REMA’S NEW ALBUM SETS RECORD FORBIGGEST OPENING WEEK ON SPOTIFY IN 2024.

Nigeria Global Artiste Rema’s sophomore album HEIS has become the project with the biggest opening week streams on Spotify Nigeria this year after it garnered 12.3 million streams.

REMA’S album surpasses the CEO of YBNL, OLAMIDE’S ‘IKIGAI’ which tallied 7.92 million streams on Spotify Nigeria in its opening week.

The album released on July 10, 2024, becomes the second album with the most opening week streams on Spotify Nigeria only behind DAVIDO’s record-breaking album TIMELESS which totaled 14.4 million streams.

Before breaking the record for the opening week streams on SPOTIFY Nigeria in 2024, HEIS broke the record for opening day streams while recording an impressive 1.99 million second-day streams.

While speaking at the LONDON listening party of his new album, REMA described it as an effort to take Afrobeats back to its roots.