ARTPOP Songwriting Credits by Lady Gaga

ARTPOP is the third studio album by Lady Gaga, released in November 2013 on Interscope/Streamline Records and produced by DJ White Shadow, Zedd, and Gaga herself, conceived as a synergy between pop music and visual art, with a collaboration with Jeff Koons on the album's sculpture-based cover art and a stated intention to 'reverse the art reference' by making pop music the container for high art rather than art the legitimizing context for pop. Gaga wrote or co-wrote all her own material; the album's musical range, from the electropop of 'Applause' to the R&B of 'Do What U Want' (featuring R. Kelly), the disco of 'G.U.Y.,' and the orchestral 'Dope', is its most sonically diverse, though critics noted that the range came at the cost of the coherent identity that had defined the first three albums. 'Applause' debuted at number four on the Billboard Hot 100 and 'Do What U Want' reached the top ten; the album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 with 258,000 first-week sales, a significant decline from Born This Way's 1.1 million. ARTPOP was accompanied by an app intended to serve as an interactive companion to the music, which launched incompletely and was widely cited as a commercial and technological failure. Critical reception was polarized: some reviewers praised the album's ambition while others found the execution inconsistent, and it is generally considered the beginning of a transitional period in Gaga's career.