Rema's Calm Down makes Afrobeats history with one billion US streams – BBC

An individual sings into a microphone on stage, wearing a dark vest, in-ear monitors, and a bracelet. As the BBC News logo glows in the bottom left corner, they captivate the audience with an Afrobeats vibe reminiscent of Rema's "Calm Down.

Rema’s Calm Down cannot stop making music history – the latest accolade for the hit by the 24-year-old Nigerian star is that it now the most-streamed Afrobeats song in the US.

It has become “the first Afrobeats song in history to earn over one billion on-demand streams in the US”, the music monitoring platform Chart Data has said on X.

Last year, Chart Data had already described the track as the “most successful African song of all time”.

Billboard magazine music analysts put its success down to its “melancholy slow jam with a…