Nigerian singer, Divine Ikubor better known as Rema has become the first Nigerian artist to reach top 5 on billboard hot 100 with his song calm down featuring American singer, Selena Gomez.
The Benin born artist continuously charted on billboard charts since the release of the feature in August 2022.
Rema also made it to the Guinness world record with calm down on May 6 2023. The song became the first from a Nigerian singer to reach one US radio .
His debut album Raves and Roses surpassed one billion streams on Spotify making him the first Nigerian artist to reach this milestone.
This announcement was made by chartdata on their official Page, see it below
“Rema becomes the first Nigerian artist to reach the top 5 on the Hot 100 as a lead artist.”
Rema becomes the first Nigerian artist to reach the top 5 on the Hot 100 as a lead artist. pic.twitter.com/pgyvOsRMts
— chart data (@chartdata) May 8, 2023
Congratulations to Rema.