Rema’s ‘Calm Down’ Emerges Most Streamed African Song in US History

Nigerian singing sensation, Divine Ikubor, popularly known as Rema, has recorded yet another milestone in his music career as his hit song ‘Calm Down’ becomes the most streamed African song in the United States of America, USA, history.

‘Calm Down’ displaced CKay’s wave-making hit, ‘Love Nwantiti’ to achieve the feat.

American music data compilation website Chart Data disclosed this on Friday, July 21.

The statistics firm tweeted, “@heisrema’s ‘Calm Down’ is now the #1 most streamed Afrobeats song in US history, surpassing @ckay_yo’s ‘love nwantiti’.”

Both versions of the song have surpassed half a  billion streams on Spotify and YouTube.

Politics Nigeria recalls that ‘Calm Down’ became the highest-peaking Nigerian song on US Billboard Hot 100 following a remix with American superstar, Selena Gomez which peaked at number 3.

The song is also the first African song to top the American radio chart.