After a record 57 weeks, Nigerian Afrobeats star Rema’s song “Calm Down” has fallen off the Billboard Hot 100.
According to Chart Data on X “It made history, becoming the longest-charting and most successful African song of all time,” the music monitoring platform Chart Data said on X.
The previous record was 35-weeks by fellow Nigerian Afrobeats star Wizkid’s song “Essence.”
Calm Down entered the Billboard Hot 100 in September 2022 about seven months after its original release.
Calm Down’s massive global popularity grew with a version from Selena Gomez.
The track peaked at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 making it the highest-charting song on which an Afrobeats musician was the lead artist.
Last month “Calm Down” became the most streamed Afrobeats song on Spotify and the first African artist-led song to hit 1 billion streams.
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