{"id":7427,"slug":"african-export-markets-16-october-2026","title":"The three Spotify charts outside Africa carrying an African artist, 16 October 2026","source":"Computed from this desk's own spotify-african-share-by-market build of the 16 October 2026 Spotify daily country-chart panel","source_url":"","source_type":"computed","method":"Population: all 74 markets in this desk's registered spotify-african-share-by-market build for 16 October 2026, drawn from Spotify's published daily country Top 200 charts. Filter: markets outside Africa with african_streams greater than zero. Three qualified: Saudi Arabia, Portugal and the United Arab Emirates. african_streams, chart_streams, african_share_pct and african_artists are copied unchanged from that build. share_of_export_pct is each market's african_streams divided by 169,712, the whole-panel export total recorded for 2026-10-16 in this desk's african-presence-over-time series. The three african_streams values sum to exactly 169,712, so this is the complete list and not a top three. Excluded: Nigeria, Egypt, Morocco and South Africa, the four African charts Spotify publishes, which are counted as home rather than export; and the 67 remaining markets on the panel, which recorded zero African-origin charted streams on the date. african_artists counts distinct African-origin artists on that market's chart and the three values do not sum to eight, because three artists charted in both Gulf markets.","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":"high","retrieved":"2026-10-16 07:47:34","n":3,"first_party":0,"columns":[{"key":"market","label":"Market","type":"text"},{"key":"african_streams","label":"African-origin streams","type":"number"},{"key":"share_of_export_pct","label":"Share of export column (%)","type":"number"},{"key":"african_artists","label":"African artists on chart","type":"number"},{"key":"chart_streams","label":"Total charted streams in market","type":"number"},{"key":"african_share_pct","label":"African share of that chart (%)","type":"number"}],"rows":[{"market":"Saudi Arabia","african_streams":122555,"share_of_export_pct":72.21,"african_artists":7,"chart_streams":1122333,"african_share_pct":10.92},{"market":"Portugal","african_streams":27703,"share_of_export_pct":16.32,"african_artists":1,"chart_streams":3258983,"african_share_pct":0.85},{"market":"United Arab Emirates","african_streams":19454,"share_of_export_pct":11.46,"african_artists":3,"chart_streams":696861,"african_share_pct":2.79}]}