After an impressive 57-week run, Rema‘s “Calm Down“, featuring American star, Selena Gomez has dropped off the Billboard Hot 100 global music chart.
This was confirmed in a post on X by music monitoring platform Chart Data which reads,
“REMA and Selena Gomez’s “Calm Down” departs the Hot 100 this week.
It made history, becoming the longest-charting and most successful African song of all time.”
Rema’s “Calm Down” has made history as the highest-charting Nigerian and African song of all time, surpassing Wizkid‘s “Essence“, featuring Tems and Justin Bieber, which held the record for 35 weeks.
The remix of “Calm Down”, featuring Selena Gomez, was released in August 2022 and made its debut on the Billboard Hot 100 in September 2022, reaching a peak position of number three. This marked Rema’s first top-ten hit and was Gomez’s ninth.
Notably, Rema’s song is the highest-charting track with an Afrobeats artist as the lead artist on the Billboard Hot 100, the most prestigious music ranking in the US.
Additionally, the song topped the Billboard US Afrobeats Songs and the Billboard Global Excl. US charts, and it reached number three on the Global 200 chart. It maintained its position as the leader of the U.S. Afrobeats Songs for a record-breaking 57 weeks.
Rema’s “Calm Down” has achieved several remarkable milestones, including entering the Guinness World Record as the First No.1 Hit on The Official MENA Chart and reaching number one on the Canadian Top Songs chart.
Billboard magazine described the song as a “melancholy slow jam with a subtle hypnotic draw“, and it has gained significant acclaim and a global stream since its release.
Indeed, “Calm Down” has won numerous awards and broken multiple records. It recently received the Best Afrobeats Song award at the MTV VMA Awards and became the most-streamed Afrobeats song on Spotify.
Remarkably, it is the first African artist-led song to reach one billion streams on the platform.
“Calm Down” also made history by spending a year on the Billboard Afrobeats chart, and its YouTube video has 673 million views, making it the most-watched music video by a Nigerian artist.
These achievements have elevated 23-year-old Rema to the ranks of prominent Afrobeats superstars like Wizkid, Davido, and Burna Boy in the international music scene.
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