{"id":3639,"slug":"african-chart-day-gross-by-market-04-september-2026","title":"What a day of African chart streams is worth on Spotify, by market, 4 September 2026","source":"Computed from this desk's spotify-african-share-by-market dataset for 4 September 2026 and the Spotify 2024 row of duetti-per-stream-rates-2024","source_url":"","source_type":"computed","method":"Rows are the nine markets, of the 75 Spotify publishes a daily Top 200 for and this desk collects, that carried any African-origin artist's chart streams on 4 September 2026. african_streams for each market is that market's african_streams value taken unchanged from this desk's spotify-african-share-by-market dataset for the same date; the nine sum to 14,264,672, and the other 66 markets carried zero. gross_usd is african_streams multiplied by $0.003, which is $3.00 per 1,000 streams, the global Spotify payout rate published by catalogue-investment firm Duetti for calendar 2024 and held in this desk's duetti-per-stream-rates-2024 dataset. That rate is a global blend derived from royalty statements Duetti reviews; Duetti does not disclose the sample behind it, Spotify disputes that any per-stream rate exists on the grounds that it pools revenue and pays pro rata, and this desk has not seen the underlying statements. The blend is also not market-specific, and its error runs in opposite directions on this table: Nigeria, Egypt, Morocco and South Africa are all lower-priced Spotify markets than the global average, so their true rate is very likely below $0.003, while France, the Netherlands and Portugal are higher-priced, so theirs is very likely above it. Every gross_usd figure is therefore an ordering of magnitudes at one published rate, not a receipt, and the home-market rows are more likely to be overstated than the export rows. gross_usd is rounded to the cent from the unrounded product for each row independently; the nine rows sum to $42,794.02, which matches the independently rounded product of the 14,264,672 total. share_of_gross_pct is each market's african_streams divided by 14,264,672, to one decimal place; the column sums to 100.1 rather than 100.0 because of that per-row rounding, disclosed here rather than forced to reconcile. segment marks whether the market is one of the four African countries Spotify publishes a chart for or one of the 71 others. This is chart presence, not consumption: streams from a track outside a market's daily Top 200 count zero here, so every figure is a floor on what that market's African listening is worth, not a total.","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":"medium","retrieved":"2026-09-05 19:47:12","n":9,"first_party":0,"columns":[{"key":"market","label":"Market","type":"text"},{"key":"iso2","label":"ISO","type":"text"},{"key":"segment","label":"Segment","type":"text"},{"key":"african_streams","label":"African-origin chart streams","type":"number"},{"key":"gross_usd","label":"Gross USD at $3.00 per 1,000","type":"number"},{"key":"share_of_gross_pct","label":"Share of the day's gross, %","type":"number"}],"rows":[{"market":"Nigeria","iso2":"NG","segment":"Home","african_streams":9874805,"gross_usd":29624.42,"share_of_gross_pct":69.2},{"market":"Egypt","iso2":"EG","segment":"Home","african_streams":2661959,"gross_usd":7985.88,"share_of_gross_pct":18.7},{"market":"Morocco","iso2":"MA","segment":"Home","african_streams":788767,"gross_usd":2366.3,"share_of_gross_pct":5.5},{"market":"South Africa","iso2":"ZA","segment":"Home","african_streams":606917,"gross_usd":1820.75,"share_of_gross_pct":4.3},{"market":"France","iso2":"FR","segment":"Export","african_streams":144531,"gross_usd":433.59,"share_of_gross_pct":1},{"market":"Saudi Arabia","iso2":"SA","segment":"Export","african_streams":97136,"gross_usd":291.41,"share_of_gross_pct":0.7},{"market":"Portugal","iso2":"PT","segment":"Export","african_streams":53463,"gross_usd":160.39,"share_of_gross_pct":0.4},{"market":"Netherlands","iso2":"NL","segment":"Export","african_streams":24920,"gross_usd":74.76,"share_of_gross_pct":0.2},{"market":"United Arab Emirates","iso2":"AE","segment":"Export","african_streams":12174,"gross_usd":36.52,"share_of_gross_pct":0.1}]}