Camila marks Familia anniversary

Camila Cabello just turned a catalog date into a live fan event again: her third album, *Familia*, was released on April 8, 2022, which made April 8, 2026 its four-year anniversary, and her anniversary post on X set off a fresh round of clips, memories, and reposts from fans. (x.com) (spotify.com) *Familia* was the follow-up to *Romance* from 2019, and Apple Music’s album note says Cabello pushed this record closer to her Cuban American roots, with songs that leaned harder into Latin pop than the album before it. (apple.com) (wikipedia.org) The album arrived with 12 tracks, including “Don’t Go Yet,” “Bam Bam” with Ed Sheeran, “psychofreak” with Willow, and “Hasta Los Dientes” with María Becerra, so fans celebrating it now are also revisiting the era’s biggest collaborations in one package. (spotify.com) (officialcharts.com) (metacritic.com) “Don’t Go Yet” actually started the *Familia* rollout on July 23, 2021, more than eight months before the full album, and “Bam Bam” followed on March 4, 2022, which is why the anniversary is pulling in memories from a long promo stretch instead of one release-day moment. (wikipedia.org) (camilacabello.fandom.com) When the album landed, Cabello also staged a virtual TikTok concert called *Familia: Welcome to the Family* on April 7, 2022, one day before release, which helped make the era feel less like a standard album drop and more like a themed event fans could step back into years later. (wikipedia.org) The record held up well with critics too: Metacritic lists *Familia* with a 76 score from nine critic reviews, and its summary notes guest appearances from María Becerra, Ed Sheeran, Willow, and Yotuel. (metacritic.com 1) (metacritic.com 2) Commercially, *Familia* reached the top 10 in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Spain, so this is not fans reviving a forgotten side project; it was one of Cabello’s major chart albums of the early 2020s. (wikipedia.org) (officialcharts.com) The anniversary also lands after Cabello’s next album cycle has already come and gone, with her official site now centered on *C,XOXO*, which makes *Familia* feel like a distinct earlier chapter rather than her current campaign. (camilacabello.com) That is why one short anniversary post traveled so fast this week: April 8 is a clean four-year marker, *Familia* has recognizable singles like “Bam Bam” and “Don’t Go Yet,” and the album still sits in streaming services as a 12-song snapshot of the 2021 to 2022 Camila Cabello era. (x.com) (spotify.com)