{"id":6145,"slug":"african-export-credit-gross-by-artist-28-september-2026","title":"Every African artist holding Spotify’s feature-credited export column, priced, 28 September 2026","source":"This desk's african-featured-credit-by-artist-28-september-2026 and african-featured-credit-recordings-28-september-2026, priced at the Spotify rate in this desk's duetti-per-stream-rates-2024","source_url":"","source_type":"computed","method":"Every artist this desk's roster places in an African country who, on 28 September 2026, was credited as a featured performer on a chart row led by an artist the roster does not place in Africa, restricted to the 71 published Spotify country charts outside Egypt, Morocco, Nigeria and South Africa. Five artists meet that test and they account for all 3,270,011 feature-credited export chart streams on the date. export_feature_streams and export_markets are taken unchanged from this desk's african-featured-credit-by-artist-28-september-2026; recording, lead_artist and lead_origin come from african-featured-credit-recordings-28-september-2026. gross_usd multiplies the stream count by $3.00 per 1,000 streams, Duetti's measured global Spotify rate for calendar 2024 as registered in this desk's duetti-per-stream-rates-2024, rounded to the cent. share_of_export_feature_pct is the artist's streams over the 3,270,011 total, so the shares are computed on the exact integer counts rather than on the rounded dollar column, and they sum to 100.1 rather than 100 because each is rounded to one decimal place. The lead artist on every one of the five recordings has a resolved, non-African origin, so none of these rows is a case of the registry failing to place an African lead. Where a row credits more than one African feature the row's streams are attributed once, to the first credited African feature, so no stream is double counted. A featured artist who has never charted as a lead is absent from this desk's roster of 5,847 charting artists and is not counted at all, so this is a floor. Chart streams are not total streams: this prices presence inside a market's published daily Top 200 on the collection date, not catalogue consumption. Gross is what Spotify reports paying rightsholders collectively on those streams. It is not artist income, and on a featured credit it is not even the featured artist's to claim: the recording is the lead artist's, and the featured performer's share of it is a negotiated term this desk holds no dataset for. Duetti does not publish the statements behind its $3.00 rate and this desk has not seen them; Spotify disputes that a fixed per-stream rate exists at all, on the grounds that it pools revenue and pays pro rata.","unit":"usd","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 19:49:03","n":5,"first_party":0,"columns":[{"key":"artist","label":"African artist","type":"text"},{"key":"country","label":"Origin","type":"text"},{"key":"recording","label":"Recording","type":"text"},{"key":"lead_artist","label":"Lead artist","type":"text"},{"key":"lead_origin","label":"Lead artist origin","type":"text"},{"key":"export_feature_streams","label":"Feature-credited chart streams outside Africa","type":"number"},{"key":"export_markets","label":"Charts outside Africa","type":"number"},{"key":"gross_usd","label":"Gross on the recording, USD","type":"number"},{"key":"share_of_export_feature_pct","label":"Share of the feature-credited export column, %","type":"number"}],"rows":[{"artist":"Burna Boy","country":"NG","recording":"Dai Dai","lead_artist":"Shakira","lead_origin":"CO","export_feature_streams":1721817,"export_markets":37,"gross_usd":5165.45,"share_of_export_feature_pct":52.7},{"artist":"Wizkid","country":"NG","recording":"One Dance","lead_artist":"Drake","lead_origin":"CA","export_feature_streams":762010,"export_markets":16,"gross_usd":2286.03,"share_of_export_feature_pct":23.3},{"artist":"Tems","country":"NG","recording":"Raindance","lead_artist":"Dave","lead_origin":"GB","export_feature_streams":629912,"export_markets":26,"gross_usd":1889.74,"share_of_export_feature_pct":19.3},{"artist":"Rema","country":"NG","recording":"Best","lead_artist":"Tiakola","lead_origin":"FR","export_feature_streams":121180,"export_markets":1,"gross_usd":363.54,"share_of_export_feature_pct":3.7},{"artist":"Shallipopi","country":"NG","recording":"ZAAZAA","lead_artist":"Frenna","lead_origin":"NL","export_feature_streams":35092,"export_markets":1,"gross_usd":105.28,"share_of_export_feature_pct":1.1}]}