{"id":2350,"slug":"african-catalogue-deal-usd-price-concentration","title":"Concentration of the disclosed-in-USD portion of African music deal prices, 2018-2026","source":"The four deals in this desk's record, out of six total price disclosures, that were stated in US dollars. Two further disclosures (EUR 30,000,000 for Trace, DKK 8,905,738 for Mdundo) are excluded here rather than converted, because this desk does not estimate a historical FX rate to force them into a common currency.","source_url":"https:\/\/afrobeatswire.com\/deals\/","source_type":"computed","method":"The four USD-denominated full price disclosures in the six-row disclosed-prices dataset, summed to USD 838,892,734, with each row's share of that total computed directly (amount_usd \/ 838,892,734 * 100, one decimal place).","unit":"usd","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":"high","retrieved":"2026-08-23 10:47:36","n":4,"first_party":0,"columns":[{"key":"deal","label":"Deal","type":"text"},{"key":"amount_usd","label":"Amount, USD","type":"number"},{"key":"share_pct","label":"Share of the USD total, %","type":"number"}],"rows":[{"deal":"Boomplay Series A","amount_usd":20000000,"share_pct":2.4},{"deal":"OSN \/ Anghami equity control","amount_usd":38000000,"share_pct":4.5},{"deal":"Virgin Music Group \/ Downtown Music Holdings","amount_usd":775000000,"share_pct":92.4},{"deal":"Reservoir-PopArabia \/ Viral Wave","amount_usd":5892734,"share_pct":0.7}]}