Breaking: Rema breaks King Sunny Ade’s 41-year-old US record

Mavin Records star, Divine Ikubor, popularly known as Rema, has broken legendary musician King Sunny Ade’s 41-year-old record as the Nigerian artiste with the longest-running album in the US Billboard 200 chart’s history.

Recall that King Sunny Ade set the record with his critically-acclaimed album, “Juju Music” in 1982, about 18 years before Rema was born.

The Juju Music album spent 29 weeks on the Billboard 200 and was the longest-running Nigerian project ever in the chart’s history until it was recently displaced by Rema’s debut album ‘Rave & Roses’, which has hit 30th week on the chart this week.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption.