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Reviews for the collaboration highlight both its infectious production and its role as a "summery bop". Remaselenagomez
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The collaboration won Best Afrobeats at the 2023 MTV VMAs and was honored as Top Afrobeats Song at the Billboard Music Awards.
It peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and held the No. 1 spot on the Billboard U.S. Afrobeats Songs chart for a record-breaking 34+ weeks.
It was the first African song to surpass 1 billion streams on Spotify.