Rema And Selena Gomez’s ‘Calm Down’ Breaks Record on US Billboard Chart

“Calm Down” a hit song by Nigerian singer, Rema and American musician, Selena Gomez, has become the first song in history to spend a year on the US Billboard Chart.

The song has spent 52 weeks as number one on the Billboard US Afrobeats Songs chart. It plateaued at number three on the main chart, Billboard Hot 100, and reached number one on the Canadian Top Songs chart as well. This according to Chart Data, on American data collection company on Monday August 28, 2023.

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In an X formally known as Twitter post sighted by Ameyaw Debrah Media, the data collection firm wrote, ”@heisrema and @selenagomez’s “Calm Down” becomes the first song in history to spend an entire year at #1 on the Billboard US Afrobeats Songs chart (52 weeks).”

.@heisrema and @selenagomez's "Calm Down" becomes the first song in history to spend an entire year at #1 on the Billboard US Afrobeats Songs chart (52 weeks). pic.twitter.com/N4rFWC5mjJ

— chart data (@chartdata) August 28, 2023

It will be recalled that the song entered into the Guinness World Record as the First No.1 Hit on The Official MENA Chart (the world’s first regional streaming chart) and further debuted at No. 1 when the MENA Chart was launched by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) on November 29, 2022