Rema’s ‘Calm Down’ which holds multiple records including the most streamed Afrobeats song on Spotify with its record-breaking 1 billion streams, which also holds the record for the most viewed Nigerian music video on YouTube has extended its own record and has now sold 6,000,000 units in the US.
This particular feat on solidify it’s continuation of its status as the most commercially successful African song in the United States, ‘Calm Down’ with Selena Gomez which has now sold 6,000,000 units thus earning it an RIAA 6-time platinum plaque.
‘Calm Down’ has continued to enjoy huge commercial success in the US where it spent over 52 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100. It’s NO. 3 peak on the chart also became the highest peak for a Nigerian song and the second for an African song just behind Hugh Masekala’s 1968 record ‘Grazing in The Grass.’