Rema and Selena Gomez's “Calm Down” remix video reaches 1 billion YouTube views

Rema and Selena Gomez's remix video for the Afrobeats star's 2022 single “Calm Down” has surpassed one billion views on YouTube. The visual for the song, which originally appeared on Nigerian singer Rema's February 2022 debut studio album, Rave & Roseswas given a second life in August of that year when Gomez jumped into the visual for the sultry jam.

In the video, both singers hang out in a living room with green walls and colorful tapestries, with Gomez dancing seductively behind a beaded curtain and shaking her hips next to Rema as he sings, “I see that beautiful girl wearing her for my party.” Yellow/ With every other girl they do too much, but this girl is gentle/ Naim, I find the situation, I use “Hello”/ Tell me “Hello”/ Finally I find a way to talk to the girl, but she no, I want to follow.”

Midway through, Gomez sneaks up on Rema and adds, “Yeah, I know I look shy, but I'm coming down for you, woah/And my hips make you cry when I move around you/Do.” it once, do it twice/ I push you back, you hold me tight.” The two then join together in the chorus: “Baby, show me you can calm down, calm down/ Dance with me and take the lead now , lead now/Got you so high that you can't come down, come down” as The action turns into an all-white garage where the two pose on a vintage roadster.

Not only did the song cross the billion mark on YT, but it also set all sorts of records during its chart run, including the longest stay at the top of Billboard's US Afrobeats Songs chart and the first song in history to have a year on the charts (currently at 138 weeks) and the record for the first African song to spend a full year (57 weeks total) on the Billboard Hot 100. The song also holds the record for the most weeks ever spent on the Billboard Pop Airplay chart, an unprecedented 64 weeks as of January 20 of this year; “Calm Down” surpassed the previous record holder, “As It Was” by Harry Styles, which spent 63 weeks at the top in 2022-2023.

Check out the “Calm Down” remix video below.