{"id":174837,"date":"2024-06-19T13:23:12","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T11:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-remas-calm-down-ranked-as-the-most-streamed-afrobeats-song-in-the-u-s\/"},"modified":"2024-06-19T13:23:12","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T11:23:12","slug":"ghana-remas-calm-down-ranked-as-the-most-streamed-afrobeats-song-in-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-remas-calm-down-ranked-as-the-most-streamed-afrobeats-song-in-the-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Rema&#8217;s &#8216;Calm Down&#8217; Ranked As the Most Streamed Afrobeats Song in the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\"><em>&#8220;Calm Down&#8221; was initially released as a precursor to Rema&#8217;s debut album &#8220;Rave and Roses&#8221; in 2022. The single claimed the top spot on various charts, including Belgium&#8217;s Ultratop 50, the Netherlands&#8217; Top 40, and Single Top 100<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Nigerian Afrobeat singer Rema has achieved another remarkable milestone in his career, as his popular hit song &#8220;Calm Down&#8221; has been ranked as the most streamed Afrobeat song in the US, surpassing one billion streams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The music statistics page, Chart Data, announced the feat&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202406190313.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Calm Down&#8221; was initially released as a precursor to Rema&#8217;s debut album &#8220;Rave and Roses&#8221; in 2022. The single claimed the top spot on various charts, including Belgium&#8217;s Ultratop 50, the Netherlands&#8217; Top 40, and Single Top 100 Nigerian Afrobeat singer Rema has achieved another remarkable milestone in his career, as his popular hit song [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":174838,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,17319,9553,4508,4509,257,16232,44968,4333,254,36697,2282],"class_list":["post-174837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-afrobeats","tag-calm","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-news","tag-ranked","tag-remas","tag-song","tag-south-africa-today","tag-streamed","tag-u-s"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}