{"id":3600,"slug":"african-artist-single-market-share-series-aug-sep-2026","title":"Share of African artists appearing on exactly one Spotify chart, 14 collection dates, 13 August to 4 September 2026","source":"kworb.net Spotify daily country charts, artist origin from MusicBrainz","source_url":"https:\/\/kworb.net\/spotify\/","source_type":"computed","method":"Every entry on Spotify's published daily Top 200 in the 75 country charts was collected from the dated snapshot held by this desk. Spotify's aggregate global chart is excluded, because it is not a market. Each entry was credited to its lead artist only; featured credits are not counted toward the featured artist. Artist origin was resolved against MusicBrainz, preferring the artist MusicBrainz links to that exact Spotify profile and falling back to a documented manual override with published evidence where no link exists. Artists MusicBrainz cannot place are excluded rather than assumed African. For each African-origin artist the number of distinct country charts carrying at least one of their tracks that day was counted, and their chart streams summed across those charts. Chart streams are a sample of consumption, not a full accounting: they cover only tracks inside a market's top 200 on a single day, so an artist with real demand spread below position 200 in many markets registers here as absent. The same count was then repeated on each of the 14 dated snapshots this desk holds between 13 August and 4 September 2026. Collection is not daily and the gaps are uneven, so this is a series of 14 observations rather than a continuous record. Each date is computed independently from its own snapshot; no value is carried forward.","unit":"","license":"Afrobeats Wire's compilation and analysis are licensed CC BY 4.0. Rights in the underlying source data remain with the source named above.","confidence":"medium","retrieved":"2026-09-05 07:49:23","n":14,"first_party":0,"columns":[{"key":"date","label":"Date","type":"text"},{"key":"markets_published","label":"Charts published","type":"number"},{"key":"african_artists","label":"African artists charting","type":"number"},{"key":"single_market_artists","label":"On exactly one chart","type":"number"},{"key":"single_market_artist_pct","label":"Share of artists %","type":"number"},{"key":"single_market_stream_pct","label":"Share of their streams %","type":"number"},{"key":"max_markets_any_artist","label":"Widest artist that day","type":"number"}],"rows":[{"date":"2026-08-13","markets_published":75,"african_artists":92,"single_market_artists":80,"single_market_artist_pct":87,"single_market_stream_pct":78.1,"max_markets_any_artist":5},{"date":"2026-08-17","markets_published":75,"african_artists":95,"single_market_artists":84,"single_market_artist_pct":88.4,"single_market_stream_pct":83.9,"max_markets_any_artist":5},{"date":"2026-08-20","markets_published":75,"african_artists":96,"single_market_artists":83,"single_market_artist_pct":86.5,"single_market_stream_pct":70.3,"max_markets_any_artist":4},{"date":"2026-08-21","markets_published":75,"african_artists":98,"single_market_artists":87,"single_market_artist_pct":88.8,"single_market_stream_pct":74.9,"max_markets_any_artist":4},{"date":"2026-08-22","markets_published":75,"african_artists":99,"single_market_artists":87,"single_market_artist_pct":87.9,"single_market_stream_pct":72.2,"max_markets_any_artist":4},{"date":"2026-08-24","markets_published":75,"african_artists":100,"single_market_artists":89,"single_market_artist_pct":89,"single_market_stream_pct":74.4,"max_markets_any_artist":5},{"date":"2026-08-25","markets_published":75,"african_artists":100,"single_market_artists":88,"single_market_artist_pct":88,"single_market_stream_pct":72.7,"max_markets_any_artist":4},{"date":"2026-08-27","markets_published":75,"african_artists":98,"single_market_artists":85,"single_market_artist_pct":86.7,"single_market_stream_pct":70.9,"max_markets_any_artist":4},{"date":"2026-08-28","markets_published":75,"african_artists":100,"single_market_artists":87,"single_market_artist_pct":87,"single_market_stream_pct":70.4,"max_markets_any_artist":3},{"date":"2026-08-30","markets_published":75,"african_artists":99,"single_market_artists":87,"single_market_artist_pct":87.9,"single_market_stream_pct":74.6,"max_markets_any_artist":4},{"date":"2026-08-31","markets_published":75,"african_artists":99,"single_market_artists":86,"single_market_artist_pct":86.9,"single_market_stream_pct":72.7,"max_markets_any_artist":5},{"date":"2026-09-01","markets_published":75,"african_artists":98,"single_market_artists":87,"single_market_artist_pct":88.8,"single_market_stream_pct":78.1,"max_markets_any_artist":4},{"date":"2026-09-02","markets_published":75,"african_artists":100,"single_market_artists":88,"single_market_artist_pct":88,"single_market_stream_pct":73.4,"max_markets_any_artist":4},{"date":"2026-09-04","markets_published":75,"african_artists":101,"single_market_artists":88,"single_market_artist_pct":87.1,"single_market_stream_pct":73.4,"max_markets_any_artist":4}]}