Lady Gaga Achieves a Hot 100 Feat for the First Time in a Dozen Years With ‘The Dead Dance’

Lady Gaga makes a lively entrance on the Billboard Hot 100 with her latest single, “The Dead Dance.”

The track launches at No. 40 on the Sept. 20-dated Hot 100 with 8.7 million official streams, 7.8 million in radio airplay audience and 5,000 sold in the United States Sept. 5-11, according to data tracker Luminate, after it was released Sept. 3. Boosting its profile, Gaga performed it, via a taped performance, in a medley with prior single “Abracadabra,” Sept. 7 on the MTV Video Music Awards, broadcast on CBS.

The superstar earns her 29th career top 40 Hot 100 hit and the fourth from her album Mayhem, released in March, with “The Dead Dance” now included on its deluxe edition. “Disease” hit No. 29 last November; “Die With a Smile,” with Bruno Mars, ruled for five weeks beginning in January; and “Abracadabra” conjured up a No. 13 peak in February.

Mayhem topped the Billboard 200 in its debut week in March, marking Gaga’s seventh No. 1.

The last time a Gaga album had generated as many as four top 40 Hot 100 entries? 2013, when Artpop also produced four: “Applause” (No. 4 peak); “Dope” (No. 8); “Do What You Want,” featuring R. Kelly (No. 13); and “Venus” (No. 32).

Two other Mother Monster albums achieved the feat, led by 2011’s Born This Way, which houses five top 40 Hot 100 hits, including four top 10s: the title cut (six weeks at No. 1); “The Edge of Glory” (No. 3); “You and I” (No. 6); “Judas” (No. 10); and “Hair” (No. 12).

Plus, Gaga’s 2008 debut LP, The Fame, includes four breakout classics that surged to the Hot 100’s top 10: “Just Dance,” featuring Colby O’Donis (No. 1, three weeks); “Poke Face” (No. 1, one week); “LoveGame” (No. 5); and “Paparazzi” (No. 6).

Beyond Mayhem, “The Dead Dance” is featured in the second season of Netflix’s Wednesday, in which Gaga appears. In August, she attended Netflix and Spotify’s Graveyard Gala in New York. “I’m so excited for you to see it,” she teased of the show’s return. She added that she had a “wonderful time” working on it and shouted out star Jenna Ortega and director/executive producer Tim Burton.

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