Popular Nigerian singer Divine Ikubor, known as Rema, has made history with his hit song ‘Calm Down’ becoming the first African song to earn 1 billion on-demand streams in the United States.
This milestone was confirmed by Chart Data, an American music statistics company, which tweeted, “REMA’s ‘Calm Down’ becomes the first Afrobeats song in history to earn over 1 billion on-demand streams in the US.”
In August of the previous year, the remix of ‘Calm Down’ featuring Selena Gomez also made waves as the first African song to surpass 1 billion streams on Spotify.
Additionally, the original version of ‘Calm Down’ holds a Guinness World Record for being the first number-one song on the world’s first regional streaming chart, MENA (Middle East and North Africa).