Calm Down (Rema song)

"Calm Down"
Single by Rema
from the album Rave & Roses
Released11 February 2022 (2022-02-11)
GenreAfrobeats[1]
Length
  • 3:40
  • 3:59 (remix)
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Rema singles chronology
"Soundgasm"
(2021) 		"Calm Down"
(2022) 		"FYN"
(2022)
Selena Gomez singles chronology
"Let Somebody Go"
(2022) 		"Calm Down (Remix)"
(2022) 		"My Mind & Me"
(2022)
Music videos
"Calm Down" on YouTube

"Calm Down" (Remix) on YouTube

"Calm Down" is a song by Nigerian singer Rema, from his debut studio album Rave & Roses (2022). It was released on 11 February 2022 through Jonzing World and Mavin as the album's second single. The song charted across Europe, reaching number one on the Belgian Ultratop 50, Dutch Top 40 and Dutch Single Top 100. In the United Kingdom, "Calm Down" peaked at number three on the UK Singles Chart and spent 27 non-consecutive weeks in the top ten of the chart.

A remix of "Calm Down" with American singer Selena Gomez was released on 25 August 2022. The new version reached number one on both the Billboard US Afrobeats Songs and the Billboard Global Excl. US charts, and peaked at number three on the Global 200 chart. It peaked at number three on the US Billboard Hot 100, marking Rema's first top-ten hit and Gomez's ninth. It also led the U.S. Afrobeats Songs for a record-setting 58 weeks. In the US, it topped the all-genre Radio Songs chart for ten weeks, becoming both artists' first number-one song on the chart. It reached number one on the Canadian Hot 100 chart dated 13 May 2023. According to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), the remix was the second best-selling global single of 2023, earning 1.89 billion subscription streams equivalents globally. The song is widely regarded as the biggest and most successful Afrobeats song of all time.[2][3][4][5][6] A music video for the remix was released on Selena's YouTube channel on September 7, 2022 and hit the 1 billion views mark on November 8, 2024, becoming Rema's first and Selena's third song to hit the milestone.[7]

  1. ^ "Best Songs of 2022". The New York Times. 9 December 2022. Retrieved 23 December 2022.
  2. ^ "Spotify reveals the Top 10 Afrobeats songs of all time". NotjustOk. 22 June 2023. Archived from the original on 28 November 2023. Retrieved 24 October 2023.
  3. ^ "How Did Rema & Selena Gomez's 'Calm Down' Become Afrobeats' Biggest Crossover Hit Yet?". Billboard. 13 June 2023. Archived from the original on 7 December 2023. Retrieved 24 October 2023.
  4. ^ Awosoji, Ifeoluwa (7 May 2023). "Rema enters Guinness Book of Record with 'Calm Down'". Punch Newspapers. Archived from the original on 29 October 2023. Retrieved 24 October 2023.
  5. ^ Rania Aniftos; Katie Atkinson; Eric Renner Brown; et al. (7 December 2023). "The 100 Best Songs of 2023: Staff Picks". Billboard. Retrieved 8 December 2023.
  6. ^ "Rema's 'Calm Down' Shatters Records: One Year On US Billboard!". guardian.ng. 29 August 2023. Retrieved 8 December 2023.
  7. ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcIcVapfqXw


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