Lady Gaga will be the first artist to perform in space, according to claims that the singer will be blasting into the stratosphere on a Virgin Galactic spaceship in 2015.

According to reports by US Weekly magazine, the Artpop performer will take off in a Virgin Galactic ship and belt out one song in space, during the Zero G Colony high-tech musical festival in New Mexico. "She has to do a month of vocal training because of the atmosphere," reports the gossip magazine. The performance is scheduled to take place on the third day of the festival at dawn, approximately six months after the first Virgin Galactic commercial flight.

While there are no confirmed details of the performance as yet, the insider also added that Gaga would bring her "glam squad" along for the ride, and that she has "taken out a ridiculous life insurance policy". On Tuesday, the singer tweeted that she was "honored to be producing the event, 2 years in the making. On 11.11 ART MUSIC FASHION + TECHNOLOGY explode into flight #ARTPOP".

The classical singer Sarah Brightman is also preparing for a similar adventure, and is training with Russian cosmonauts for a 10-day journey to the International Space Station in October 2015, where she plans to record a song. The crossover star would become the world's eighth space tourist if she pips Gaga to the post, the first being US entrepreneur Dennis Tito in 2011.

While Gaga's performance is set to be the first of its kind, it's not the first time that a pop singer has attempted a space voyage. The 'N Sync member Lance Bass last year had his dreams of going into space scuppered, when the Russian Space Agency notified Nasa that he could not fly to the international space station because TV producers planning to make a documentary about the trip had failed to raise the $20m (£12.45m) fare.