{"id":10335,"slug":"african-chart-breadth-reading-distribution-13aug-14nov-2026","title":"How many of Spotify’s published daily charts carried an African artist, by reading, 13 August to 14 November 2026","source":"This desk's own african-presence-over-time series, 62 collection dates from 13 August to 14 November 2026","source_url":"","source_type":"computed","method":"Every one of the 62 readings in this desk's african-presence-over-time series was grouped by the value of its markets_charting column, which counts the published Spotify country charts carrying at least one lead artist of African origin on that collection date. One row per distinct value. 'Readings' counts the collection dates at that value, 'share_of_readings_pct' is that count over 62 rounded to one decimal place, and first_date and last_date are the earliest and latest collection dates at which that value was recorded. Spotify's global chart is excluded because it aggregates the country charts. Collection dates are not evenly spaced, so these are counts of readings and not counts of days, and a missing date is a gap in collection rather than a zero. Origin is applied as currently registered to every date in the series. cum_readings_at_or_below is the running total of readings at that value or any lower value, so the row for 8 charts states how many of the 62 readings recorded 8 charts or fewer.","unit":"count","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":"2026-11-15 13:53:38","n":6,"first_party":0,"columns":[{"key":"markets_charting","label":"Charts carrying an African artist","type":"number"},{"key":"readings","label":"Readings at that value","type":"number"},{"key":"share_of_readings_pct","label":"Share of the 62 readings, %","type":"number"},{"key":"first_date","label":"First recorded","type":"text"},{"key":"last_date","label":"Last recorded","type":"text"},{"key":"cum_readings_at_or_below","label":"Readings at that value or lower","type":"number"}],"rows":[{"markets_charting":7,"readings":9,"share_of_readings_pct":14.5,"first_date":"2026-09-30","last_date":"2026-11-14","cum_readings_at_or_below":9},{"markets_charting":8,"readings":37,"share_of_readings_pct":59.7,"first_date":"2026-09-06","last_date":"2026-11-11","cum_readings_at_or_below":46},{"markets_charting":9,"readings":5,"share_of_readings_pct":8.1,"first_date":"2026-08-25","last_date":"2026-10-12","cum_readings_at_or_below":51},{"markets_charting":10,"readings":4,"share_of_readings_pct":6.5,"first_date":"2026-08-27","last_date":"2026-09-02","cum_readings_at_or_below":55},{"markets_charting":11,"readings":5,"share_of_readings_pct":8.1,"first_date":"2026-08-17","last_date":"2026-08-31","cum_readings_at_or_below":60},{"markets_charting":12,"readings":2,"share_of_readings_pct":3.2,"first_date":"2026-08-13","last_date":"2026-08-24","cum_readings_at_or_below":62}]}