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The whole chart row's streams are attributed to that featured artist, on the same basis the desk's lead-artist measure attributes a whole row to its lead. markets counts the charts on which the artist appears this way, export_ columns restrict to the 71 charts outside Egypt, Morocco, Nigeria and South Africa, and tracks counts distinct recordings. These streams are additional to, and never overlap with, the artist's own lead-credited total. Credited featured artists in the collected chart rows carry no Spotify artist id, so each feature name is normalised (accents and punctuation stripped, lower-cased) and matched against the names in this desk's roster of 5,847 charting artists. Only names that resolve to exactly one African country across every roster entry bearing that name are counted, which is 149 names. Normalisation strips every character that is not a Latin letter or digit, so the 165 roster names written wholly in Arabic, Cyrillic, Hebrew or CJK script all reduce to one empty key, which resolves to more than one country and is therefore excluded from matching; exactly one of those 165 names is African. Matching raw unnormalised names instead returns 150 matchable African names and a panel-wide feature total of 5,740,639 rather than 5,539,682, and leaves the export total (3,270,011) and the count of charts carrying an African credit (45) unchanged, so no figure reported from this data depends on the normalisation rule. The measure is nonetheless weakest on North African guest credits. A featured artist who has never charted as a lead is absent from the roster and is therefore not counted at all, so every feature figure here is a floor, not an estimate. Where a track credits more than one African feature, the whole track's streams are attributed once, to the first credited African feature, so no stream is counted twice; that applied to 4 of 151 chart-row observations on 28 September 2026. Chart streams are not total streams: this measures presence inside a market's published daily Top 200, not catalogue consumption. Spotify's own global chart is excluded throughout because it aggregates the country charts.","unit":"","license":"Afrobeats Wire's compilation and analysis are licensed CC BY 4.0. 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