UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Five-time Grammy award winner Lady Gaga and Live Nation Global Touring announced a March 2 date at the Bryce Jordan Center as part of the North American leg of her The Born This Way Ball World Tour. Following overwhelming ticket sales and sold-out shows throughout Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Asia, The Born This Way Ball will continue in 2013, visiting 25 cities in North America including performances in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Toronto. In this brand new tour, Gaga performs her latest album, "Born This Way," as well as music from both "The Fame" and "The Fame Monster." The Born This Way Ball began in Seoul earlier this year.
Tickets for the Bryce Jordan Center show go on sale at 10 a.m. Nov. 30 at the Bryce Jordan Center, Eisenhower Auditorium, Penn State Downtown Theatre, Altoona Campus ticket outlet, online at www.bjc.psu.edu and ticketmaster.com, or by calling 814-865-5555 and 800-359-5175.
Pollstar’s 2012 mid-year report ranked The Born This Way Ball as the top-grossing tour by any female artist worldwide this year.
The Born This Way Ball is Lady Gaga’s first tour since the release of her album "Born This Way, which has sold nearly 6 million copies worldwide since its release in May 2011. The album is the follow up to back-to-back Grammy award-winning albums: 2009’s "The Fame Monster" and 2008’s "The Fame." Combined, "The Fame" and "The Fame Monster" have sold 15 million albums worldwide, while Lady Gaga’s hit singles have combined sales of more than 90 million worldwide.
Gaga was named Forbes Most Powerful Woman in the World 2011 and was included in Time‘s annual The 2010 Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world. With more than 2.2 billion combined views of all her videos online, Lady Gaga is one of the biggest living people on Facebook with more than 53 million likes and is No.1 on Twitter with nearly 30 million followers. She has also recently launched her own social network just for fans, LittleMonsters.com. Lady Gaga is the only artist in the digital era to top the 5 million sales mark with her first two hits.
Fans will have first access to ticket pre-sales via LittleMonsters.com on Nov. 26. To receive an access code for this exclusive pre-sale, sign up for free at LittleMonsters.com and RSVP to the concert that you wish to attend.