Mayhem won Best Pop Vocal Album at the 2026 Grammys. The album is Lady Gaga’s seventh studio album, and the award recognized Gaga as its primary artist.
Mayhem was released in March 2025 and marked a return to Gaga’s dance-pop and electropop sound. The album includes “Abracadabra,” a high-energy single that also earned major attention during the 2026 Grammy cycle. Its title deliberately evokes the dramatic, theatrical side of Gaga’s earlier pop work.
Best Pop Vocal Album honors an album’s overall artistic achievement in the pop vocal field, rather than a single track. That is why individual songs from competing albums, such as Sabrina Carpenter’s Man’s Best Friend or Justin Bieber’s Swag, could not win this particular album category.
The category has a long history of recognizing major pop albums. It began as Best Contemporary Album at the 10th Grammy Awards in 1968, was later discontinued, and returned in the 1990s under its modern family of names.