The world got really involved! The night of August 28, 2022 was marked by an unprecedented feat in the career of anita and also in the history of all Brazilian music: the carioca was the first Brazilian artist (all genres and sexes combined) to manage to win the astronaut trophy of the MTV VMA.
That same evening she also took the stage to sing her great global success “To imply“, Which topped Spotify’s list of most streamed songs in March 2022. Find out all the details now.
Anitta has involved the world
And she! After a huge Internet fan campaign for the singer to be the first Brazilian to win an MTV VMA award, anita was awarded Best Latin Song Video at the in person a event Prudential center in Newark, New Jersey. The singer received exactly 25,875,136 million votes and competed with big names in Latin music, these are:
- farruco – Peppers;
- bad bunny – Tweety asked me;
- J Balvin and Skrillex – A Da Getto;
- Karol G and Becky G – MAMIII;
- Dad Yankee – REMIX.
Although he was the first singer to win the best Latin video in MTV VMA 2022another Brazilian had been appointed before 2022. All Gabrielefrom the large group now unitedit even received a nomination in the category of the best group in 2020.
After receiving the award, the singer was very moved and reminded everyone that one of the songs she performed in her performance has long been criminalized. She pointed out that having the opportunity to change it and show Brazilian culture to the world is amazing. Watch the speech:
Before going on stage to collect her prize, the owner of the tube “To imply” also featured his big hit and a little funk medley, plus the infamous “Did you think I wouldn’t ride today?” In English. Check out the full performance, which is already the second most watched of the MTV to Youtube (behind only the performance of the K-pop group Blackpink):
The success of “Engaging”
Released in November 2021, it’s safe to say that even the label didn’t expect the song released entirely in Spanish to be a huge global hit.
In interviews after the success in countries around the world, he says he had to talk a lot with his management team to make the song available on all music platforms. The music video, which was directed and made by anitait already has more than 353 million views Youtube:
But that is not all. After a video went viral on the internet, in which the singer took her famous step during a concert at the Brazilthe song began to attract attention.
Soon, “To implystarted gaining engagement on the internet, and most interestingly: videos of people all over the world started posting. The challenge was only one: to imitate the carioca step performed in the clip and in live performances.
In March 2022 the Brazil moved to give the title the first solo Latin song to reach the top of Spotify Global. Already considered a hit in several parts of the world, the song garnered over 6.3 million streams in a single day.
International vehicles are already reporting that the singer of Honorius Gurgel can be strongly as one of the artists of the revelation of the Grammy Awards 2023, which allows you to nominate an artist who has not started his career the previous year, if he has been nominated. And we can’t deny it anita meets this requirement, doesn’t it?
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Source: Billboard