Rema’s ‘Raves & Roses’ Lands RIAA Gold Certification

Rema’s breakthrough album “Raves & Roses,” which has seen enormous commercial success, has achieved a historic milestone by becoming the first Afrobeats album to be certified gold by the RIAA.

Released in 2022, “Raves & Roses” joins Wizkid’s Grammy-nominated album “Made in Lagos” as the only Afrobeats album with RIAA certification, and it also becomes the first debut album by an African artist to receive a gold certificatio

The album saw tremendous commercial success in the US, where it peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and remained on the chart for more than 52 weeks, thanks to the enormous commercial success of the hit single “Calm Down,” which featured Selena Gomez.

In addition, the song spent more than 52 weeks at the top of Billboard’s Afrobeats Chart, which is indicative of its enormous success there. It has been certified double platinum there, making it the most popular Afrobeats crossover single to dat

In addition to Wizkid, Davido, Burna Boy, and Asake as the only African artists to sell out the busiest music venue in the world, the young singer also sold out the 20,000-seat 02 Arena on Tuesday of last year.

Rema was accused of satanism on social media by some of his show-goers, who claimed that he used symbols from the Illuminati.But the superstar from Edo responded via his X (previously Twitter) handle, revealing that the mask he wore was a clone of the well-known Queen Idia mask and the fake horse he rode on stage was a reenactment of a Benin artefact.

It was reported that the fake bat he rode on stage during his second performance was a tribute to the bats that populate the Edo night sk

Rema posted a video of his contentious concert and captioned it, saying, “RAVAGE UPRISING/ My Ancestors bronzes sit in the museum of this very city, so I remade mine.” So, Edo is reinterpreted, the map is altered, and your thoughts are disregarded. inds away.