Anitta & Shakira climbing

Anitta and Shakira put out “Choka Choka” on April 9, and within about a day the song was already showing up on Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube, and iTunes at the same time instead of building from just one platform first. Apple Music lists it as a 2026 single with a 2-minute runtime, and Spotify has it live as a joint release under both artists’ names. (music.apple.com) (open.spotify.com) That speed matters because this is not a surprise loosie sitting on its own. Billboard reported on April 6 that “Choka Choka” was the next single from Anitta’s album “EQUILIBRIVM,” which means the song arrived as part of an album campaign, not a one-off duet. (billboard.com) The pairing also closes a gap that had lasted for years. Billboard said this was Anitta and Shakira’s first-ever collaboration, so the release instantly combined two fan bases that already stretch across Brazil, Spanish-speaking Latin America, Europe, and the United States. (billboard.com) The timetable was tight on purpose. Brazilian outlet Gshow reported that Anitta announced the track on April 6, released it on digital platforms on April 9, and tied it directly to the April 16 arrival of “EQUILIBRIVM,” turning the single into a seven-day runway for the album. (gshow.globo.com) By April 10, chart tracker Kworb was already showing “Choka Choka” at No. 1 on iTunes in Brazil and Portugal, No. 2 in Colombia, Ecuador, and Lebanon, No. 3 in Mexico and Spain, and inside the United States iTunes chart at No. 84. That pattern is not one country carrying the song by itself; it is multiple markets pushing at once. (kworb.net) The same Kworb snapshot showed a different shape on Apple Music, where songs usually move more slowly because they depend on repeat listening rather than a burst of purchases. Instead of one giant Apple Music peak, the early traction was scattered across territories, which fits a rollout built on fan mobilization and immediate click-through from both artists’ audiences. (kworb.net) YouTube moved fast too. The official lyric video uploaded by Anitta on April 9 had roughly 687,000 views after one day, giving the song a visual lane even before a full music video had time to build. (youtube.com) Entertainment Tonight folded the song into its April 10 “New Music Friday” roundup, which put “Choka Choka” into the same weekly release cycle that drives playlisting and press coverage in the United States. That matters because songs released near the top of the Friday cycle get a full weekend to collect streams before the next wave of drops arrives. (etonline.com) So the story is not just that “Choka Choka” appeared on a few charts. In its first 24 to 48 hours, the song had a fixed album date behind it, a first-time superstar pairing, live placements on every major platform, and purchase-chart spikes spread across Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, and North America. (billboard.com) (gshow.globo.com) (kworb.net)