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Escândalo Íntimo

2023 studio album by Luísa Sonza

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ121391704
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Escândalo Íntimo (Portuguese: [isˈkɐ̃dalu ˈĩtʃimu]; Intimate Scandal) is the third studio album by Brazilian singer Luísa Sonza. The album was released on August 29, 2023, through the record label Sony Music. The project was recorded in studios located in Brazil and the United States. The album features guest appearances by Marina Sena, Baco Exu do Blues, Duda Beat, Maiara & Maraisa, KayBlack and Demi Lovato.

Upon release, Escândalo Íntimo received generally positive reviews from music critics, who praised Sonza's maturity as an artist and the album's concept, depth and production, and gained 15.6 million streams in its first 24 hours of availability on Spotify, breaking the record for the biggest debut for an album in the history of Spotify Brazil, surpassing Super, by Jão. All of the album's tracks were positioned among the 50 most listened to songs on the platform, including six of them, "Penhasco2", "Campo de Morango", "A Dona Aranha", "Surreal", "Chico" and "Carnificina", present in the Top 10. Sonza was the most played artist in Brazil and 18th in the world. On Spotify, it was the biggest debut of a Brazilian album in Portugal, the Latin album with the third best debut, the first Brazilian album to reach more than 10 million streams in multiple days and the album to reach the highest number of streams in a week . It reached number one on Apple Music in Brazil, Portugal and Cape Verde.

A week after its release, "Chico" reached the top of all audio platforms in Brazil – being the first bossa nova to achieve this feat – and led Sonza to reach its highest entry in Spotify's Global Top 50, after the song reached 27th position.

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Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2023—that can be checked directly. The authority record carries competing date values—2023-08-29, 2024-05-28—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. The account is most persuasive where Escândalo, Íntimo and studio can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 2023 studio album by Luísa Sonza. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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This entry incorporates text from Escândalo Íntimo” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.