 is astir apt a small amended than I expected. The existent question is however agelong it tin bent connected the chart, which whitethorn beryllium up to whether oregon not vigor ends up picking up connected it.