Kansas City, MO (Sept. 18, 2012) Today, 5-time Grammy Award winner LADY GAGA has revealed complete details for the North American lef of her The Born Thiw 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 Kansas City on Feb. 4. 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.

Pollstar's 2012 Mid Year report ranks the Born This Way Ball as the top grossing tour by any female artist worldwide this year and is Gaga's first tour since the release of her album Born This Way which has sold nearly 6 million copies worldwide since it's 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 over 90 million worldwide.

Gaga was named Forbes' Most Powerful Woman in the World in 2011 and was included in Time's annual "The 2010 Time 100" list of the most influential people in the world. With over 2.2 billion combined views of all her videos online, Lady Gaga is one of the biggest living people on Facebook with over 53 million 'likes' and is #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.