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Rema's Calm Down makes Afrobeats history in the US

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Rema has been catapulted to stardom with the success of Calm Down

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Rema鈥檚 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 鈥渢he first Afrobeats song in history to earn over one billion on-demand streams in the US鈥, .

Last year, Chart Data had already described the track as the 鈥渕ost successful African song of all time鈥.

Billboard magazine music analysts put its success down to its 鈥渕elancholy slow jam with a subtle hypnotic draw鈥.

鈥淸It鈥檚] the kind that gets stuck deep in the back of a listener鈥檚 mind, prompting them to return again and again.鈥

The song was released in February 2022 as a single off Rave and Roses, Rema鈥檚 debut album.

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.

It became the first African song to spend a year on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number three, making it the highest-charting song which an Afrobeats musician was the lead artist.

The remix, which has nearly 894 million views on YouTube, is currently the most watched music video by a Nigerian artist.

It has thrust Rema into the ranks of prominent Nigerian Afrobeats artists such as Burna Boy, Wizkid and Davido.

Rema says he has his own style of Afrobeats, which he has dubbed "Afrorave".

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