Divine Ikubor, nicknamed Rema, a popular Nigerian singer,’s hit song ‘Calm Down’ has become the first African song to reach 1 billion on-demand views in the United States.
According to the American Music Stats Company’s Chart Data, ‘Calm Down’ has received over 1 billion on-demand streams in the United States.
“REMA’s ‘Calm Down’ becomes the first Afrobeats song in history to earn over 1 billion on-demand streams in the US,” tweeted Chart Data.
In August of last year, ‘Calm Down remix’ featuring Selena Gomez became the first African song to reach the billion mark on Spotify. Guinness World Records certified the original version of ‘Calm Down’ as the first number-one song on the world’s first regional streaming chart, MENA.