Rema Setlist 2026 — Songs, Order & Running Time

Rema setlist — HEIS era, song by song

The Rave & Roses Tour established the template and the HEIS era refined it: a roughly 80-to-100-minute run, 18 to 24 songs, no extended opening act on most arena nights — a DJ warm-up typically handles the front of the room — and a show built around three braided eras rather than a chronological greatest-hits march. The HEIS block opens the night on most dates. Lights drop, the percussion line walks out first under a recorded Edo-language interlude — sometimes a sampled bata drum loop, sometimes a Benin Kingdom historical voiceover — before Ozeba or March Am or HEHEHE detonates the room with the bat-and-crown visual at full LED width. Trouble Maker and Benin Boys land early-to-mid in the opening block when Shallipopi is not on the bill (the Benin Boys live arrangement keeps Shallipopi's verse on playback if he's not present, with Rema covering the back-and-forth). The Rave & Roses middle hour is the heaviest singalong stretch: Holiday holds the longest extended outro on most nights, with Rema stepping back and letting the audience carry the chorus for 30 to 45 seconds at a time; Reason You and Are You There land back-to-back as the slower romantic block; Soundgasm and Charm pull the tempo back up for the perreo-adjacent dance run; Time N Affection and Dirty get the late-night Afroswing crowd locked in. A brief audio interlude — typically a recorded Mavin Records label montage or an Edo masquerade audio sample over field-recorded Benin City street sound — pivots the show into the early-singles deep-catalog block and gives the live band 60 to 90 seconds to reset. Iron Man and Dumebi open the deep-catalog block and pull the loudest singalong of the night for fans who came in on the 2019 rollout — these are the cuts that turned Rema into a global name before Calm Down, and the crowd treats them as ritual. Bad Commando and Beamer (Bad Boys) and Bounce fold into the early-era finale. Calm Down lands late — typically two or three songs from the encore on most arena nights and as the encore closer at festivals — with the full extended outro, the Selena Gomez bilingual remix vocal layered into the playback on some dates and stripped on others depending on the crowd response. The encore typically runs two to four cuts: a HEIS statement closer (Egungun or Benin Boys reprise or a HEIS deep cut) with the full Benin Kingdom visual at stage width and the bat-and-crown logo at the LED ribbon through the final bars. Total run time clocks 80 to 100 minutes including the encore on a standard arena headline. Festival sets compress to 45 to 60 minutes and lead heavier on Calm Down, Holiday, Iron Man, Dumebi, and the HEIS singles, cutting the slower Rave & Roses ballads and the longest extended outros for production-cue reasons. For the exact setlist at a specific Rema show, setlist.fm posts crowd-submitted song-by-song lists within hours of the encore.

Rema 2026 Tour Setlist Structure

Rema, the Nigerian afrobeats act, has no confirmed dates on sale right now, so the song order below reflects how afrobeats headline sets of this size are typically paced.

Recent Rema concerts have averaged between 18 and 24 songs spread across roughly 90 to 120 minutes of performance time (excluding opener). The shows typically follow this rough structure:

1. Opener (song 1 to 2). A high-energy hit to set the tone.
2. Hit block (song 3 to 7). A run of the most-streamed singles.
3. Acoustic / storytelling moment (song 8 to 10). Stripped-back arrangements and banter.
4. Deep-cut set (song 11 to 15). Fan favorites and newer album tracks.
5. Peak run (song 16 to 20). The dancefloor anthems and biggest singalongs.
6. Encore (song 21 to 24). A 2 to 3 song encore featuring the signature closer.

Does the Rema Setlist Change Night to Night?

The core of the Rema 2026 setlist — the singles and the staging — stays consistent across the tour so production cues work from night to night. Smaller changes (a deep cut swap, a city-specific cover, or an acoustic surprise) happen on some nights. For the exact setlist from a specific Rema show, check fan-submitted setlists on Setlist.fm after the concert.

Rema Setlist — FAQ

About Rema

Divine Ikubor was born May 1, 2000 in Benin City, the capital of Edo State in southern Nigeria, the youngest of four children in a household that lost his father early and his elder brother shortly after — losses that recur openly across his catalogue as a thematic spine and that shape the way he writes about family, faith, and the cost of survival. He grew up in the Benin City suburb of Egor, attended Avillon Royal Academy in the city, and learned to sing and rap in church and in school competitions through his teenage years. He moved to Ghana briefly before returning to Nigeria, and in 2018 posted a freestyle over D'Prince's track Gucci Gang to Instagram. D'Prince — the Mavin Records co-founder and the brother of Don Jazzy — saw the clip, flew Rema to Lagos for an audition, and signed him to the Mavin-backed imprint Jonzing World in early 2019. The self-titled Rema EP arrived in March 2019 and put Iron Man and Dumebi into rotation across Nigerian radio and the West African streaming charts inside weeks; Iron Man got pulled onto Barack Obama's 2019 summer playlist, which sent the song into the global Afrobeats conversation almost overnight. Two follow-up EPs in 2019 — Freestyle EP and Bad Commando — kept the rollout moving without committing to a full-length, and the Bad Commando title cut and Beamer (Bad Boys) extended the early signature. Rave & Roses arrived in March 2022 as his official debut studio album: 16 tracks across Afrobeats, dancehall, hip-hop, trap, and a self-coined micro-genre he labeled Afrorave, with Calm Down as the lead single. The song was already climbing on Nigerian and UK Afroswing radio when Selena Gomez recorded a remix in August 2022, and the bilingual remix detonated globally — multiple billions of streams across platforms, dozens of weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, the first song by an African solo artist to cross a billion Spotify streams, and the first Afrobeats song to crack the top three of the Hot 100. The Rave & Roses Tour scaled from clubs and theatres into arenas through 2022 and 2023, culminating in a Madison Square Garden headline in August 2023 — the first Nigerian artist to solo-headline the room. The follow-up HEIS dropped in July 2024 — eleven tracks, lean and dense, with Ozeba, Hehehe, Benin Boys with Shallipopi, and Trouble Maker as the standout cuts — and signaled a refusal to repeat the Calm Down crossover formula. He has been Mavin Records throughout, working primarily with producers London (Andre Vibez), P.Priime, Magicsticks, Altims, and Deatsbylondon, with executive direction from Don Jazzy and D'Prince. The Edo and Bini cultural references — masks, pre-colonial Benin Kingdom iconography, the bat-and-crown visual signature — sit throughout his branding and the live production.

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