{"id":8471,"slug":"african-export-footprint-halves-29-october-2026","title":"African music’s Spotify export footprint, first half of the panel versus second, 13 August to 29 October 2026","source":"Computed from this desk's african-presence-over-time series (54 collection dates, 13 August to 29 October 2026)","source_url":"https:\/\/kworb.net\/spotify\/","source_type":"computed","method":"This desk's african-presence-over-time dataset holds one row per collection date, 54 dates from 2026-08-13 to 2026-10-29, each a full sweep of Spotify's published daily Top 200 across every market it charts, with lead-artist origin resolved via MusicBrainz. The 54 dates were split at their midpoint into two equal halves of 27 readings each: 2026-08-13 to 2026-09-25 (first half) and 2026-09-25 to 2026-10-29 (second half, the 25 September reading counted once, in the first half, so the two halves do not double-count it; the second half therefore runs from the reading immediately after it). Each metric is the unweighted mean of that column across the 27 dates in the half. change_pct is (second_half minus first_half) divided by first_half, times 100, computed here rather than in prose.","unit":"mixed","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":"2026-10-30 01:51:45","n":5,"first_party":0,"columns":[{"key":"metric","label":"Metric","type":"text"},{"key":"first_half","label":"First half mean (27 readings)","type":"number"},{"key":"second_half","label":"Second half mean (27 readings)","type":"number"},{"key":"change_pct","label":"Change, %","type":"number"}],"rows":[{"metric":"Share of African-origin chart streams earned outside Africa, %","first_half":2.01,"second_half":1.34,"change_pct":-33.45},{"metric":"Streams African artists earned outside Africa, daily","first_half":348474,"second_half":244215,"change_pct":-29.92},{"metric":"Markets carrying any African artist","first_half":9.3,"second_half":7.78,"change_pct":-16.33},{"metric":"African share of all charted streams, %","first_half":2.33,"second_half":2.53,"change_pct":8.43},{"metric":"African artists charting","first_half":110.96,"second_half":112.04,"change_pct":0.97}]}