{"id":6146,"slug":"african-export-lead-gross-nigerian-cascade-band-sep-2026","title":"The lead-credited African export column carried through one documented Nigerian cascade, 20 collection dates, 1 to 28 September 2026","source":"This desk's african-export-credit-gross-by-date-01-to-28-september-2026 gross, split at the rates in this desk's nigeria-distribution-cascade-example","source_url":"","source_type":"computed","method":"$18,338.06 is the 20-date gross on chart streams outside Africa on recordings an African artist leads, the sum of the lead_gross_usd column in this desk's african-export-credit-gross-by-date-01-to-28-september-2026. Each row applies one of the four artist-share percentages in this desk's nigeria-distribution-cascade-example, which traces N100 of platform revenue through a named Nigerian label and distributor chain in a single published investigation. That is one worked example for one artist, not a survey: label, manager and distributor splits are negotiated case by case and no African artist in this export column is known by this desk to be on these terms. The band is published as a band for exactly that reason. It is applied only to the lead-credited column, where the African artist owns the recording. It is deliberately not applied to the feature-credited column, because a featured performer's share of a lead artist's master is a contractual term this desk holds no measurement of, and multiplying someone else's master by a Nigerian artist-royalty rate would invent a number. The cascade rates are drawn from Nigerian telco-bundled and app-based routes and the lead-credited export column is not wholly Nigerian, which is a second reason to read every row here as an order of magnitude and not a payout. 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":"low","retrieved":"2026-09-29 19:49:05","n":4,"first_party":0,"columns":[{"key":"scenario","label":"Cascade scenario","type":"text"},{"key":"path","label":"Money path","type":"text"},{"key":"artist_share_pct","label":"Artist's share of gross, %","type":"number"},{"key":"gross_usd_20day","label":"Lead-credited export gross, 20 dates, USD","type":"number"},{"key":"artist_usd_20day","label":"Reaching the artist across all 20 dates, USD","type":"number"}],"rows":[{"scenario":"Telco-bundled platform, through a label and manager","path":"MTN Music Plus, then Freeme Digital, then record label, then artist, then manager","artist_share_pct":5.1,"gross_usd_20day":18338.06,"artist_usd_20day":935.24},{"scenario":"App-based platform, through a label and manager","path":"Boomplay or Cloud9, then distributor, then record label, then artist, then manager","artist_share_pct":7.5,"gross_usd_20day":18338.06,"artist_usd_20day":1375.35},{"scenario":"Telco-bundled platform, artist bypasses the label","path":"MTN Music Plus, then artist direct","artist_share_pct":20,"gross_usd_20day":18338.06,"artist_usd_20day":3667.61},{"scenario":"App-based platform, artist bypasses the label","path":"Boomplay or Cloud9, then artist direct","artist_share_pct":25,"gross_usd_20day":18338.06,"artist_usd_20day":4584.52}]}