![Lady Gaga in a white outfit holding a microphone while singing](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Joanne_World_Tour_%2837331557385%29.png/220px-Joanne_World_Tour_%2837331557385%29.png)
American singer Lady Gaga has recorded material for seven studio albums and three extended plays (EP), and has been featured on songs on other artists' respective albums. After being dropped from a solo contract with Def Jam Recordings, Gaga worked as a songwriter for Sony/ATV Music Publishing, where Akon helped her sign a joint deal with Interscope Records and his own label KonLive Distribution.[1][2] She released her debut album The Fame (2008), which produced the global chart-topping singles "Just Dance" and "Poker Face".[3] She collaborated with different producers, primarily RedOne, Fernando Garibay, Martin Kierszenbaum, and Rob Fusari. With influences of the 1980s pop music, the album discusses Gaga's desire for fame, love, sexuality, money and drugs.[4][5] A reissue of her first album, titled The Fame Monster (2009), explores the darker side of fame and contained eight newly recorded songs, including "Speechless" – written solely by Gaga – "Alejandro", "Telephone" and "Bad Romance".[6]
On her second full-length album, Born This Way (2011), Gaga reunited with RedOne and Garibay, and sought new collaborators, including DJ Snake, DJ White Shadow, Jeppe Laursen, and Robert John "Mutt" Lange; the lattermost produced the country rock song "You and I", written solely by Gaga. The album's themes include sexuality, religion, freedom, feminism and individualism. Primarily influenced by synthpop and dance-pop, it incorporated musical genres which had not been previously explored by Gaga, such as electronic rock and techno. "Americano" and "Scheiße" included Spanish and faux-German lyrics, respectively.[7] Gaga's third album Artpop (2013) included the singles "Applause" and "Do What U Want". As executive producer, she enlisted longtime collaborators DJ White Shadow and RedOne, and for the first time Zedd and Madeon. Described as "a celebration and a poetic musical journey",[8] the album revolves around her personal views of fame, love, sex, feminism, self-empowerment, overcoming addiction and reactions to media scrutiny.[9]
In 2014, Gaga and Tony Bennett released a collaborative album titled Cheek to Cheek, which consists of jazz standards and swing classics from composers such as George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, Duke Ellington and Irving Berlin. Her fifth studio album, Joanne (2016), which had Mark Ronson as the executive producer, is a more personal album, with family influences.[10] In 2020, she released Chromatica, a house-influenced album with lyrics that thematize mental health, depression and finding love through hardship.[11] It features guest vocals from Ariana Grande on "Rain on Me", Blackpink on "Sour Candy" and Elton John on "Sine from Above". Her second album with Bennett, titled Love for Sale, followed in 2021, where the duo covered Cole Porter songs.[12]
In addition to her studio work, Gaga has recorded songs for film soundtracks, including "Fashion" from Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009), and "Til It Happens to You" from The Hunting Ground (2015). She and Bradley Cooper recorded the soundtrack for the movie A Star Is Born, released in 2018, which they composed with other collaborators. It contains elements of blues rock, country and pop.[13] For the 2022 film Top Gun: Maverick, Gaga wrote the song "Hold My Hand",[14] and also composed its score alongside Hans Zimmer and Harold Faltermeyer.[15]
Songs
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• | Indicates song containing non-English lyrics |
# | Indicates songs with background vocals by Lady Gaga |
† | Indicates songs covered by Lady Gaga |
‡ | Indicates song written solely by Lady Gaga |
![A shot of Donnie Wahlberg, looking away from the camera.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Donnie_Wahlberg_2010.jpg/170px-Donnie_Wahlberg_2010.jpg)
![RedOne facing forward.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/RedOne_2017_press_image_%28cropped%29.jpg/170px-RedOne_2017_press_image_%28cropped%29.jpg)
![Flo Rida smiling at the 2012 Logie Awards.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Flo_Rida2012.jpg/170px-Flo_Rida2012.jpg)
![Nick Dresti standing and looking straight ahead.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Spacecowboy.jpg/170px-Spacecowboy.jpg)
![Beyoncé on the red carpet waving with photographers behind her.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Beyonce_Dreamgirls_cropped.jpg/170px-Beyonce_Dreamgirls_cropped.jpg)
