{"id":3455,"slug":"african-export-column-composition-04-september-2026","title":"Every African artist earning Spotify chart streams outside Africa, 4 September 2026","source":"kworb.net Spotify daily country charts, artist origin from MusicBrainz and this desk's editorial overrides","source_url":"https:\/\/kworb.net\/spotify\/","source_type":"computed","method":"From this desk's 4 September 2026 snapshot of every Spotify daily Top 200 country chart, 75 markets, every chart entry was credited in full to its lead artist, and the lead artist's country of origin taken from this desk's roster (MusicBrainz where a Spotify artist URL is linked to a MusicBrainz artist, editorial override with named evidence where it is not; Anselmo Ralph and Master Jake are both confirmed Angolan artists with no chart presence on any African market in this panel, verified against independent biographical sources, and are correctly counted here as pure exporters, not roster errors). Rows are every artist of African origin with one or more streams on a chart outside the four African markets Spotify publishes a chart for (Nigeria, Egypt, Morocco, South Africa). export_streams is that artist's total across non-African charts only. Two of these eleven artists, Anselmo Ralph and Master Jake, do not place in this desk's top-50 spotify-african-artists-global dataset because that dataset is capped to the 50 highest daily-stream African artists globally and their total streams (41,835 and 11,628) fall just below that cut; both are retained here because this dataset's population is every African-origin artist with export streams, not the top 50. The 11 rows sum to 332,224, which reconciles exactly with the five non-African markets carrying any African artist in this desk's spotify-african-share-by-market dataset for the same date (Saudi Arabia 97,136 + United Arab Emirates 12,174 + Portugal 53,463 + France 144,531 + Netherlands 24,920). share_of_export_pct is each artist's share of that 332,224 and cumulative_share_pct is the running total, both to one decimal place; the column sums to 99.9% rather than 100.0% because of that per-row rounding, which is disclosed here rather than forced to reconcile. status compares membership against this desk's african-export-footprint (13 Aug), african-export-column-composition-28-august-2026 and african-export-column-composition-30-august-2026 datasets. This counts chart presence, not consumption: an artist with a large audience in a market who does not reach that market's Top 200 records zero here.","unit":"streams","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":"2026-09-04 01:59:50","n":11,"first_party":0,"columns":[{"key":"artist","label":"Artist","type":"text"},{"key":"country","label":"Origin","type":"text"},{"key":"export_streams","label":"Streams outside Africa","type":"number"},{"key":"share_of_export_pct","label":"Share of the export column, %","type":"number"},{"key":"cumulative_share_pct","label":"Cumulative share, %","type":"number"},{"key":"export_markets","label":"Non-African charts","type":"text"},{"key":"n_export_markets","label":"Number of charts","type":"number"},{"key":"status","label":"Status vs earlier dates","type":"text"}],"rows":[{"artist":"Soolking","country":"DZ","export_streams":73032,"share_of_export_pct":22,"cumulative_share_pct":22,"export_markets":"FR","n_export_markets":1,"status":"on all four dates (13, 28, 30 Aug, 4 Sep)"},{"artist":"DopeNation","country":"GH","export_streams":71499,"share_of_export_pct":21.5,"cumulative_share_pct":43.5,"export_markets":"FR","n_export_markets":1,"status":"on all four dates (13, 28, 30 Aug, 4 Sep); lost its BE chart entry since 30 Aug"},{"artist":"TUL8TE","country":"EG","export_streams":68901,"share_of_export_pct":20.7,"cumulative_share_pct":64.2,"export_markets":"AE,SA","n_export_markets":2,"status":"on all four dates (13, 28, 30 Aug, 4 Sep)"},{"artist":"Anselmo Ralph","country":"AO","export_streams":41835,"share_of_export_pct":12.6,"cumulative_share_pct":76.8,"export_markets":"PT","n_export_markets":1,"status":"on all four dates (13, 28, 30 Aug, 4 Sep)"},{"artist":"Victony","country":"NG","export_streams":24920,"share_of_export_pct":7.5,"cumulative_share_pct":84.3,"export_markets":"NL","n_export_markets":1,"status":"on all four dates (13, 28, 30 Aug, 4 Sep)"},{"artist":"Master Jake","country":"AO","export_streams":11628,"share_of_export_pct":3.5,"cumulative_share_pct":87.8,"export_markets":"PT","n_export_markets":1,"status":"on all four dates (13, 28, 30 Aug, 4 Sep)"},{"artist":"Cairokee","country":"EG","export_streams":10657,"share_of_export_pct":3.2,"cumulative_share_pct":91,"export_markets":"SA","n_export_markets":1,"status":"on all four dates (13, 28, 30 Aug, 4 Sep)"},{"artist":"Mohamed Hamaki","country":"EG","export_streams":9380,"share_of_export_pct":2.8,"cumulative_share_pct":93.8,"export_markets":"SA","n_export_markets":1,"status":"on all four dates (13, 28, 30 Aug, 4 Sep)"},{"artist":"Sherine","country":"EG","export_streams":9362,"share_of_export_pct":2.8,"cumulative_share_pct":96.6,"export_markets":"SA","n_export_markets":1,"status":"on all four dates (13, 28, 30 Aug, 4 Sep)"},{"artist":"Amr Diab","country":"EG","export_streams":6372,"share_of_export_pct":1.9,"cumulative_share_pct":98.5,"export_markets":"SA","n_export_markets":1,"status":"on all four dates (13, 28, 30 Aug, 4 Sep)"},{"artist":"Marwan Pablo","country":"EG","export_streams":4638,"share_of_export_pct":1.4,"cumulative_share_pct":99.9,"export_markets":"SA","n_export_markets":1,"status":"on all four dates (13, 28, 30 Aug, 4 Sep)"}]}