‘Calm Down’ displaced CKay’s ‘Love Nwantiti’ to achieve the feat.
American music data compilation website, Chart Data disclosed this on Friday.
The statistics firm tweeted, “@heisrema’s ‘Calm Down’ is now the #1 most streamed Afrobeats song in US history, surpassing @ckay_yo’s ‘love nwantiti’.”
Both versions of the song have surpassed half a billion streams on Spotify and YouTube.
Tooxclusive recalls that ‘Calm Down’ became the highest-peaking Nigerian song on US Billboard Hot 100 following a remix with American superstar, Selena Gomez which peaked at number 3.
The song is also the first African song to top the American radio chart.
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