Rema

CTL-E-5765 · Person · musician · 2000–present

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Combined Graph record U-01231 · provenance: canonical master store (CSV), record CTL-P-0212 + build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-5765. Master record source: CTL seed 2026-10-16 — UNVERIFIED, verify before public citation.

Rema, born 1 May 2000 in Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria, is a Nigerian singer whose full name is carried as Divine Ikubor — a middle name appears in some sources as Joshua and in others as Justice, unresolved. Discovered through online freestyles, he signed in 2019 to D'Prince's Jonzing World, under Mavin Records, and broke through with the single "Dumebi." His debut album Rave & Roses (2022) reached No. 81 on the Billboard 200. "Calm Down" (2022) and its Selena Gomez remix became his global signature: the remix peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and in September 2023 the song became the first African artist-led song to reach one billion Spotify streams. His second album Heis (2024) earned his first Grammy nomination, Best Global Music Album at the 67th Grammy Awards.

The record

• Also known as: Divine Ikubor
• Role(s): musician

Notes

Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Census Intake Wave 1 — 747 Program, Wave 7; first packet at the founder's 40-record size). Gate A (2026-10-16): no Rema entity in the live graph at 3,443 entities (exact / normalized / alias + token containment); ID CTL-E-5765 free. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 3 — Famous Birthdays ABSENT census, readiness rank 465 (World Music Singers list). The census supplied the NAME ONLY; no fact in this record is sourced to it (CTL-GOV-004). SCOPE GATE: PASS — Nigerian recording figure — diaspora scope. Vital status: LIVING — announced the 23-date HEIS World Tour on 10 February 2025, including his Coachella debut. CONFLICTS CARRIED: Full name: "Divine Joshua Ikubor" in the current reference record, "Divine Justice Ikubor" in one biography tradition, plain "Divine Ikubor" in many. Carried as Divine Ikubor with the middle name unresolved. STATISTICS (sourced, dated): "Calm Down" remix peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100, spent a record 58 weeks at No. 1 on Billboard's US Afrobeats Songs chart and 57 weeks on the Hot 100; first African artist-led song to one billion Spotify streams (September 2023) — BBC/Wikipedia, accessed 2026-10-16. MEDIA: photo HELD (candidate: Wikimedia Commons and label/press photography of this subject exists; no file page was read at file-page level in this pass, so no image is cleared — CTL-PHOTO-001; a CTL-created graphic is the standing alternative); chart FILLED (charts/chart-ctl-e-5765-rema.svg); video HELD (the Shorts Link Map catalog was checked by name and variants — no matching-entity CTL Short exists for this subject; the three catalog string-hits for "Ne-Yo" resolve to Nina Simone and John Coltrane rows, not Ne-Yo billings); audio HELD (no CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio; the subject's recordings are third-party copyrighted material). MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = N/A (Person records carry no map slot under the media-layer rule; maps attach to places and institutions.) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created SVG (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record's sourced facts) | video = HELD (No matching-entity CTL Short in the Shorts Link Map catalog (checked by name and variants), and no official/em) | audio = HELD (No CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio at staging; the subject's own recordings are third-party )

Referenced by

• Rave & Roses — authored by → this record

Sources

• Wikipedia, "Rema (musician)" — born 1 May 2000, Benin City; name as currently listed (Divine Joshua Ikubor — middle name contested); chart records; Grammy nomination — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rema_(musician) (build store)
• BBC News report (syndicated) — "Calm Down" remix Hot 100 No. 3; first African artist-led song to one billion Spotify streams (September 2023); "Afrorave" — https://www.businessghana.com/site/news/Entertainment/308850/Rema-s-Calm-Down-makes-Afrobeats-history-in-the-US (primary source · build store)
• https://notjustok.com/article/rema-and-selena-gomez/amp/ (verification source · master store)

Evidence note (master store)

Divine Ikubor, known as Rema, released 'Calm Down' in March 2022 on his debut album Rave & Roses; the Selena Gomez remix became a worldwide sensation and peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 (per NotJustOk, reporting Billboard chart data).

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