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Rema’s Calm Down cannot stop making music history – the latest accolade for the hit by the 24-year-old Nigerian star is that it now the most streamed Afrobeats song in the US.
It has become “the first Afrobeats song in history to earn over one billion on-demand streams in the US”, the music monitoring platform Chart Data has said on X. Last year, Chart Data had already described the track as the “most successful African song of all time”.
Billboard magazine music analysts put its success down to its “melancholy slow jam with a subtle hypnotic draw”. “[It’s] the kind that gets stuck deep in the back of a listener’s mind, prompting them to return again and again.”
The song was released in February 2022 as a single off Rave and Roses, Rema’s debut album, reports the BBC. Rema, whose real name is Divine Ikubor, partnered with the US singer Selena Gomez a few months later for a remix of the song, which hit the billion-plays mark on the streaming app Spotify
