8 Songs You Didn’t Know Lady Gaga Wrote

No one doubts that Lady Gaga is a top-notch songwriter. With six No. 1 Billboard Hot 100 hits that she wrote to her name – 2008’s “Just Dance” featuring Colby O’Donis and 2009’s “Poker Face” (both from her debut album The Fame); 2011’s “Born This Way,” the title track of her sophomore full-length; 2018’s “Shallow” off of the original soundtrack for A Star Is Born; “Rain on Me,” her 2020 duet with Ariana Grande from Chromatica; and “Die with a Smile,” her 2024 collab with Bruno Mars, later released on Mayhem.

Gaga is not just topping charts with the powers of her pen. She’s achieved countless accolades and nominations over her career, including four Grammy nods for song of the year – an award that specifically honors the writers – for “Poker Face,” “Shallow” “Die With a Smile” and 2025’s “Abracadabra” from Mayhem. “Shallow” won the Academy Award for best original song in 2019 (shared with Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando and Andrew Wyatt), and Gaga earned two more Oscar nods in the same category for 2015’s “Till It Happens to You,” cowritten with Diane Warren for the 2015 documentary The Hunting Ground and 2023s “Hold My Hand” from Top Gun: Maverick.

But she doesn’t just do it for herself. And while Gaga’s focus seems to be mostly on pushing her own creative concepts these days — not to mention acting, art, fashion and other pursuits — her career accomplishments are stacked with impressive behind-the-scenes work for artists ranging from Britney Spears to Michael Bolton, Jennifer Lopez and more. Here are eight songs you may not have known Gaga was behind.