Rema was born 18 years after Sunny Ade set the record with his popular and highly acclaimed album, “Juju Music”
By Kehinde Okeowo
Popular Afrobeats singer, Divine Ikubor, aka Rema, has broken a record set in the United States of America by legendary Juju maestro, Chief Sunday Adeniyi Adegeye, better known as King Sunny Ade.
The 41-year-old record was set by the veteran singer as the Nigerian artiste with the longest-running album in the US Billboard 200 chart’s history.
Sunny Ade set the impressive record with his highly acclaimed and popular album, “Juju Music” in 1982, about 18 years before Rema was born.
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The album, after finding its way to the top of the chart, spent 29 weeks on the Billboard 200 chart and remained the longest-running Nigerian project in the chart’s history.
However, it has now been overtaken after over 4 decades by Rema’s debut album “Rave & Roses” which reached the 30 weeks mark on the chart this week.
The Billboard 200 chart is a specialised rating system, which ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption.
