New York, NY (Top40 Charts) The GRAMMY Award-nominated international superstar Anitta returns with a slick and sultry new single and music video entitled "Romeo" out now via Republic Records/ Universal Music Latin Entertainment. It marks her first release of 2025 and heralds the beginning of her next musical era.
The Spanish-language track revolves around a propulsive dancefloor-ready beat punctuated by a thick bassline. Anitta delivers flirty verses with charisma, building towards an instantly irresistible refrain. The momentum culminates with a promise, "Hoy tu vas hacer mio. Yo no dije maybe"—translation "Today you're going to be mine. I didn't say maybe." She upholds a tradition of larger-than-life cinematic visuals with the accompanying music video. In the clip, she effectively finds her "Romeo."
"Romeo" is Anitta's first new single this year and comes at an exciting time for the global superstar. Along with releasing new music, she recently announced her upcoming Netflix documentary, "Larissa: The Other Side of Anitta," which will give fans an inside look on her personal journey of self-discovery. And in April, she will return to the desert for Coachella.
Last year, Anitta reached another high watermark with her wildly successful Grammy nominated album, Funk Generation. Beyond amassing over half-a-billion streams, it earned widespread critical acclaim. Varietyapplauded how, "She went back to the youthful baile funk sound of the favelas — a vibrantly danceable combination of samba, Miami bass, hip-hop and syncopated African beats." Billboard raved, "No one does funk like Anitta," and Alternative Press put it best, "First, Anitta took over Brazil. Now, the world." Meanwhile, she delivered showstopping performances everywhere from the Latin American Music Awards to Coachella where she hit the stage with Peso Pluma. She also launched her biggest global headline run to date, THE BAILE FUNK EXPERIENCE TOUR, selling out shows on multiple continents and touring North America for the first time.
Since breaking through in Brazil, GRAMMY-nominated global superstar Anitta has become the leading artist of a new generation of Latin American music. Anitta's single, "Envolver" (2022), became the biggest solo debut by a Brazilian artist in the history of the Spotify Global Chart and broke Anitta's record by reaching #1 on iTunes in 19 countries. She released her album Versions of Me in April 2022 and went on to earn the highly coveted Best New Artist GRAMMY nomination for the 65th GRAMMY Awards (2023). The 15-track album was released in Spanish, English, and Portuguese and holds the record of biggest streaming week for a Brazilian artist on Spotify. It now has surpassed 1 billion streams on Spotify. Anitta is the first Brazilian artist with 35 million monthly listeners in Spotify history and the Brazilian female artist with the most charting songs in Hot 100 history. In 2022 she won a MTV Music Video Award® in the category of "Best Latin" for "Envolver," further making history and earning her second Guinness World Record as the "first Brazilian solo artist to win the MTV VMA for Best Latin (female)." The win followed an explosive performance by Anitta, who made her VMA broadcast performance debut with "Envolver." Starting in 2014, Anitta was named "Best Brazilian Act" at the MTV EuropeMusic Awards for five consecutive years. Last year, Anitta took home her second MTV Music Video Award® for "Best Latin." At the forefront of introducing Brazilian Funk to the world, in 2023 Anitta released Funk Generation: A Favela Love Story, featuring the single "Mil Veces," followed by the release of "BELLAKEO" with Peso Pluma, which is now her highest charting song on the Hot 100. Anitta closed out the year by releasing "Joga pra Lua", a single with the perfect mix of funk carioca with electronic music. Her most recent album Funk Generation, was released in April and garnered acclaim. She received multiple award nominations including a Grammy nomination for Best Latin Pop Album, two Latin Grammy Nominations for Record of the Year for "Mil Veces" and Best Portguese Language Urban Performance for "Joga Pra Lua (with Dennis & Pedro Sampaio)," and took home an MTV VMA for Best Latin video.
