Divine Ikubor aka Rema continues to make Nigeria and Africa proud by winning the award for Best Afrobeats, a new category, for his globally accepted remixed single “Calm Down” featuring Selena Gomez at MTV Video Music Awards.<\/p>\n
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Burna Boy, Davido, Wizkid, Fire Boy, Ayra Starr, and Labianca are among the candidates from other Afrobeats heavyweights. Rema was declared the category winner.<\/p>\n
The \u201cCalm Down\u201d song has surpassed a billion streams on Spotify becoming the first Nigerian song ever to attain this feat by Victor Okpala, Spotify\u2019s Artiste and Label Partnerships Manager for West Africa.<\/p>\n
With confidence and humility, Rema gives shout-out to the pioneer of Afrobeat Fela, Tubaba Don jazzy, Dbanj, D\u2019Prince, Runtown, Timaya,Tuface, Wizkid, Burna Boy, Davido and also recognizes the tremendous dispensation of the new generation of Afrobeats.<\/p>\n
Rema and Selena Gomez\u2019s collaboration \u2018Calm Down\u2019 has made history by winning the prestigious Best Afrobeats award at the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs).<\/p>\n
The Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey were the event was held was filled with top stars with the likes of Taylor swift, celebrating the exceptional musical talents that have graced the global stage.<\/p>\n
\u2018Calm Down\u2019 earned three nominations in the different categories which are Best Collaboration, Song of the Year, and Best Afrobeats.<\/p>\n
However, it was in the Best Afrobeats category that this remarkable duo left an indelible mark, making history as the inaugural winners in this newly established category.<\/p>\n
Rema\u2019s \u2018Calm Down,\u2019 was nominated alongside Burna Boy\u2019s \u2018It\u2019s Plenty,\u2019 Davido feat Musa Key\u2019s \u2018Unavailable,\u2019 Ayra Starr\u2019s \u2018Rush,\u2019 Libianca\u2019s \u2018People,\u2019 Wizkid feat Ayrra Starr\u2019s \u20182 Sugar,\u2019 and Fireboy DML\u2019s \u2018Bandana.<\/p>\n
The track \u2018Calm Down,\u2019 which was originally released on August 25, 2022, garnered attention for its unique fusion of Afrobeats and pop elements.<\/p>\n
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Exploits of REMA\u2019s Calm Down on music charts<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n The remix of the song achieved incredible success, becoming the first-ever track to maintain a position on the Billboard US Afrobeats Songs chart for an entire year.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Additionally, it secured the coveted spot of being the First No.1 Hit on The Official MENA Chart.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Divine Ikubor aka Rema continues to make Nigeria and Africa proud by winning the award for Best Afrobeats, a new category, for his globally accepted remixed single “Calm Down” featuring Selena Gomez at MTV Video Music Awards. Burna Boy, Davido, Wizkid, Fire Boy, Ayra Starr, and Labianca are among the candidates from other Afrobeats […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-1932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1934,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932\/revisions\/1934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}