{"id":7547,"slug":"african-chart-share-three-india-treatments-2026","title":"Three ways to treat Spotify’s India chart, and what each does to African music’s measured chart share, 22 September against 17 October 2026","source":"Computed from this desk's african-chart-share-india-corrected-22sep-17oct-2026 table","source_url":"https:\/\/kworb.net\/spotify\/","source_type":"computed","method":"The same numerator of African charted streams on the two endpoint dates, 18,573,383 on 22 September 2026 and 18,045,294 on 17 October 2026, divided by three different denominators. As published is the pool this desk has been using, which counts India's Streams column at 61,000,142 on the first eleven collection dates and at zero on the last nine. India removed drops Spotify's India chart from the pool on every date, so the same 74 charts are compared throughout. India held adds 61,000,142 back on every date, which is the treatment you would use if you believed that figure was a true daily count India produced throughout. change_pct is the 17 October share against the 22 September share. The test is whether the measured direction depends on the treatment, and it does: only the inconsistent treatment produces a rise.","unit":"pct","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":"2026-10-17 08:05:41","n":3,"first_party":0,"columns":[{"key":"treatment","label":"Treatment of the India chart","type":"text"},{"key":"pool_22sep","label":"Charted pool, 22 Sep 2026","type":"number"},{"key":"pool_17oct","label":"Charted pool, 17 Oct 2026","type":"number"},{"key":"share_22sep_pct","label":"African share, 22 Sep %","type":"number"},{"key":"share_17oct_pct","label":"African share, 17 Oct %","type":"number"},{"key":"change_pct","label":"Change over the window, %","type":"number"}],"rows":[{"treatment":"As published: India counted at 61,000,142 on the first eleven dates and at zero on the last nine","pool_22sep":715048251,"pool_17oct":700073676,"share_22sep_pct":2.5975,"share_17oct_pct":2.5776,"change_pct":-0.765},{"treatment":"India removed from the pool on every date","pool_22sep":654048109,"pool_17oct":700073676,"share_22sep_pct":2.8398,"share_17oct_pct":2.5776,"change_pct":-9.231},{"treatment":"India held in the pool at 61,000,142 on every date","pool_22sep":715048251,"pool_17oct":761073818,"share_22sep_pct":2.5975,"share_17oct_pct":2.371,"change_pct":-8.719}]}