Anuel AA Plans a Real Hasta la Muerte Festival for 2027, With a New Country Every Year

Anuel AA is turning Real Hasta la Muerte from an album series into a festival. “I’m starting now with the Real Hasta la Muerte Festival,” he told Billboard’s Leila Cobo. It launches in summer 2027, he said, with Europe, probably Spain, as the likely first stop and a different country each year after that, per Billboard.

My festival [will feature] lots of artists. I’ll announce the date soon.

Anuel AA, to Billboard, Billboard

Nothing is locked yet. Anuel gave no date, city, venue or lineup, and said he’s “going back and forth between Chile or Spain right now.” Puerto Rico, Mexico and Colombia are also in the mix for later years. “Every year it’ll be in a different country,” he said.

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The festival news came in the middle of a bigger comeback. He told Cobo that Real Hasta la Muerte 2, the sequel to his 2018 debut and his first album since 2022’s LLNM2, is due Nov. 19, and that he could release a corridos album, Cartel Real Hasta la Muerte, the same day, per Billboard. Billboard first reported the two projects after his Latin Music Week session in Miami Beach on Oct. 20, and Complex followed up. He previewed songs there including “Los Veo,” made for the corridos album, and “Sexo No Más” with De La Rose.

The pivot to Mexican music is the surprise. Billboard’s Spanish-language report says Fuerza Regida’s Jesús Ortiz Paz is helping on several songs, and Anuel has said he fell for the genre “100%.”

I love corridos music, I fell in love with it 100%. I hardly ever listen to reggaeton or trap music, I’m all about corridos.

Anuel AA, at Billboard Latin Music Week (Oct. 20), Complex

Exploring the genre, he told Billboard, has made him “fall in love with music all over again — with something new, not the same old thing.” The interview also covers his decision to get sober and how he’s rethinking his life and music. Watch it below.

Corridos were already dominating the awards conversation that week, per Complex: see our report on Fuerza Regida’s stadium tour and Latin Music Week’s first day. RHLM 2 is due Nov. 19, the same date Billboard gives for Grand Theft Auto VI.