Rema also earned his second Billboard Hot 100 entry this week, with ‘Secondhand’—his collaboration with Don Toliver—debuting at number 29.
By Kehinde Okeowo
Nigerian Afrobeats singer, songwriter, and rapper Divine Ikubor, popularly known as Rema, has reached a milestone of 170 weeks on the Billboard World Albums Chart with his debut album, Rave & Roses—an achievement that makes it the longest-charting African album in the platform’s history.
With this feat, the 25-year-old artist broke the record previously held by Wizkid’s Made In Lagos (164 weeks) last year.
Other long-charting African projects on the chart include Tems’ Born In The Wild (79 weeks), Burna Boy’s Love, Damini (63 weeks), and the legendary Fela Kuti’s The Best Of The Black President (45 weeks).
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Meanwhile, Rema earned his second Billboard Hot 100 entry this week with ‘Secondhand’, a collaboration with Don Toliver that debuted at number 29.
His compatriot, Tems, also debuted her new song ‘What You Need’ on the Hot 100 this week. This brings her career total to seven entries—a joint record for an African act, shared with Burna Boy and the South African group Seether.
