in the summer of 2005, neyma released "arromba", her most popular album to date which sold more than 40,000 copies in mozambique alone and had an outstanding sale internationally. the album was well received in angola, cape verde, and portugal. the album features the self-titled single, arromba which is kizomba genre. another single off the album which was well received was lirrandzo, which turned out to be the most popular song the year, and arromba turned out to be the summer anthem of 2005.