{"id":3053,"slug":"african-export-column-composition-30-august-2026","title":"Every African artist earning Spotify chart streams outside Africa, 30 August 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 30 August 2026 snapshot of every Spotify daily Top 200 country chart, 76 markets including the excluded aggregated Global chart, 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). 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; streams on the four African charts are excluded. The 13 rows sum to 498,043, which reconciles exactly with the six non-African markets carrying any African artist in this desk's spotify-african-share-by-market dataset for the same date (Saudi Arabia 96,682 + Portugal 171,422 + UAE 14,536 + France 174,272 + Belgium 13,148 + Netherlands 27,983). share_of_export_pct is each artist's share of that 498,043 and cumulative_share_pct is the running total, both to one decimal place; the column sums to 100.1% 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 dataset for 13 August 2026 and this desk's african-export-column-composition-28-august-2026 dataset: totals across the three dates are not directly comparable because origin classifications have been corrected since 13 August and were not backdated, so only the presence or absence of a name is carried across. 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":"2026-08-31 01:49:32","n":13,"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":"Calema","country":"ST","export_streams":115130,"share_of_export_pct":23.1,"cumulative_share_pct":23.1,"export_markets":"PT","n_export_markets":1,"status":"on all three dates (13, 28, 30 Aug)"},{"artist":"DopeNation","country":"GH","export_streams":99946,"share_of_export_pct":20.1,"cumulative_share_pct":43.2,"export_markets":"BE,FR","n_export_markets":2,"status":"on all three dates (13, 28, 30 Aug)"},{"artist":"Soolking","country":"DZ","export_streams":87474,"share_of_export_pct":17.6,"cumulative_share_pct":60.8,"export_markets":"FR","n_export_markets":1,"status":"on all three dates (13, 28, 30 Aug)"},{"artist":"TUL8TE","country":"EG","export_streams":63163,"share_of_export_pct":12.7,"cumulative_share_pct":73.5,"export_markets":"AE,SA","n_export_markets":2,"status":"new since 13 August, carried it on 28 August"},{"artist":"Anselmo Ralph","country":"AO","export_streams":43425,"share_of_export_pct":8.7,"cumulative_share_pct":82.2,"export_markets":"PT","n_export_markets":1,"status":"on all three dates (13, 28, 30 Aug)"},{"artist":"Victony","country":"NG","export_streams":27983,"share_of_export_pct":5.6,"cumulative_share_pct":87.8,"export_markets":"NL","n_export_markets":1,"status":"on all three dates (13, 28, 30 Aug)"},{"artist":"Cairokee","country":"EG","export_streams":16976,"share_of_export_pct":3.4,"cumulative_share_pct":91.2,"export_markets":"SA","n_export_markets":1,"status":"on all three dates (13, 28, 30 Aug)"},{"artist":"Master Jake","country":"AO","export_streams":12867,"share_of_export_pct":2.6,"cumulative_share_pct":93.8,"export_markets":"PT","n_export_markets":1,"status":"on all three dates (13, 28, 30 Aug)"},{"artist":"Mohamed Hamaki","country":"EG","export_streams":9748,"share_of_export_pct":2,"cumulative_share_pct":95.8,"export_markets":"SA","n_export_markets":1,"status":"on all three dates (13, 28, 30 Aug)"},{"artist":"Sherine","country":"EG","export_streams":9247,"share_of_export_pct":1.9,"cumulative_share_pct":97.7,"export_markets":"SA","n_export_markets":1,"status":"on all three dates (13, 28, 30 Aug)"},{"artist":"Amr Diab","country":"EG","export_streams":6185,"share_of_export_pct":1.2,"cumulative_share_pct":98.9,"export_markets":"SA","n_export_markets":1,"status":"on all three dates (13, 28, 30 Aug)"},{"artist":"Marwan Pablo","country":"EG","export_streams":3832,"share_of_export_pct":0.8,"cumulative_share_pct":99.7,"export_markets":"SA","n_export_markets":1,"status":"new since 13 August, carried it on 28 August"},{"artist":"Rema","country":"NG","export_streams":2067,"share_of_export_pct":0.4,"cumulative_share_pct":100.1,"export_markets":"AE","n_export_markets":1,"status":"on 13 August, absent on 28 August, returned 30 August"}]}