Afrobeats sensation, Divine Ikubor, a.k.a Rema has earn one billion streams with his song ‘Calm Down’ in the United States.
It is the first time an African song would achieving the feat in the US, according to American Music Stats Company, Chart Data.
“REMA’s “Calm Down” becomes the first Afrobeats song in history to earn over 1 billion on-demand streams in the US,” Chart Data tweeted.
In August last year, ‘Calm Down remix’ with Selena Gomez became the first African song to hit the billion mark in Spotify’s history.
The original version of ‘Calm Down’ was recognised by Guinness World Record as the first number one song on the world’s first regional streaming chart, MENA.
