On September 12, 2023, the 23-year-old ravestar, Rema, emerged as the first African musician to hit a billion streams on Spotify with the Calm Down remix featuring Selena Gomez.
His success isn’t by chance, streaming farm or just big budgets. Rema put in the work to get his billion streams. We dived into his records to find out how he made history with the Selena Gomez-assisted remix, and summarised our research into these seven steps.
As long as you’re ready to…
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