Rema announced on Monday (July 8) that he will be releasing his second album, THAT'S HIM, on Friday July 11.
He shared an animation of himself wearing a gold, emerald embellished bat chain, with bats flying around him in his fiery surroundings. “second album 'HEIS' 7/11,” he captioned the clip with the bat and blood-spitting emojis.
The Afrorave superstar (real name Divine Ikubor) dropped the Shallipopi-assisted single “Benin Boys” last month, which debuted at No. 13 on Advertising signLast week's US Afrobeats Songs chart (dated July 6). He also released the single “HEHEHE” on Sunday July 7th. Rema released his debut album, Rave & Rosesin March 2022, which included his breakthrough smash “Calm Down” which later received a remix with Selena Gomez.
“Calm Down” reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and topped the US Afrobeats Songs (for a record 58 weeks), Adult Pop Airplay (two weeks), Pop Airplay (five weeks), Rhythmic Airplay (four weeks) and Worldwide Digital Song Sales (32 weeks). It won Best Afrobeats Song at the 2023 Billboard Music Awards, Best Collaboration at the 2024 iHeartRadio Music Awards, and Best Afrobeats at the 2023 MTV Music Awards, among many other honors.
From Rave & Roses, Rema released one Ravage EP and collaborated with many artists such as Ice Spice, performing their track “Pretty Girl” together for the first time on Saturday night live in October, and Feid, earning Rema his first chart appearance and No. 1 on Latin Airplay earlier in the year.
Check out Rema's THAT'S HIM the album announcement below.
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