![Justin Timberlake at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Justin_Timberlake_Cannes_2013.jpg/170px-Justin_Timberlake_Cannes_2013.jpg)
![T.I. performing in Bumbershoot in 2008.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/T.I._at_Bumbershoot.jpg/170px-T.I._at_Bumbershoot.jpg)
![Tony Bennett is opening his arms, and holding a mic in his hand.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/TonyBennett210-1000.jpg/170px-TonyBennett210-1000.jpg)
![Diane Warren holding a mic.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Diane_Warren_03_b.jpg/170px-Diane_Warren_03_b.jpg)
![Mark Ronson wearing red T-shirt with a black jacket.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Mark_Ronson_and_Jennifer_Su%2C_2011_%28cropped%29.jpg/170px-Mark_Ronson_and_Jennifer_Su%2C_2011_%28cropped%29.jpg)
![Kevin Parker playing the guitar during a concert.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Tame_Impala_%40_Metropolis_Fremantle_%2827_5_2010%29_%284702471053%29.jpg/170px-Tame_Impala_%40_Metropolis_Fremantle_%2827_5_2010%29_%284702471053%29.jpg)
![Hillary Lindsey performing with a mic on her hand.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Hillary_Lindsey%2C_ASCAP_concert%2C_2011.jpg/170px-Hillary_Lindsey%2C_ASCAP_concert%2C_2011.jpg)
![Beck playing the guitar during a concert.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Beck_2006-01.jpg/170px-Beck_2006-01.jpg)
![Bradley Cooper looking straight ahead.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Bradley_Cooper_%2829670050807%29_%28cropped_2%29.jpg/170px-Bradley_Cooper_%2829670050807%29_%28cropped_2%29.jpg)
![Ariana Grande performing and holding a mic in her hand.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Dangerous_Woman_Tour2.jpg/170px-Dangerous_Woman_Tour2.jpg)
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/BLACKPINK_PUBG_Mobile_Sept_2020_ad_%28derived%29.jpg/170px-BLACKPINK_PUBG_Mobile_Sept_2020_ad_%28derived%29.jpg)
Notes
[edit]- ^ There are no published credits for "1000 Doves" (Piano Demo) according to the album booklet.[17]
- ^ Gaga performs one line in Spanish on "Alejandro".[21]
- ^ Gaga performs "Americano" in both English and Spanish.[24]
- ^ Gaga and Bennett recorded "Baby, It's Cold Outside" for Barnes & Noble's 2015 holiday campaign.[28]
- ^ Gaga performs a few lines in French on "Bad Romance".[29]
- ^ Gaga performs a few lines in French and Spanish on "Bloody Mary".[32]
- ^ a b c Gaga performs a few words in Italian on "Born This Way".[33]
- ^ Gaga recorded alternate vocals and lyrics for "Born This Way" (The Country Road Version).[25]
- ^ a b c The live EP contains "Poker Face", "Born This Way" and "You and I" from her special performance of Enigma at the Apollo Theater in collaboration with Sirius XM and Pandora.[34]
- ^ a b Gaga re-recorded "The Edge of Glory" and "You and I" with new vocals for her extended play, A Very Gaga Holiday (2011).[41]
- ^ a b Gaga performs one word in French.[42]
- ^ a b c Gaga re-recorded "Eh, Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say)", "Just Dance", and "Poker Face" with new vocals for her extended play, The Cherrytree Sessions (2009).[43]
- ^ Gaga performs a few lines in faux-Italian and one line in Spanish on "Government Hooker".[47]
- ^ Gaga performs one word in Italian.[48]
- ^ The duet of Elton John and Gaga for "Hello, Hello" was featured in the film Gnomeo & Juliet, but the soundtrack version only features John.[49]
- ^ Gaga performed few songs from Artpop (2013) at the iTunes Festival 2013, including "I Wanna Be with You", in which was later renamed to "Dope".[51]
- ^ Gaga recorded "I Want Your Love" in 2015 for Tom Ford's 2016 spring/summer campaign but it was not released as a single, for individual purchase or streaming, or as part of an album until an updated and extended version was officially released in 2018 on Chic's studio album It's About Time.[52]
- ^ Gaga recorded alternate vocals and lyrics for "Joanne (Where Do You Think You're Goin'?)" [Piano Version],[54] which won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Solo Performance in the 2019 edition.[55]
- ^ a b Gaga performs "La Vie en rose" in French.[56]
- ^ a b Gaga performed "La Vie en rose" and "The Lady Is a Tramp" live at the 2016 television special Tony Bennett Celebrates 90: The Best Is Yet to Come.[57]
- ^ Gaga performs "Scheiße" in both English and faux-German.[7]
- ^ Gaga, accompanied by a group of models, recorded a piano version of "Sine from Above" for Valentino's Voce Viva fragrance campaign.[65]
- ^ Blackpink performs "Sour Candy" in both English and Korean.[66]
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