African Album "Rave & Roses" by Rema Surpasses 3 Billion Streams on Spotify, Making It the First from the Continent to Achieve This Feat
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Rema's album "Rave & Roses (Ultra)" has become the highest streaming African album on Spotify, surpassing the 3 billion mark and making history as the first African project to achieve this milestone.
The album's success is largely due to the massive global success of the track "Calm Down (Remix)" featuring Selena Gomez. This song alone accounts for over 2 billion streams on Spotify, making it the first African song to exceed 1 billion Spotify streams. "Calm Down" dominated charts internationally, topping the charts in the US, UK, India, and across Latin America.
The collaboration with Selena Gomez and the song's international chart success helped launch Afrobeats further into the global mainstream, establishing Rema as a leading global ambassador for the genre.
Beyond "Calm Down," the entire 20-track album contributes to its record-breaking streaming numbers, showing broad audience engagement rather than just one viral hit. The album, a genre-blending project that folds Afrobeats into pop, trap, and R&B, has been released under Mavin Records and Jonzing World.
Released originally in 2022 and expanded in the "Ultra" version, the album has steadily grown in streams over three years, reflecting sustained global interest in Afrobeats music.
While other African artists and songs, such as Wizkid, Burna Boy, Davido, and South African artists in the Amapiano genre, have high streaming figures and international impact, Rema's "Rave & Roses" stands out for being the first African album to hit the 3 billion streams mark.
Thus, Rema’s "Rave & Roses" is exceptional because of its unprecedented Spotify streaming milestone, the massive crossover hit it contains, and its role in pushing Afrobeats onto the global stage more than any other African album so far.
The record-breaking moment was confirmed by multiple global music tracking platforms, and it marks a significant shift in the African streaming era, rewriting the rules of global pop culture.
The unprecedented success of Rema's "Rave & Roses (Ultra)" has established it as a pivotal moment in the global streaming era, as this album is now the highest streaming African project on Spotify, with over 3 billion streams. This achievement, coupled with the worldwide chart domination of the song "Calm Down (Remix)" featuring Selena Gomez, cemented Rema as a global ambassador for Afrobeats in the realm of entertainment and pop-culture.
