Rema & Selena Gomez Make History As ‘Calm Down’ Becomes First African Song to Hit 1 Billion Streams on Spotify

Nigerian singer, Divine Ikubor better known as Rema hits another milestone with his hit single, Calm Down featuring Selena Gomez as it surpasses 1 billion streams on Spotify.

Checks by The Eagle affirms that the singer’s song officially reached the nine-zero mark on the streaming service, building on its prior success as the most streamed Afrobeats song of all time on Spotify.

The success of Calm Down not only marks Gomez’s first No. 1 on the Radio Songs chart but also Rema’s first chart-topping track. While Rema has only one notable chart win to his credit, Gomez has come close to conquering this tally before, with her song Same Old Love peaking at No. 3 eight years ago. Calm Down by Rema & Selena Gomez has surpassed 1 BILLION streams on Spotify. 

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It becomes Rema’s 1st and Selena’s 6th song to achieve this making it the First and only African song to achieve this.

Check out some relations to this feat below:

@Nbagg5 “If not rema selena would not have known a billion for the next 10yrs BcoS her last billion was a long time and her career is on a long thing So thanks to rema”

@ravishingjenni Selenas Impact . She’s so generous to have featured on this song the rest became history Without her this song wouldn’t be this huge