{"id":3641,"slug":"african-chart-day-gross-home-vs-export-04-september-2026","title":"African music’s Spotify chart day, home against export, 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":"Three rows summarising the same nine markets as african-chart-day-gross-by-market-04-september-2026. The home row sums african_streams for the four African countries Spotify publishes a daily chart for. The export row sums the five non-African markets that carried any African-origin chart stream on 4 September 2026. The third row is all 75 charts this desk collects, of which 66 carried no African-origin stream at all and therefore contribute nothing. gross_usd is african_streams multiplied by $0.003, that is $3.00 per 1,000 streams, Duetti's published global Spotify payout rate for calendar 2024, held in this desk's duetti-per-stream-rates-2024 dataset. Duetti does not disclose its sample; Spotify disputes that a per-stream rate exists. Each row's gross_usd is rounded to the cent from its own unrounded product, so the home and export rows sum to $42,794.01 against the independently rounded total of $42,794.02. The one-cent gap is rounding and is disclosed rather than forced. The single global rate is the main limit of this comparison and it is not neutral between the two rows: the four home markets are priced below the global Spotify average and the five export markets above it, so applying one blended rate flatters the home row and understates the export row. A market-specific rate, which no platform publishes, would widen the per-stream gap between the two, not narrow it. Chart streams are not consumption. These figures cover only plays of tracks inside a market's daily Top 200 on one date.","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 19:47:14","n":3,"first_party":0,"columns":[{"key":"segment","label":"Segment","type":"text"},{"key":"n_markets","label":"Markets","type":"number"},{"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_streams_pct","label":"Share of African chart streams, %","type":"number"}],"rows":[{"segment":"Inside Africa (Nigeria, Egypt, Morocco, South Africa)","n_markets":4,"african_streams":13932448,"gross_usd":41797.34,"share_of_streams_pct":97.7},{"segment":"Outside Africa (France, Saudi Arabia, Portugal, Netherlands, UAE)","n_markets":5,"african_streams":332224,"gross_usd":996.67,"share_of_streams_pct":2.3},{"segment":"All 75 published Spotify charts","n_markets":75,"african_streams":14264672,"gross_usd":42794.02,"share_of_streams_pct":100}]}