Once upon a time, Bradley Cooper was like, “Tell me somethin’, girl, are you happy in this modern world? Or do you need more?” And Lady Gaga was like, “I’m off the deep end, watch as I dive in…to this giant pool of money.” Basically, what I’m getting at is that Lady Gaga is rich. Very rich. And she’s about to become *even richer* thanks to Mayhem Ball, which—according to Billboard—is estimated push Gaga’s 2025 projections “from the brink of $100 million to surging toward $125 million.”
But I digress! The artist (who’s leading the nominations for the 2025 VMAs with 12 nods, casual) made her money thanks to multiple ingenious revenue streams, but let’s start with the obvious.
Her Music
If you’d like to know exactly how much money Gaga has made through her music, the answer is HOLY CRAP SO MUCH. According to RIAA, she has sold $82.5 million worth of digital singles. And her album sales are pretty fire, too—Born This Way sold more than a million copies in its first week alone.
That deserves some…wait for it…APPLAUSE. (Heh.)
Her Tours
So turns out, one of the main ways musicians make their millions is from touring. As you already know if you’re a Little Monster, Lady Gaga’s tours are spectacular—and they’ve earned her a lot of money. Keep in mind that she doesn’t get to keep all this money (there are people to pay!), but here’s a sample of just how impressive her sales have been: Monster Ball—which was by far her biggest tour—took home $227.4 million.
Oh, and how can we forget Gaga’s Vegas residency? She literally made $1 million a NIGHT onstage and became the fifth woman with a Vegas residency to achieve the half-a-billion-dollars earnings milestone, which is a BFD. Plus, she had Chromatica Ball tour, which surely brought in a little (read: a lot of) $$$—$112 million, to be exact.
I can only imagine how much she’s going to rake in from her eighth (!!) concert tour, Mayhem Ball…but things are looking pretty lucrative, considering she grossed $36.9 million from its first 10 sold-out shows alone.
Her Endorsements
For the most part, brands that work with celebs aren’t like, “Here’s precisely how much we’re paying them!” but it’s safe to assume Gaga got paid plenty when she was made creative director of Polaroid, and let’s not forget her glamorous Versace campaign from 2013:
FYI, Lady Gaga also makes tons of money on merch, which includes her line of perfumes. Her debut fragrance, Fame, was released in 2012, and as of 2013, it earned more than $1 billion worldwide. Yeah, that’s billion with a “b.” Oh, and then there’s her truly iconic collab with Oreo for the launch of her Chromatica-themed cookies.
Gaga also teamed up with Dom Perignon (yep, that fancy-ass champagne brand) to release vintage bottles from 2008—the same year she released her debut album, The Fame. She’s also raked in big bucks from partnerships with Tiffany & Co., Cotton On, and Tudor Watches, to name just a few.
Her Makeup Line
Following in the footsteps of her good friend Rihanna, Gaga made a makeup line of her own called Haus Laboratories with her longtime makeup artist Sarah Tanno.
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According to WWD, Haus Labs was the third best-selling celebrity makeup brand of 2020 (behind Fenty and Kylie Cosmetics), with more than $141.7 million of media value earnings.
Her Movie/TV Roles
Not only did Lady Gaga star in the fifth season of American Horror Story (for which she won a Golden Globe!), but she also starred in 2018’s biggest blockbuster A Star Is Born AND played the lead role opposite Adam Driver in the Oscar-nominated film House of Gucci.
It’s unclear how much Gaga’s made from her acting gigs, but A Star Is Born had a relatively small budget by Hollywood standards (just $36 million), so her initial take-home for the film likely wasn’t that huge despite her name recognition.
As for House of Gucci, Parade reported in November 2021 that her exact salary isn’t known and would likely be based in part on the film’s performance at the box office (it reportedly pulled in almost $157 million worldwide, FWIW). Whatever Gaga made for the role, she definitely earned it, considering she says she spent a solid year and a half living in character as Patrizia Reggiani for the sake of her art (and our entertainment).
More recently, she starred in the second Joker movie, Joker: Folie à Deux, alongside Joaquin Phoenix. Her salary, you ask? Per Variety, that’d be a cool $12 million.
Her Homes
According to Forbes, Gaga’s real estate holdings include a mansion in Malibu worth $23 million and Frank Zappa’s former home in Hollywood, which she got for $5.25 million. We’ve seen the outside of her home courtesy of Vogue, so enjoy!
According to Forbes, Gaga’s net worth in January 2021 was an estimated $150 million—but Celebrity Net Worth reports that in 2025, it’s twice that amount at $300 million. Read it and weep. And I mean that literally because I am fully crying rn.
