Rema’s “Calm Down” remix featuring Selena Gomez becomes the first ever Nigerian song to chart at Top 10 in Billboard Hot 100’s history. The original song “Calm Down” was the second single from Rema’s debut studio album, Rave & Roses, which peaked at No. 2 on Billboard‘s World Albums chart. Selena Gomez hopped on the song and the remix was released on August 25, 2022, topping Global Excl. U.S. and U.S. Afrobeats Songs, where it has spent twenty-nine weeks at No. 1, marking the longest run at the top of the chart since Billboard and Afro Nation launched it in March 2022.

In response to this pleasant climb-up, Rema wrote in an Instagram post:

Trying to hold in the tears, I know how hard I worked to get my sound here, I’m grateful to God for how far I’ve come. Love to the ones who believed, love to the Queen @selenagomez.”