Nigerian singer Divine Ikubor, popularly known as Rema, continues to make waves in the music industry as he breaks legendary musician King Sunny Ade’s 41-year-old record in the United States.
Rema’s achievement comes with his debut album “Rave & Roses,” which has now become the Nigerian album with the longest-running presence on the US Billboard 200 chart.
Recall that King Sunny Ade set the record with his critically-acclaimed album, “Juju Music” in 1982 – 18 years before Rema was born.
The album spent 29 weeks on the Billboard 200 chart and was the longest-running Nigerian project in the chart’s history until it was recently displaced by Rema’s debut album ‘Rave & Roses’ which spent a 30th week on the chart this week.
The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption.
