{"id":6050,"slug":"african-credit-home-vs-export-by-basis-28-september-2026","title":"African credit on Spotify’s daily charts, the four African charts against the other 71, 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":"The 28 September 2026 panel split by whether the chart is one of the four African countries Spotify publishes a daily Top 200 for, Egypt, Morocco, Nigeria and South Africa, or one of the other 71. lead_streams is the desk's published measure, feature_streams is the disjoint addition from credited featured artists on rows whose lead is not classified African, feature_multiple_of_lead is the two summed and divided by the lead figure alone, and lead_share_of_credited_pct is how much of the credited total the lead-only measure sees. 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_in_scope is how many of the 75 published country charts fall in each scope: 4 African and 71 other.","unit":"","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 08:02:36","n":2,"first_party":0,"columns":[{"key":"scope","label":"Scope","type":"text"},{"key":"charts_in_scope","label":"Charts in scope","type":"number"},{"key":"lead_streams","label":"African lead-artist streams","type":"number"},{"key":"feature_streams","label":"African featured-credit streams","type":"number"},{"key":"credited_streams","label":"Total with an African credit","type":"number"},{"key":"feature_multiple_of_lead","label":"Credited \/ lead-only","type":"number"},{"key":"lead_share_of_credited_pct","label":"Share the lead-only measure sees, %","type":"number"}],"rows":[{"scope":"The four African charts Spotify publishes","charts_in_scope":4,"lead_streams":19230284,"feature_streams":2269671,"credited_streams":21499955,"feature_multiple_of_lead":1.12,"lead_share_of_credited_pct":89.4},{"scope":"The other 71 country charts","charts_in_scope":71,"lead_streams":276645,"feature_streams":3270011,"credited_streams":3546656,"feature_multiple_of_lead":12.82,"lead_share_of_credited_pct":7.8}]}