Taylor Swift Makes Spotify History Again

The ‘Cruel Summer’ song garnered 114.6 million followers, breaking Sheeran’s record.

Taylor Swift has become the most popular singer on Spotify.

She surpassed Ed Sheeran, a British singer, to become the most popular artist.

The ‘Cruel Summer’ gained 114.6 million followers, breaking Sheeran’s record.

Swift also has the record for the most costly tour and the highest-grossing music tour in history.

Her ‘Eras’ tour, which grossed more than $1 billion, surpassed British great Elton John’s five-year farewell tour, which earned $939 million (£749 million) across 328 appearances.

Swift set a new Guinness World Record in December 2023 as the first musician to become a billionaire purely through music earnings.

In other news, Rema’s debut album ‘Raves & Roses’ has reached a remarkable milestone, breaking 100 weeks on the Billboard 200 Global Chart, thanks to the mega-hit track ‘Calm Down.’

This achievement puts Rema’s ‘Raves & Roses’ second only to Wizkid’s ‘Made In Lagos,’ which has spent 133 weeks in the charts.

Rema’s recent accomplishment adds to the multiple records he set with ‘Calm Down,’ including a Guinness World Record for being the first song to reach No. 1 on the MENA chart.

‘Calm Down’ has had a huge impact in the United States, attaining the highest peak (#3) for a song by a Nigerian artist on the Billboard Hot 100 and having the longest charting presence (almost 52 weeks) by any Nigerian artist.

Furthermore, ‘Calm Down’ has been certified 4X RIAA Platinum and became the first African song to reach 1 billion streams in the United States, a watershed moment for the Nigerian music business.