Lady Gaga Announces Upcoming Album Title and Release Date

MTV.com reports that Lady Gaga announced on Zane Lowe's Beats 1 Radio show that her upcoming album will be named, 'LG5 and will be released on October 21 of this year! Joanne was the name of Gaga's paternal aunt, who died of lupus when she was 19. It's also her middle name. "I was named after her," she told Lowe.

"The day that the album comes out will be such a day of healing for me and my family," Gaga said. "I feel like [Joanne's] getting to live the rest of the life that she never got to."

Calling from the studio, Gaga also confirmed that the album would be done "in the next 48 hours," and that we'll get to see the album cover today.

She gave some details on a few album tracks as well. There's a song called "Joanne," which she called "the real, true heart and soul of the record." Josh Homme plays guitars on a track called "John Wayne," and Father John Misty appears on another called "Sinner's Prayer."

Lady Gaga is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. Her debut album The Fame (2008) was a critical and commercial success that produced global chart-topping singles such as "Just Dance" and "Poker Face". A follow-up extended play (EP), The Fame Monster (2009), was met with a similar reception and "Bad Romance", "Telephone", and "Alejandro" were released becoming successful singles. Her second full-length album Born This Way was released in 2011, topping the charts in more than 20 countries, including the United States, where it sold over one million copies in its first week. The album produced the number-one single "Born This Way". Her third album Artpop, released in 2013, topped the US charts and included the successful single "Applause". In 2014, Gaga released a collaborative jazz album with Tony Bennett titled Cheek to Cheek, which became her third consecutive number one in the United States. For her work in the television series American Horror Story: Hotel, Gaga won a Golden Globe Award in 2016.

With global album and single sales of 27 million and 146 million respectively, as of January 2016, she is one of the best-selling musicians of all time. Her achievements include twelve Guinness World Records, three Brit Awards, and six Grammy Awards. She is also the first artist to win the Songwriters Hall of Fame's Contemporary Icon Award.

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