Burna Boy’s ‘Last Last’ Or Rema’s ‘Calm Down’ — Which Is The Biggest Afrobeats Song Of 2022?

The Afrobeats song of the year debate is undoubtedly between ‘Last Last’ by Burna Boy and ‘Calm Down’ by Rema.

The year 2022 is definitely a memorable one for Afrobeats fans at home and abroad. A great number of hot singles and albums dropped.

Out of all the amazing songs that dropped, there are two songs that stand out the most in terms of global recognition, streams, and charts.

‘Last Last’ by Burna Boy ‘Calm Down’ by Rema are in competition for the biggest Afrobeats song this year. While ‘Calm Down’ became the fastest Afrobeats song in history to hit a record 300 million views in only 10 months on YouTube, ‘Last Last’ got a Grammy nomination, becoming the only nominated Nigerian song in the 2022 Grammys

On Friday evening, Mavin signee Crayon caused a stir on Twitter NG when he tweeted that his label mate’s Rema’s hit song ‘Calm Down’ is Afrobeats song of the year.

Make we no lie, make we No thief, Calm down by Divine/Rema is the biggest Afrobeat song this year! Home and abroad! Make we true! I mean look at the stats, the numbers! The cultural influences ! Calm down dey top charts for where them no dey speak English it’s insane 😭🤯🤯!!!!

— CRAYWAY! (@crayonthis) December 30, 2022

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What is the biggest Afrobeats song of 2022?

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