{"id":6049,"slug":"african-chart-footprint-by-credit-basis-28-september-2026","title":"How many of Spotify’s 75 published daily charts carry an African artist, by which credits are counted, 28 September 2026","source":"kworb.net Spotify daily country charts, artist origin from this desk's MusicBrainz-resolved roster","source_url":"https:\/\/kworb.net\/spotify\/","source_type":"computed","method":"A count of the distinct country charts, out of the 75 Spotify published on 28 September 2026, carrying at least one chart row on which an African artist is credited, under four counting bases. Lead artists only is the measure this desk has published to date. The two exclusion rows drop the named artists from the feature side only; their lead-credited appearances are left in place, which is why the floor is the lead-only count rather than zero. share_of_75_pct is the count against the full panel. Credited featured artists in the collected chart rows carry no Spotify artist id, so each feature name is normalised (accents and punctuation stripped, lower-cased) and matched against the names in this desk's roster of 5,847 charting artists. Only names that resolve to exactly one African country across every roster entry bearing that name are counted, which is 149 names. Normalisation strips every character that is not a Latin letter or digit, so the 165 roster names written wholly in Arabic, Cyrillic, Hebrew or CJK script all reduce to one empty key, which resolves to more than one country and is therefore excluded from matching; exactly one of those 165 names is African. Matching raw unnormalised names instead returns 150 matchable African names and a panel-wide feature total of 5,740,639 rather than 5,539,682, and leaves the export total (3,270,011) and the count of charts carrying an African credit (45) unchanged, so no figure reported from this data depends on the normalisation rule. The measure is nonetheless weakest on North African guest credits. A featured artist who has never charted as a lead is absent from the roster and is therefore not counted at all, so every feature figure here is a floor, not an estimate. Where a track credits more than one African feature, the whole track's streams are attributed once, to the first credited African feature, so no stream is counted twice; that applied to 4 of 151 chart-row observations on 28 September 2026. Chart streams are not total streams: this measures presence inside a market's published daily Top 200, not catalogue consumption. Spotify's own global chart is excluded throughout because it aggregates the country charts. charts_with_none is the panel less the count, and panel_charts is the number of country charts Spotify published that day, which is 75 once its aggregated global chart is set aside.","unit":"charts","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":"2026-09-29 08:02:27","n":4,"first_party":0,"columns":[{"key":"basis","label":"Counting basis","type":"text"},{"key":"charts","label":"Charts carrying an African credit","type":"number"},{"key":"charts_with_none","label":"Charts carrying none","type":"number"},{"key":"panel_charts","label":"Charts in the panel","type":"number"},{"key":"share_of_75_pct","label":"Share of the panel, %","type":"number"}],"rows":[{"basis":"Lead artists only, the desk's published measure","charts":8,"charts_with_none":67,"panel_charts":75,"share_of_75_pct":10.7},{"basis":"Lead artists plus credited features","charts":45,"charts_with_none":30,"panel_charts":75,"share_of_75_pct":60},{"basis":"Lead plus features, excluding Burna Boy's feature credits","charts":32,"charts_with_none":43,"panel_charts":75,"share_of_75_pct":42.7},{"basis":"Lead plus features, excluding Burna Boy, Wizkid and Tems","charts":9,"charts_with_none":66,"panel_charts":75,"share_of_75_pct":12}]}