{"id":3054,"slug":"african-export-column-series","title":"African artists’ Spotify export column, three collection dates","source":"Computed from this desk's african-export-footprint (13 Aug), african-export-column-composition-28-august-2026 and african-export-column-composition-30-august-2026 datasets","source_url":"https:\/\/kworb.net\/spotify\/","source_type":"computed","method":"Three points, the only dates this desk has a complete artist-level breakdown of chart streams that African-origin artists earned outside Africa's four charted markets (Nigeria, Egypt, Morocco, South Africa). n_artists is the row count of the underlying composition dataset for that date. total_export_streams is that dataset's export_streams column summed. top1_share_pct and top3_share_pct are the largest, and largest three, artists' combined share of that total, read directly from each dataset's own share_of_export_pct and cumulative_share_pct columns rather than recomputed, so they match what was published on each date. top1_artist and top3_artists name who held that position on each date. Origin classifications used for 13 August were not backdated when later corrected, so the three totals are each internally consistent but not built from an identical roster snapshot; this is disclosed rather than smoothed over. Three points is a trend line, not a proof of direction: the gap between collection dates is uneven (15 days, then 2), and there is no date between 13 and 28 August to show whether the fall was gradual or sudden.","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 01:49:33","n":3,"first_party":0,"columns":[{"key":"date","label":"Date","type":"text"},{"key":"n_artists","label":"Artists earning export streams","type":"number"},{"key":"total_export_streams","label":"Total export streams","type":"number"},{"key":"top1_share_pct","label":"Top artist's share, %","type":"number"},{"key":"top1_artist","label":"Top artist","type":"text"},{"key":"top3_share_pct","label":"Top 3 artists' share, %","type":"number"},{"key":"top3_artists","label":"Top 3 artists","type":"text"}],"rows":[{"date":"2026-08-13","n_artists":12,"total_export_streams":455051,"top1_share_pct":25.9,"top1_artist":"DopeNation","top3_share_pct":66.1,"top3_artists":"DopeNation, Calema, Soolking"},{"date":"2026-08-28","n_artists":12,"total_export_streams":443922,"top1_share_pct":21.5,"top1_artist":"Calema","top3_share_pct":57.6,"top3_artists":"Calema, Soolking, DopeNation"},{"date":"2026-08-30","n_artists":13,"total_export_streams":498043,"top1_share_pct":23.1,"top1_artist":"Calema","top3_share_pct":60.8,"top3_artists":"Calema, DopeNation, Soolking"}]}