In 2024, months before the release of her seventh studio album MAYHEM, Lady Gaga teased that she was returning to her dance-pop roots. Not only did she deliver, but it paid off in dividends, as Gaga finishes at No. 1 on Billboard’s 2025 year-end Top Dance/Electronic Artists ranking for the fifth time in her career, while her single “Abracadabra” leads the Top Dance/Pop Songs list.
MAYHEM also finishes at No. 2 on the year-end Top Dance Albums ranking, behind only Charli xcx’s 2024 smash Brat.
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Released March 7, MAYHEM debuted at No. 1 on the Top Dance Albums chart (dated March 22), and remained in the top three of the chart throughout the remainder of the 2025 year-end tracking period (running Oct. 26, 2024-Oct. 18. 2025). Brat, on the other hand, debuted at No. 1 on Top Dance Albums on the chart dated June 22, 2024 and held at No. 1 through the remainder of the 2024 tracking period (ending Oct. 19, 2024), helping it top the 2024 year-end Top Dance Albums list. The album remained in the top five of Top Dance Albums throughout the 2025 year-end tracking period, helping it claim the throne for the second consecutive year.
Billboard’s year-end music recaps represent aggregated metrics for each artist, title, label and music contributor on the weekly charts dated Oct. 26, 2024, through Oct. 18, 2025. The rankings for Luminate-based recaps reflect equivalent album units, airplay, sales or streaming during the weeks that the titles appeared on a respective chart during the tracking year. Any activity registered before or after a title’s chart run isn’t considered in these rankings. That methodology details, and the October-October time period, account for some of the differences between these lists and the calendar-year recaps that are independently compiled by Luminate.
Also boosting Gaga’s points on the year-end Top Dance/Electronic Artists ranking are two additional albums in the top 10 of the year-end Top Dance Albums list: 2008’s The Fame finishes at No. 3 and 2011’s Born This Way ranks at No. 7.
Gaga previously ranked at No. 1 on the year-end Top Dance/Electronic Artists ranking in 2021, 2020, 2011, 2010 and 2009. She now holds the record for the most years finishing as the top dance artist, breaking out of a tie with the Chainsmokers, who have finished at No. 1 four times (2016-2019).
Not only does Gaga lead among all Dance/Electronic Artists, but she’s also the inaugural leader of Billboard’s year-end Hot Dance/Pop Songs ranking, as “Abracadabra” tops the list. Billboard launched the chart in January 2025, and “Abracadabra” led for 18 weeks.
Charli xcx’s Brat dominated headlines and topped charts in 2024, and its success spilled into 2025. The album is the first project to lead the year-end Top Dance Albums ranking in consecutive years since the Chainsmokers’ Memories… Do Not Open lead the chart in in 2017 and 2018.
The only other album to lead the chart for multiple years is Gaga’s The Fame, which finished as the top dance/electronic album in 2009, 2010 and, miraculously, 2021. Gaga also ruled the list in 2011 with Born This Way, 2014 with ARTPOP and 2020 with Chromatica.
Marshmello and Kane Brown’s smash single “Miles On It” finishes 2025 at No. 1 on the year-end Hot Dance/Electronic Songs tally. The song spent a whopping 31 weeks at No. 1 on the chart during the tracking period, and spent the entire time in the top two.
“Miles On It” had an historic run, spending 50 total weeks at No. 1 on Hot Dance/Electronic Songs — making it the third-longest-leading hit in the chart’s history. It finished at No. 2 on the 2024 year-end Hot Dance/Electronic Songs list, behind Dua Lipa’s “Houdini.”
While this marks the first time Kane Brown has finished atop the year-end Hot Dance/Electronic Songs ranking, Marshmello finishes at No. 1 for the second time, following 2019’s “Happier,” with Bastille.” Marshmello joins Dua Lipa, the Chainsmokers and DJ Snake as the only artists to rule the chart in multiple years with different songs. Dua Lipa led in 2022 and 2024, with “Cold Heart (Pnau Remix)” with Elton John and “Houdini,” respectively; the Chainsmokers ruled with “Don’t Let Me Down,” featuring Daya, in 2016 and “Something Just Like This” with Coldplay in 2017; and DJ Snake led with “Turn Down For What” with Lil Jon in 2014 and “Lean On” with Major Lazer featuring MØ in 2015.
As for the Top New Dance Artists ranking, up-and-comer CHRYSTAL leads the list thanks to her breakthrough single “The Days.” The song finishes at No. 2 on the year-end Hot Dance/Electronic Songs ranking, thanks to 45 weeks spend on the chart during the tracking period. It debuted at No. 3 on Jan. 18, 2025 and peaked at No. 2 (stuck behind “Miles On It”). The song was a crossover success too, reaching No. 83 on the Billboard Hot 100 in February.
Notably, Billboard revamped its dance chart offerings during this year. Beginning on the charts dated Jan. 18, 2025, the songs eligible to debut on Hot Dance/Electronic are those primarily recorded by DJs or producers with an emphasis on electronic-based production. Hot Dance/Pop Songs, which launched the same week, featured titles with dance-centric vocals, melody and hooks by artists not considered rooted in the dance/electronic genre. Top Dance/Electronic Albums was also renamed Top Dance Albums.
