Rema carries out throughout 2024 Dreamville Music Festival at Dorothea Dix Park on April 7, 2024 in Raleigh,North Carolina Prince Williams/ FilmMagic
After racking up among the greatest Afrobeats crossover strikes in united state background with his Selena Gomez– helped “Calm Down,” Nigerian super star Rema is preparing to get in a brand-new age.
On Thursday (June 20), the Billboard Music Award victor released his very first music launch of the year– a brand-new cooperation with Shallipopi labelled “Benin Boys.”
Across hefty drums and mixing history strings, Rema and Shallipopi profession knowledgeables that bend their “big money” and worship their standing as 2 of the globe’s best young celebrities. The brand-new cooperation shows up together with a DK-helmed video that locates both celebrities dressed up in their best suit a collection of scenes, consisting of a neon-drenched cocktail lounge, a personal jet and in addition to what seems a church.
On Tuesday (June 18), Rema made a set of ASCAP London Music Awards: tune of the year and leading streaming tune, both for “Calm Down.” Last year, “Calm Down” gotten toNo 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and invested a record-setting 58 weeks atop united stateAfrobeats Songs The contagious Afrobeats track likewise got toNo 1 on the all-genre Radio Songs graph, making background for a tune by an African lead musician. “Calm Down” functioned as the 2nd solitary from Rave & & Roses,Rema’s launching workshop cd, which got toNo 81 on the Billboard 200 andNo 2 onWorld Albums
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Outside of a couple of solo tracks on the luxurious variation of Rave & & Roses, consisting of “Charm” and “Reason You,” Rema’s current launches have actually mostly been collective. Among those cooperations are tracks with Feid (“Bubalu”), Ice Spice (“Pretty Girl”) and, naturally, the “Soweto” remix (with Victony, Tempoe and Don Toliver), which got toNo 65 on the Hot 100. Fans last listened to Rema on his very own tracks through last October’s Ravage EP, that include the fan-favorite “DND.”
“Benin Boys” notes the very first authorities launch for Rema as a newly-minted Interscope Records musician with the tag’s UMG-assisted collaboration with Mavin Global.
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